I'm planning to start full time rv-ing in a class B and working remote sometime this summer. It looks like the BLM areas in the desert SW offer tons of free or cheap long term spots with good verizon 4g coverage during the winter. But for the hot months.. maybe April-October, what areas in the Rockies, NorthWest, and Northern US (or even Canada) offer areas where there's both strong 4g signals abound, and free or cheap dispersed camping on federal lands without excessive drives between areas 14 day stay limits? Or are there any migration routes for digital remote workers anyone has put together which don't involve significant RV park stays and fees?
Free/cheap summer areas with good 4g signals
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We traveled across the northern states this past summer from Michigan to Washington mostly boondocking. The website I found most helpful for finding spots was https://freecampsites.net/ and then using Google Earth to check out the actual location to make sure we would fit as we have a big rig. You wouldn?t have that problem and could stay at a lot of the really great sounding places we had to pass on due to size. If someone has stayed at the site they post and reviewed it, it will usually show the cell coverage available.
Good luck with your travels.
Vicki
Good luck with your travels.
Vicki
Decent cell and decent wife service are two totally different things. Cell towers have a limited range, cost a lot of money to erect. No one is going to put cell towers in remote locations, so in reality your two wants are not real compatible. We used to camp host and at two parks wifi service was only available early morning. Cell service was OK all day. One park was about 7 miles off the highway. The other was 2 miles off highway, but 15 miles from the nearest VZW tower.
Thanks for the info.. So it sounds like there's not a northern or high elevation equivalent of the SW BLM areas for summer months which you can stay an extended amount of time with little relocation, is free or cheap, and has good 4g data coverage? If so, I'd probably need to either budget for RV parks or make some private party arrangement to be able to stay in relatively the same area for 3 or 4 months of the summer and be able to enjoy mild weather. It would be nice to not be camped so close to other folks as in a park though and be out more in nature.
I'm in Montana. Unfortunately our sparse population does not support cell towers in remote locations. Also, the Mountains block signals. So, service along the Interstates is mostly good in Montana - except for a few stretches. If you're going far north - there is cell service at Ft. Peck Lake. There is a Corps of Engineers campground there. It's lower elevation and therefore gets hot in mid-summer. We got service at Hebgen Lake (Rainbow Point Campground - Forest Service) and at Georgetown Lake (not sure which campground we were at). Those are cooler spots. But every place I've mentioned is fee camping.
Good Luck.
Good Luck.
I found some highly rated RV parks in Canada with pretty good monthly and seasonal rates. Maybe something like that or a spot in the northern Rockies is a good plan. The prices in the Northeast look way too high. With a leisurely migration over two months or so in the spring and fall... I'm ready to make this happen!
Oldgator73
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donn said:
Yes they are. And I would posit a decent wife service is much harder to find than decent cell service. On the other hand I have enjoyed the same wife service for 46 years. It has only gotten better as the years have marched on. 8)
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shorts said:
Thanks for the link...I've added to my list
Oldgator73 said:
Why old gator...You old romantic
Oldgator73
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Gizmo100 said:Thanks for the link...I've added to my list
Why old gator...You old romantic
Well, old at least.
Isaac-1
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I spent a couple of days a couple of weeks apart at a Forest Service campground (dry camping with pit toilets, and non-potable water faucet) east Laramie WY in the summer of 2017 which had marginal to good 4G (fast enough to stream video if I remember correctly), I think price in the campground was $10 per night, there was also ample free boondocking nearby down the various forest service roads, this campground was within sight of I-80. At 8,000+ feet it was also cool at night even in the middle of summer, even fairly cool in the daytime. I think the name was Vedawoo ( a popular rock climbing spot). There is a dump station with potable water fill up in Laramie at the old Territorial prison museum, I think they charge about $10 for dump and water fill.
p.s. I had AT&T
p.s. I had AT&T
