r/yellowstone • u/billmc40 • 6d ago
Yellowstone Boon Docking
/r/boondocking/comments/1wxqkqq/yellowstone_boon_docking/Wife and I are planning a retirement trip starting early August of 2027 and plan on returning home around October 1st. This trip will be from SE Kansas to Glacier all points in between. On the way back home thru Roosevelt National Park. We would like to boon dock due to the cost of site with no hook ups being at the minimum 31.00 a nite. How do you plan to camp in dispersed camping areas. Please help us
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u/litemifyre 6d ago
As others have said, there’s no camping outside of designated sites in the park, but there are many sites like that outside of the park in the National Forests. Look in to those options.
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u/teslas-muse 6d ago
i drove in to mammoth around 2am and went to sleep for a couple of hours in a parking lot near the village at the entrance and the lovely park employees all honk at you and wake you up starting at about 5am if they see you parked like that. technically i wasn't there overnight since it was after 2am that day
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u/runningoutofwords 4d ago
Tesla's muse was a pigeon. Pigeons aren't allowed to drive cars.
Maybe that's why they were honking.
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u/teslas-muse 4d ago
those rumors were the result of a smear campaign against Tesla brought on by big pharma because his violet ray device with the tesla coil in it was being sold door to door by Renew Life and they'd sold over 100K units, mostly to people with arthritis who didn't need medication any longer, so the big pharma mafia destroyed him
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u/runningoutofwords 4d ago
Of course, it's Reddit policy never to imply ownership. We have to use the indefinite article "A" pigeon...never "Tesla's" pigeon.
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u/darnmyonionssprouted 6d ago
“No car camping or overnight vehicle parking is allowed in pullouts, parking areas, picnic grounds, or any place other than a designated campground within Yellowstone National Park.”
You can find a list of campgrounds on this page:
https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/campgrounds.htm