You're not even gonna believe this spot i got.
Oh my god i love i love national forest land
oh my god
what is going on youtube and greetings from grand teton national park
grand teton has been at the top of my bucket list for a long time
so i'm really happy to finally be here and share this experience with you
in today's video i'm going to show you a couple of the sites from grand teton
and then i'm going to go try to find a free campsite for the next couple nights
i'm going to explain the process i go through to find a free campsite
and then i'm gonna go look for another free campsite
to spend five or six days at so this should be pretty exciting so come on
let's go explore grand teton so some might view
the overcast sky is a negative but it ended up being a positive as
you'll see i had one of the most iconic teton spots all to myself because no one
was out that day all right so i'm at one of the most
iconic spots in grand teton so you have the grand tetons back there
and then over here you have the mormon barn this
is a classic iconic picture that you see when you see grand teton national park
so it's really exciting to be here i've always admired the photography from
this place so really cool i wish it was a little bit
clearer out but that's okay after spending about an hour in this pretty
awesome place i hopped back in my rig and headed to another iconic spot jenny
lake in order to get the ginny lake you
actually have to go into grand teton national park so you
got to pay unless you have a national park pass
okay so i was going to try to go to the south entrance of jenny lake but it was
completely packed at 8am so
i talked to one of the rangers and she said
go to the north entrance to jenny lake there's a really cool scenic drive and
it's actually a better experience than the southern entrance together lake
where just about everybody goes so that's what i'm doing right now i'm
on the scenic drive and it's raining a little bit but it's
pretty cool hopefully i'll get some good shots of jenny lake
for you a few moments later i found a way to get
down to the lake so that northern entrance to jenny lake
is pretty cool the drive is really beautiful and there are a
couple scenic stops that you can get out and take a little
hike so that's what i did i hiked down here to jenny lake it's
just as beautiful as in the pictures today is an overcast
day so you can't really see the amazing
beauty that jitty lake is famous for usually these mountains you see in the
background the tetons will reflect off the lake and so if
you've ever looked at any of the pictures
of ginny lake which i encourage you to do there are some
gorgeous shots of this lake with the mountains reflecting off of it
okay now that i've seen a couple things here in grand teton national park
i'm gonna head out and try to find a free campsite
as close to the park as i can possibly get we'll see if i'm able to do that
my friend jenny sent me gps coordinates to a spot about 10 miles outside of
teton national park she had found a spot and so i was hoping
maybe i could find one as well everywhere so for the next four miles
there's uh camping available free dispersed camping
so gonna see if we can find any being from missouri man my head's always
on a swivel when i'm anywhere where it says there might be bears so
here's where we're at we're on spread creek road
all right so the campy limit is five days
that's a lot different than most of the places i've been most of the blm
land and national forest land i have been in in colorado is 14 days so maybe
that means we'll be able to get a spot tonight
so this area ended up having 12 designated campsites
the first five have awesome views of the tetons i didn't get in one of those
but i eventually found a spot spot seven and it had its own little cool factor
all right so i found a couple open spots actually which was really cool
my friend jenny is at one of them but i think she's gonna come down here because
she's at the very first spot and i'm down in spot
seven and it's pretty cool so i'll show you around here real quick
so i got the band nice and tucked in here and if ginny
comes down here she's probably gonna park somewhere over here
or try to find spots 7 8 9 10 down there um
but it's got a nice little fire circle here
and then this tells you all the rules like hey careful of the bears
and then i don't know why i always get lucky with these little creeks but
got this little creek right here it's a fast it's a super fast moving
creek so i'm going to try to cross
on this little log and you'll get a nice little lap if i fall in
that'll be great youtube content won't it i'll try not to
and then across that little log is this huge like river bed
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this area is only about a hundred yards from my campsite
it's a riverbed i don't know if it's the snake river or if it's a river that
leads into the snake river but it's pretty awesome to be able to
come out here hang out at these ice cold river streams
and have the tetons here in the background
i haven't seen any bear moosh yet even though there's bear and moose signs
everywhere up ginny just pulled in
she hates being on youtube but she has a really cool instagram called
wine a bagel and i'm supposed to say hi to her mother for her
so this was a really awesome campsite jenny ended up staying
for five nights because she had to work and the internet was reliable in the
area but i left after four nights i wanted to
go find somewhere that was even more remote and maybe
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okay so i figure while i'm on this 30 minute drive
to my new campsite i would talk about how i go about finding campsites
i have two primary methods the first method
and i think the most important and the one you should really try to use
is recommendations from friends now you might be saying i don't have any friends
at camp so neither did i before uh before i set
out on this adventure um what i did was i joined a
couple of groups i joined the escapers group and that
gave me access to a bunch of different people
that have a bunch of different kinds of rigs
and have a wealth of knowledge about camping
on national forest land and blm land i'll be honest with you i didn't think i
was gonna do much of that i thought i was gonna be mostly
in campsites but i'm really glad that i met people that taught me the
ropes the second group i'm a part of is called the winnie b
association it's part of winnebago's group it's a little sub group
it's all the class b owners they've also been a valuable resource they've
all clued me in to really cool spots to boondock at
and so that's the primary method i use i get spots from people i know the
second method are a couple websites and usually when i
get sites from people i know i go to these
websites and read the reviews see what the cell
phone reception is things like that so the two sites i use
primarily are campendium and freecampsites.net
i know there's a million others there's apps
but those are the two that i'm most familiar with and the ones that i use
but if you know some that are really good make sure you comment below
share with the audience let them know what you use whether it's an app or a
website those two have worked really well for me
the first one i usually go to is campendium because they usually have
really good pictures usually i'll find a site on there and
then i'll go to freecampsites.net and i go there because they have a lot of
reviews and they also have more dispersed camping campsites
so those are the two websites i use and i've had nothing but great luck with
them i've been out here on the road for almost two and a half months now and
i've only spent two nights at a campground
and three nights mooch docking camping in my friend's driveways
so for me those two methods have worked very well
getting recommendations from my friends and using campendium and
freecampsites.net so i just turned on to another dirt road
and i've really come to love these national forests
gravel and dirt roads they usually lead to some
really really cool campsites so i'm hoping that's the case today like
i mentioned earlier my friend tony is the one that gave me these
coordinates and then i looked on freecampsites.net
verified that it was a camp area there were a bunch of sites
and so here we go let's try to find one hopefully one's open if there is one
um yeah fingers crossed i eventually made it to tony's campsite
and it was amazing but unfortunately there was already
somebody there so i pulled out my gps map and i
realized the road i was on went another 20 miles so i figured i'd
keep going into the national forest and seeing if i
could find another spot five miles in i found the most
incredible spot oh i can't even believe i keep saying
this like i think i found the best spot ever like
i can't even believe this spot let me let me just give you like a little
see all these like beautiful mountain flowers
over here and then
look at the tetons in my background that's gonna be the
view out of my bedroom window i ended up
staying in this campsite for another five nights
before packing up my gear and going and searching for another awesome campsite
what this experience taught me was there are
amazing campsites to be had if you're willing to do a little research
and go to places that other people might not be willing to go
i would walk away from the spotlight