Scoop & Dude
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The places come from volunteers. They're from OpenStreetMap, a free map kept by volunteers (our copy is refreshed every week), and tags like fee and dogs can be missing or out of date. “Listed free” means a volunteer marked the site as no fee. Treat this as a starting point, and check the rules before you camp or sleep at a rest stop.

Which way is the good weather?

We check the National Weather Service's next 3 days where the map is centered, and at 8 spots a day's drive away in every direction, and rate each one for camping.

Checking around the map's town (change the town on the map above)
Which way to go

The weather check starts when you scroll here.

How the rating works

It's a rule of thumb built from the official NWS forecast for the next 3 days (sooner days count a little more). A spot rates best with highs from about 60 to 82°F, nights above about 40°F, low rain chances, wind under 15 mph, and no thunderstorms, snow or ice. Active NWS warnings pull a spot's rating down a lot, and watches and advisories a little. Spots are straight-line distances, so the drive will be longer. Over water or outside the U.S. there's no NWS forecast, so it tries a nearby spot on land instead.

More places to stay

Federal public land is often the cheapest place to camp. The private hosts are paid marketplaces, not public land; they fill the gap when free camping isn't close.