>>2405802My buddy and I stealth camped/LARPED in the Everglades for a week because it never occurred to us that the rules for national parks, and forests would be different. Here’s how we did it and got away with it.
1 you can park anywhere that’s not heavily trafficked, no one cares. We parked along side a road.
2 spend your first day moving deep into the woods. Make sure no one sees you go in, avoid trails. Read/watch a 10 minute guide on SERE stuff and you’ll know plenty more than you need. It helps to pre make your route with maps.
3 camp low impact, high concealment. Cowboy camp if possible. No fires if possible. Leave no trash (should be doing that anyway), no ashes, nothing. Hide your camp from casual sight or sound with ditches, bushes, whatever. If you spent all day moving away from everything it won’t be an issue.
4 IF YOU GET CAUGHT PLAY DUMB AND POLITE. Ye sir, no sir, comply with all commands, say little but don’t be cagey. We got cuffed on the side of the road the day we went to leave cause we made no effort to hide our guns and took a trail back. Someone called and snitched. We told them we were college students that love to camp in the Daniel Boone forest with a lot of surplus cause it’s cheap (all true). We checked the Everglades website and didn’t see any rules against it (also true). No we weren’t hunting, no we didn’t light any fires, no we didn’t leave any trash. Everything we were doing is legal in a national forest. (All true)
Turns out national park rules are somewhere else. Only rules specific to parks are on that parks website. I won’t say where so you can honestly say you don’t know what they are. Inb4 that’s illegal/ irresponsible, op already said they want to break the rules.
In they end they searched our persons, and car (they had probable cause trust me), then gave us a warning to leave the weapons behind and stay in a camp sight. Didn’t even kick us out of the park. Good luck
