On a little vacation from our stay at Resaca de la Palma State Park, we took a little side trip to Lake Casa Blanca State Park in Laredo, TX. This sprawling park, just outside of Laredo, Texas, is wrapped around the south end of Lake Casa Blanca. It hosts a small network of hiking and biking trails, as well as tons of day-use areas for fishing, swimming, boating, and more!
While we were in South Texas for the winter, we were based out of Resaca de la Palma State Park outside of Brownsville, TX. Mom got a job there as a work/camping volunteer. In exchange for just 24 hours of her time a week, we got a free spot to park the bus with full hookups! Resaca de la Palma State Park is a sprawling wildlife refuge surrounding an oxbow
Our last stop before our winter layover, and only the second time we have paid to park. Lake Corpus Christi State Park is a sprawling park cupped around one end of Lake Corpus Christi. Available RV amenities include water, power with 50A, 30A, and 20A receptacles, and an easy-to-access dump station. Our spot only cost $20 a night, and they have spots with sewer hookups for a little bit more.
Our first stop in Texas on our run south from The Sugar Beet Harvest. Lake Quitman West Dispersed Camping was a great place to cool our heels for a bit and recover from a simply horrible cold that was going around the bus. Located 20 minutes or so outside of the town of Lake Quitman, it’s a little off the beaten path, but not so much as to be inaccessible.
As part of our plans to move south for the winter, we stayed for a month at Jacque’s Rolling Wheels DIY, outside of Hartville, Missouri. Jacque’s Rolling Wheels DIY is the first place we ever paid to camp. As a campground, it’s minimal; just a field. You pay for the networking experience of the other nomads and full-timers as you work on your rig. Most campgrounds do not allow this!
On our run south from North Dakota, we stayed a few days in the dispersed camping area in the Worthwine Island Conservation Area. The area was a bit off the beaten path, and google maps and truck maps both failed us. One had us magically transported across the map, while the other got us most of the way there and then stopped. One thing we can say with confidence is
Just outside of Centerville, South Dakota is an adorable county park that is free to camp at. With a notable exception. A lot of the free camping webpages state that Gunderson Park is open year-round, but there is a sign at the front gate that says camping is only allowed from Memorial Day to Labor Day. We showed up at the beginning of October with a plan to only stay
During the sugar beet harvest, we got to stay “free” at the Governor’s Inn RV park in Castleton, North Dakota. This was our first time staying at a place with full hookups and it was pretty nice. The park itself wasn’t much to write home about. It was a level gravel lot with lots of space for RVs and skoolies. The slip we were in had power, water, and sewer
On our way through North Dakota, we stopped just outside Theodore Roosevelt National Park and boondocked in the Scoria Pit dispersed camping area of the Little Missouri National Grasslands. This spot was right next to the tourist town of Medora. We were there in the shoulder season, meaning we were outside of peak, but the weather was still nice. What this meant for us was most of the town was
I talk about our experience at the Far West Fishing Access, just outside Rosebud Montana.