Free federal land · USFS + BLM · the Rocky Mountain West

Know how long you can live at any free federal camp.
And the one run to stay out longer.

Pick a dispersed base camp on public land. Get one verdict — how many days you can live there for your rig, what runs out first, and the single town loop that resets it. Capped by the typical 14-day stay limit — which varies by area, so confirm locally.

Live now — 215 camps + the rig tool
The Camp Autonomy Card Illustrative
Willow Bench
38.6412°N 111.9034°W · 8,940 FT
USFS · FR 356
0 14d 4.2 DAYS UNTIL FULL
Used water (grey) tank fills up first
That's your real deadline — the 14-day stay limit doesn't kick in until 10 days later.
6.1 DRINKING
7 FOOD
8 FUEL
9 TOILET
11 PROPANE
Your rig: 30 gal drinking · 22 gal used · 18 gal toilet · furnace · 2 people. Dials show days left, out of the 14 you're allowed to stay.
Why this doesn't exist yet

Every other app answers one question at a time.

iOverlander, Allstays, GasBuddy, Google — each one is good at a single category, measured from wherever your phone is standing. Nobody fuses the whole picture into one read for the camp you're actually going to.

One category, from your GPS

  • GasBuddycheapest fuel — near you, right now
  • Sanidumpsa dump station — if you go looking for it
  • iOverlandercrowd pins — thin once the pavement ends
  • Googleone search at a time; won't stack 15 needs on a map

What we bring to the table

autonomy math× a specific dispersed camp× real resupply drive-times× the optimal town loop× your rig× the 14-day clock
= one verdict: you can live here ~N days, this runs out first, here's the one run to reset it.
The signature read

The number that decides your week.

Your rig is a set of tanks and supplies, each with a days-to-empty. We surface the one nearest its limit as the headline — the first thing to send you to town — and stack the rest behind it like a dashboard.

How long each supply lasts 0–14 days · illustrative
USED WATER
4.2d
EST.
DRINKING
6.1d
EST.
FOOD
7d
LOGGED
FUEL
8d
LOGGED
PROPANE
11d
EST.

Grey water usually fills up first — but not always. Cold snap? Propane. Jug camper with no tanks? Drinking water is the whole story. Which need forces the town run changes with your rig, so we compute it from your setup, not a generic RV.

The all-needs map

Everything you need, measured from camp — not your phone.

Every category at once, measured from the camp — that's the point. An honest gap is shown as a gap, never a hopeful pin. It's live on every Rockies camp nowsee a real one →

UM Creek FR 356 · dirt · 25 min UT-24 30 MIN 60 MIN 90 MIN YOUR CAMP LOA · 55 MIN W G P F W RANGER STN · 40m D OLD REPORT · 14 MO ? N ↑
checked recently old report — shown, never routed unknown — we won't guess

The full resupply stack, one map, anchored to the camp — not to you:

Potable water Dump station Propane refill Diesel + DEF Gas Grocery Pharmacy Hardware Rig-friendly mechanic Laundromat Shower Urgent care Air-up Outfitter Mail / general delivery Overnight-OK node
overlander-operational — the layer Google has no idea about

No checked dump within 90 minutes? We badge it UNKNOWN and tell you — we won't route you 60 miles to a pin that might be gone.

The trust engine

We'd rather say "we don't know" than send you 60 miles wrong.

One wrong pin at the end of a dirt road is a tow, or worse. So every fact carries how we know it, and how fresh it is. Same honesty machinery on the pins and, later, the forecast.

Verified

Checked, recently

Confirmed against a live source or a fresh report. Safe to route on.

Likely

Good signal, not confirmed

Chain policy or a solid tag says yes, but we haven't verified this exact spot.

Stale

Was true once

An old report. Shown so you know it exists — never used in a supply run.

Unknown

We won't guess

No trustworthy source. Badged plainly instead of faked into a pin.

Every attribute gets a source — OSM tag, chain policy, state law, or a crowd report — and an "as of" date. Stale and Unknown are visible, but they never route.

Before you go dark

Save the whole camp, offline.

Not a map rectangle — the card, the NF rules, the full stack with drive-times, your rig's autonomy, and every freshness stamp, frozen as of the moment you saved it. Signal dies past the cattle guard; the saved card keeps working, it just can't update.

Offline is free here — a competitor puts it behind a paywall.
The paid layer, later

The timing edge rides on top.

The logistics stay free. The paid delta is the operational overlay — a weather go-window for the drive-in, road passability, fire legality — plus done-for-you trip planning. Decision support for living on public land, not travel advice.

Brief

One camp, one verdict, one run — done for you.

Corridor Plan

A whole route's worth of bases and resets.

Season Rotation

Where to be, and when, across a season.

What we've mapped so far

Real data, on the ground, starting in the Rockies.

24,700+
resupply points pulled across the stack
47
national forests, boundaries mapped
63
BLM areas — the free-to-camp land
6
Rocky Mountain states: CO WY MT ID UT NM

Gathered and being enriched with the overlander details that actually matter — refill vs. exchange propane, DEF, refill-anywhere pharmacies, rigs a mechanic will touch. We're starting in the Rocky Mountain West and expanding as we verify each region. No region goes live until the data earns it.

Who's behind it

Built by someone who lives it.

I'm Dave Lalande — @davelalande. I've spent years overlanding and living on free federal land: national forests, BLM, the places with no hookups and no cell bars.

This is the tool I kept wishing existed at the trailhead — the one that does the autonomy math and the town-run logistics in my head, honestly, for my rig. I'll tell you plainly what's checked and what's a guess. That honesty isn't a feature; it's the whole point.

Dave Lalande · American Adventurer · x.com/davelalande

Know your days. Make the run. Stay out longer.

Decision support for living on public land — not travel advice. All figures on this page are illustrative while we build. We never claim natural water is potable — treat everything. Caution is the default when the signal is thin.