Restarting Last Years Traveling Plans

[Dahlia47]

Last year before the virus hit, I had quite a bit of travel planned. I am going to replan my travels for the year. I am a bit miffed because one of the states has a 2-week quarantine mandate in place. Do I need to abide by this mandate since I am only camping? The only places I'll be stopping are the gas stations. I certainly won't be anywhere near a big city either. I don't even know where to start looking to see what mandates there are in different states and to find out what exceptions there are for campers. It seems a bit overwhelming. The virus already hit our house and I have tested negative twice. Knock on wood!

Have any of you come across any problems? Anything I should know about? Any sites you can refer me to? This seems a bit ridiculous. Camping seems like the best way to social distance.

[tony.latham]

I think every state is probably different as far as quarantine rules and enforcement.

We were headed back to southern Utah this last spring and they really shut it down. No boondocking. No gas to non-locals in places like Moab. Damn. So we canned that idea.

Hopefully, we will get poked in our arms by April and can head south again this year.



Good luck,

Tony

[gudmund]

around Labor Day last year, I headed east across northern Wash, Idaho & into western Montana and the only problem I ran into was a few of the campgrounds I tried to check into would not rent to me because of the teardrop 'not' being 'self-contained' - they had their rest rooms/showers closed. Other than that, I did fine, stayed at a few US Forest Service camps along with a few private ones along the way. (1500mile+ trip)

[Tom&Shelly]

Last year before the virus hit, I had quite a bit of travel planned. I am going to replan my travels for the year. I am a bit miffed because one of the states has a 2-week quarantine mandate in place. Do I need to abide by this mandate since I am only camping? The only places I'll be stopping are the gas stations. I certainly won't be anywhere near a big city either. I don't even know where to start looking to see what mandates there are in different states and to find out what exceptions there are for campers. It seems a bit overwhelming. The virus already hit our house and I have tested negative twice. Knock on wood!

Have any of you come across any problems? Anything I should know about? Any sites you can refer me to? This seems a bit ridiculous. Camping seems like the best way to social distance.

In New Mexico we have a quarantine requirement, but as far as I can tell the rules aren't specific enough to know if "quarantining" with your immediate family at a remote camp site counts. (Seems reasonable to me, but I haven't been consulted in the matter.)

Last I heard, they closed the state parks to out-of-state folks. There are still federal lands, and I believe the rangers there abide by (their interpretation) of the state health orders.

I would call ahead to whomever is responsible for the land you want to camp on and get their name along with the rules. At least here, a good faith effort to obey the rules goes a long way.

Tom

[Dahlia47]

I will be going to NM, AZ, CO, NV, MO. I am really pushing it possibly adding WY and Montana and UT.
My TT is self-contained. I have a bed, potty, shower, gravity water system. I am hoping that is self-contained enough for their requirements.
The one "MAYBE" stop would be Carlsbad Caverns. We had to cancel that last year. So I may just wait till 2022 for that one. Other than that one, everything else is camping, hiking and kayaking.

[Tom&Shelly]

I will be going to NM, AZ, CO, NV, MO. I am really pushing it possibly adding WY and Montana and UT.
My TT is self-contained. I have a bed, potty, shower, gravity water system. I am hoping that is self-contained enough for their requirements.
The one "MAYBE" stop would be Carlsbad Caverns. We had to cancel that last year. So I may just wait till 2022 for that one. Other than that one, everything else is camping, hiking and kayaking.

Well, I hope you can make it, Carlsbad Caverns is great. If not for the pandemic, I'd recommend it this time of year, when the crowds are smaller. After all, it's not a bad climate for camping and the cave itself is the same temperature year round.

Right now, the pandemic is at the worst of the worst. When enough vaccine gets out I would expect the rules to begin relaxing a bit everywhere. Shelly and I are still hoping to get back East, and maybe even into Canada in late Summer.

Tom

[Modstock]

Last year didn't affect us that bad. We were still able to pull off a few trips.
Just had to stay away from people.
1.) Goblin valley (May)
2.) Payson lakes (late June)
3.) Fish lake (July)
((Fire season))
4.) Cleveland reservoir (October)
5.) City of rocks, Idaho (late October)
Our first trip to goblin valley was cancelled, then just as the restrictions lifted we were able to get our reserved sites.



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[RJ Howell]

There are several sites out there that are tracking regulations. I like this one because it track counties within a state as well. Google it and pick your preferred, yet here's what I'm using. https://gds.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2ec42826968d4d0980ccca0fbbfe0c7c

We're heading out 1/20 and traveling out of NH. I have a couple states of issue, but will drive right through (overnight would require quarantine, yet can stop for fuel/food). We're headed south to Florida and the Gulf Coast. Wednesday, 1/20 and forward, things change a bit and could be quite a bit on where and how we can travel/camp. How far or long we are gone is according to what occurs.

This week (and the next few) will tell the tale of 2021's camping opportunities.

Safe travels!

[Philip]

I was out roaming around in Oct for a couple of weeks. Covered right at 5K miles. From what I ran across. If you mask up no one says a word. All camp grounds were open. I was in AZ, NM, TX, OK,

At the time AZ was in panic mode going by the lame stream networks. Now for the people that meant just another day of business. No ever said anything about our out of state plates. National parks were free entry.

NM was open. Didn't catch the lame stream in that state. Just hit the places we wanted to see, then gone. Carlsbad was open. White sands was open. National parks were free entry.

TX didn't see much there just kind of blew threw. Stopped once for fuel and to eat.

I live in IN. So I went threw IL to get west. I only stop in that state to take a dump. No news worth reporting there.

MO seemed to be open for all accounts.

OK was open. By the lame stream it was closed. LOL

Plan your trip and take it. Mask up and you should be fine. Make sure to have enough fuel to get out of a state no matter where you are in it. If they try to make you set somewhere for 2 weeks. Just leave. They didn't want your money. I can tell you the business's now matter where you go need the cash flow. Enjoy the trip.

[halfdome, Danny]

Last year the teardrop stayed in the garage because of the pandemic.
This morning I scheduled my first Covid-19 vaccine shot for Feb 1, 2021 I'm in the B1 category.
I'm assuming the second shot would be in 21 days after the first one.
My wife is a few years younger than me so we'll have to wait awhile after she gets her second shot to go teardropping.
Last year we were planning to go to the south west National Parks ending up maybe at Carlsbad Caverns.
I've been there a few times but my wife hasn't.
If I remember correctly Carlsbad is 150 miles from nowhere.
Can't wait to get out of town and return to a somewhat normal life.
Danny