by Mary Caperton Morton Thursday, May 24, 2018
Credit: Mary Caperton Morton
When I drove this loop around Wyoming last spring, I did it in 10 days, camped out every night and didn’t pay for a single campsite. Wyoming is replete with public land: Nearly half of the state’s lands are held by the federal government and managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. Travelers are free to camp on BLM lands or national grasslands or in national forests, a practice known as dispersed camping, boondocking or coyote camping. You can stay in one site up to 14 days, but you must honor “Leave No Trace” ethics: After you leave your campsite, there should be no trace that you were ever there.
Respect private property and keep an eye out for forest roads and existing fire rings and your Wyoming vacation will be a little wilder and a lot cheaper!
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