![]() This includes 289 developed recreation areas onĦ.5 million acres of land and water in 17 western states for water-based outdoor recreation including camping (350 campgrounds), fishing, boating (1,000 boat launch ramps), swimming (140 swimming beaches), bird and wildlife viewing, and sightseeing. US BUREAU OF RECLAMATION Reclamation manages, develops, and protects water and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound manner. (photo – Hood Park, Ice Harbor Dam, Snake River, Pasco, WA). ![]() Click the “Camping” box and the resulting map will display all the Corps properties in the state along with camping facilities along with those that allow boondocking. On the Corps Web site map, click on the state on the map you are interested in for the USACE locations. Recreation at Corps locations can include fishing, boating, water sports, and camping. US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS (USACE) The Corps manages and conserves the land and waters of several water resource projects and provides public recreation opportunities in all states. You will find the NG page on the Forest Service website. If you are passing near a NG, check it out for recreational and camping possibilities. Camping and boondocking is limited on NG, though some do have primitive camping. The largest is the sprawling one million plus acres of the Little Missouri NG in North Dakota (photo above) and the smallest the 1,449-acre McClellan Creek in Texas. NATIONAL GRASSLANDS (NG) The 20 National Grasslands administered by the Forest Service cover nearly four million acres of waving fields and rolling hills of prairie grasses in thirteen states, with more than 82% of the total land area in nine of the NG located in the Great Plains states of Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. These public lands are also open for boondocking, though with varying restrictions from one to the other. And assuming you wouldn’t perform any of those evil deeds, I would like to show you some additional public lands–other than the well known BLM and Forest Service land–that you may not have thought about. ![]() In last week’s post, Do you follow the responsible–but unwritten–rules of boondocking?I wrote about the responsibilities of boondockers, common sense rules of camping in nature where there isn’t an official or ranger looking over your shoulder to make sure you don’t pollute, trash the area, destroy the natural features, or any other clueless activity that some (not you, of course) public lands users do.īut that’s the end of that lecture. If camping is not permitted it would most likely be signed. That is a clue to whether camping is allowed. However, be on the lookout as you travel for signed game and fish areas or places marked as fishing access and look for signs of previous campers. A few quaking aspen still boasted golden leaves, enhancing the beauty of the scene.Like state parks and forests, these state agencies have to be individually checked by state. Below us was a majestic, sweeping bend of the Snake River, with open flats and brushy meadows giving way to talus slopes on the mountainsides across the way. We camped in the third "group" of sites, in our case, two spots, in late October 2015. Google Map view of Grassy Lake Campsite Group 3 Each has a fire ring, picnic table, bear boxes and bear-proof trash containers, and each cluster has a modern design vault toilet. ![]() The sites are free and open until the road is closed by heavy snow. There a few scenic pulloffs and unpaved access roads into the Bridger-Teton and Targhee national forests, but few visitors tarry as they focused on the well-known destinations in the two national parks.īut tucked off a gravel Grassy Lake Road on the west side of the parkway, a few miles beyond the Flagg Ranch concessionaire campground and cabins, are twenty rustic, first-come, first-served campsites, many of which are sited on a terrace just above the young Snake River which rises just a few miles northeast. Memorial Parkway is just a highway between Yellowstone National Park's South Entrance and Grand Teton National Park.
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