[damienkatz]

BLM == Bureau of Land Management

(Leaving this here for anyone like me who had to google why Black Lives Matter has anything to do with tourism)

[SwellJoe]

Sorry, I guess I'm used to speaking with folks who recognize the context (lots of my friends are involved in Black Lives Matter, too, but the ones who travel know BLM means "free/cheap camping").

One incredible thing about BLM managed land is that you can often visit, and camp, for free. Sometimes for months at a time. There's an entire subculture of mobile homeless folks who do just that. There's lots of snowbirds who summer around Mammoth Lake (which is actually national forest land, mostly, I think, but similarly loosely regulated) and winter in Quartzsite or Slab City or Yuma.

[kalleboo]

Cool, it sounds like the Freedom to Roam we have in the Nordic countries[0], except in the Nordics it applies to all wild land, even privately owned.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Nordic_countri...

"Allemansrätten gives a person the right to access, walk, cycle, ride, ski, and camp on any land—with the exception of private gardens, the immediate vicinity of a dwelling house and land under cultivation. It also gives the right to pick wild flowers, mushrooms and berries, but not to hunt in any way. Swimming in any lake and putting an unpowered boat on any water is permitted unless explicitly forbidden"

[mch82]

BLM website - http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en.html