Many areas are forbidden for UTVs and ATVs to operate in areas where street legal four wheel drive vehicles are in the Maze and Flint Trail areas of Glen Canyon Recreational Area and Canyonlands National Park, so there are areas but these areas are usually only accessible to off road capable true 4 wheel drive vehicles. Many national parks have limited UTV and ATV use. BLM lands with established roads and previously mined or lumbered areas are having roads closed to all vehicle traffic at an accelerated rate it seems causing congestion of a sorts to the ever growing number of off road vehicles in my opinion. With the new administration areas like “The Bears Ears Monument” will most likely be reduced in size along with many others that have natural resources as they were during Trump’s first term. So better get used to seeing all sorts of activity on federal lands.
I just try to stick far away from hyped up places, places where there are more tourists and younger people, areas that had population influx. I dont want to camp near those anyway. Give very wide berth to "destination" types of places or known 4x4 meccas, stay far out of towns too. I go to less known places, regions where life is mostly old school and not many tourists, where regulations dont favor OHVs also. Cows are a different story...I wish there were more rules for those, cows not ohvs is what I usually see out there. Aslo have sort of a gut feeling by looking at the maps, where ohvs are going to be found, and watch out for campsite reviews mentioning them
There are def no federal building codes regulations that apply country-wide to SFH.
You are right there are places where laws are not enforced but they are getting fewer. If the economy goes bad there will probably be less funding and even less enforcement but the laws are still there for what good or bad they do.
Building codes are not laws, really. While septic regulations at least make sense I have no interest in meeting illegal and unconstitutional rules called building codes or some inspector telling me to have running water or flush toilet, what square footage to have or how to build things. The control over building and overall land usage is getting increased for sure and will probably get much worse. Alaska is historically more untied from that stuff because of remoteness and soil/weather too, also general mentality of people there and less population, so it will remain free for longer.
There are people in this world that live on their own terms building or making what they need without wanting outside criticism on matters that should not affect directly anyone else besides themselves when they own the land they are building on. The way is was years ago. No one cared what was built or how it was done. Lots of people drank bad water because the well was dug to close to the barn or floods wiped them out lots of bad things happened but each individual was allowed to decide for themselves. Things got complicated when banks and mortgage companies can into the picture along with public utilities and eminent domain was used to “take” individual’s land for “public good”. We saw real fear when people started attacking FEMA representatives after being lied to thinking they would loose their property if they took the government’s help thanks to misinformation from local antigovernment activists. That was rural America not just towns. People who work and build their homes have a good reason to fear rules and regulations they do not understand or are not aware of.
Yes, but I'm extra afraid of folks like you finding my motorhome and telling me to buy that ambulance clanker from you, thats why I keep driving for miles on that long dirt road and thats why I like unpopulated Alaska so much
Yep, too many people camping and recreating in general.After having to hide 1 year to camp in WA and the insane scrutiny about homeless these days.
I bought 1/2 acre outside of Taos.
$3000 and I made last payment April 1st.
My main consideration was no county harassment for living in the Grand Caravan on the land. I didn't care about power and water or anything else lol. Plus I lived in Taos and worked in summer decades ago. So I knew the story.
Been off grid for 25 years... Hauling water is not a problem. I have 5-100 watt solar panels and no power issues.
Some NM counties and most of America are on people living on land with no facilities.... Some (Deming) have employees that drive around looking for people in RV or camped on their land in the winter... They state it openly
For me it came to... Far too many people these days living in vehicles looking for places to camp (in my VW bus days, it was not so) and far too many Govt rules.
Living in the van is great I have no complaints other than more space might be nice... But in today's world I like knowing where home is and not having a never endless search for where to sleep.. Too much stress.
Just saw 40 acres sell for $10k with power and great mountain views in Nevada.
There got to be a caveat. Waterless desert land still tends to cost more in 40 acre parcels, and power adds to the value.
