Surprisingly, you can actually buy land with rights to use for a camping spot. Some offer long-term permits and some offer more of a short-term permit. But if you have ever tried to get away for a few days, finding a camping spot may be harder than you thought and super expensive. That's why buying camping land might be a perfect idea.
Owning the land for camping, you can rest assured a spot is waiting for your getaway. Secret note, you can also make good money with camping land. We will cover that later.
One of the largest camping sites to book a spot is Reserve America. This website is used by most national parks and smaller-run camping sites. It's a fairly decent system to lock in a campsite short term or in the future. The main issue people find is the number of sold-out days there are. In fact, in summertime, pretty much the whole season is booked all along the California coast and even inland. If there are events near camping sites, those are booked already as well. It can really ruin your plans to get away into nature and reset your batteries. Booking a year ahead is a risky situation as well, plans change and if you try to move the dates you probably won't get a new date.
Land, especially rural land that may not have options to build due to the nature there, may allow camping. Even some normal residential land will offer this option. Owning land you can use for camping ensures your spot is open any time you want to use it. Also, you won't be packed in like sardines into some carved-out camping tract. No loud parties or issues, with your own camping spot, it will just be you and nature.
With us being a land-selling site, we have run into quite a few of these. At first, we questioned the use, but we had many customers asking us for this type of land. We quickly studied this and found the major value in this type of classified land. Land is cheap to own, no maintenance, low taxes, and really just overall worry-free. But camping land has some major perks.
Transform Your Land into a Picturesque Camping Destination
Most likely the land is raw when you get it, but you can actually carve out your land into a camping spot for close to nothing. For a camping spot, you really only need space for a few tents and a nice area to relax. Clearing a smaller area on your land can most likely be done by yourself. For tips on this visit our article Clearing Your Land. In short, you want to find a nice flat spot on your land, then clear the trees and vegetation in the best spot possible. Road access will be needed as well, so clear a nice path. Get several bags of gravel rocks or harvest some local gravel. After clearing an area, these rocks will keep vegetation from overgrowing the area again. You can easily leave the spot and know that the camping area will remain. Of course for tent camping, you would want a dirt area free of vegetation, rocks would not be comfortable to put a tent on. This type of area may need some weed treatment or different sand type covering. With small supplies, you can get a really nice camping spot going. Add some features to your spot to make it more attractive. Everyone likes a good fire pit when they camp. You can go fancy with a fire pit or even just use any type of heavy rock, brick, or even metallic enclosure. Adding a table is an option, even a basic kitchen table so food can be prepared and cooked. The possibilities are endless to make the spot more unique and comfortable. Improvements like this can even make you an income. Renting Out Your Camping Spot Make Money on Your Camping Land
Just like Airbnb you can actually rent out camping spots on a website called HipCamp.com, hit the link to see how popular and nice this website is. A huge number of people use this site to rent camping spots. They are usually more unique than the usual national park zones, which is the major perk. Some even have glamorous tents already set up. The camping spots go anywhere from $10 to $300 per night. You don't have to live on the land to use this, as long as your land is set up for camping you are good to go. You just need to offer good directions and support for your campers.
Depending on the area, you can make a decent amount of money. Having profitable land that just sits there is a rare opportunity. So if your land is zoned for camping use, it may be even more useful than just a lot you hold for value gain or future building area. Permits It's best to understand your rights for camping on the land. While it can be found in your zoning information, or by calling the county, it may or may not have restrictions. Some land will have capped days per year that it can be used for camping. Others may have restrictions like only usable when local events are taking place.
Some choose to avoid this altogether, if their land is not in a bothersome area and more remote, people take their chances. Most areas won't spend the resources to go check out someone camping on remote land. But, the best route is by following county rules to avoid possible fines. Be aware of what you are dealing with depending on your area. If you find your land is in a high ranked fire zone, you need to either trust yourself or people you allow on the land. If you don't have permits and someone starts a forest fire, you may find yourself in a serious battle with the county. Fire zones do allow camping, but clearing the area may have some guidelines and inspection to follow.
Land you see with only camping rights is more valuable than you think. Some BLM land even has this option, this land is pretty cheap. This land is run by the Bureau of Land Management to sustain nature zones within the area. You need to contact the area but a lot of these have some camping rights. The issue may be getting to the land though, these are found in unbuildable landscapes. Buying a parcel for this is probably a better option because you can carve it out for camping. Owning a camping spot surely has its perks, so keep an eye out and even start making an income.
