Does Anyone Stealth Camp In A Class B or Class C Mini?

[den18]

It seems the more I read the more my original concept of stealth is changing. Here (<a href="http://www.tosimplify.net/p/rig.html">http://www.tosimplify.net/p/rig.html</a>) a man has been stealth camping with almost no hassle in a Chinook Concourse (No Stealth). There (<a href="http://tynan.com/deluxerv">http://tynan.com/deluxerv</a>) another man has been living in a&nbsp;Winnebago Realta for the past five years, parking on the street, and has also had minimal hassle. Over there <br /><br /><a href=""><br /><br /></a>&nbsp;a woman explains her minimal hassle in a cruiser mini (negative stealth).&nbsp;I have also heard other accounts of&nbsp;stealth-less&nbsp;Class B and C Minis being used for stealth camping in urban cities.<br /><br />Have any of you had success with parking in urban settings in a very unstealthy vehicle? I've read that stealth is one of the most important&nbsp;factors&nbsp;when choosing a vehicle. Can we have our cake and eat it too with the extra space that comes from non-stealthy Class B + Cs?

 

[wandering mike]

Read <a href="http://vagabonders-supreme.net/Archives/Archives.html">Tioga George's blog</a> from back in the &nbsp;2003 through 2007 era. &nbsp;Lot's of good stealth camping stuff all over the western US. &nbsp;He is in a 26 foot Class C. &nbsp;He currently lives in Mexico in the RV and blogs daily. &nbsp;Not as stealthy anymore, but less is apparently needed where he is. &nbsp;&nbsp;

 

[rvwandering]

&nbsp;We've been fulltiming in a small class C for about 19 years. Most of the time when we're in a city we stay at Walmart or one of the other big box stores. We stay overnight but leave during the day and check out the local attractions. We stay at the same place for three or four days and then if we want to stay in the area longer we usually move to a different location.<br /><br /><br />&nbsp;If you have to stay in one spot for your job or any other reason this would probably be too much of a hassle. Sometimes people get permission from their employer and can stay in a company lot. <br /><br />&nbsp; If you are traveling around it's not a problem at all to find places to stay as is evidenced by the Glenn,Tynan and George. Stealth might be important in some cases but we haven't been hindered at all by our non-stealth RV.

 

[Nelda]

We travel about 5 to 6 months out of the year. We could stay anyplace but we make a game out of finding stealth stopovers and boondock just for the fun of it.<br />We travel in a class B Roadtrek. It's small enough to go places we shouldn't and is completely self contained.&nbsp; That said, we don't need campgrounds or hookups.<br />We like to hide in plain sight.&nbsp; Our favorite place was in a town where there was absolutely no place to park for even a few hours.<br />In desperation, we parked next to the used car lot at a car dealer.&nbsp; Such Fun.&nbsp; A few cars slowed down to look at us, probably wanted to buy us.&nbsp; We were gone by dawn.<br />Nelda<br /><br />Nelda

 

[magentawave]

I was convinced I had to get a van because of stealth too but faced a real dilemma because i need the room to carry toys like several surfboards, an SUP or two, and a big 29er mountain bike. So after reading Glenn at tosimplify.net and Tioga George I decided just a couple weeks ago that I'm going to buy a clean used Class C of about 22' instead. I wrote Glenn recently and he told me he hasn't been hassled once in 3 years! And even George in his huge Class C has only had a few knocks in the night in almost ten years.

 

[josephusminimus]

During the hard years after Y2K I worked a while 11pm-7am in a Roadway Inn as night clerk in Grants, NM.&nbsp; Night clerks make minimum wage and spend a lot of the night doing paperwork on a computer.&nbsp; They don't have much time to walk around in the parking lot, and they aren't getting paid enough to care, provided there's no disturbance.<br /><br />Grants is along the route snowbirds take from the northern states to Arizona, and a lot of them stop in the motels there, park in the lot and get rooms.&nbsp; During the time I was working there I was well aware every night there'd be stealth parkers, too.&nbsp; Nobody ever told me to run them off, because I never reported them.&nbsp; Some would even stretch the water hose out and top off with motel water.

 

[VanTrekker]

Just wanted to add my two cents...&nbsp; It's amazing how once the sun is up, ANY vehicle is stealthy!&nbsp; You could park a giant motorhome about anywhere and nobody would even think someone is sleeping inside during the day.<br /><br />I'm just a van guy but several times have parked next to the police staton in Iowa City for an afternoon nap.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nobody has noticed.&nbsp; You could do the same with an RV... Just feed the meter and take a siesta.<br /><br />V.T.

 

[mockturtle]

Read <a href="http://vagabonders-supreme.net/Archives/Archives.html">Tioga George's blog</a> from back in the &nbsp;2003 through 2007 era. &nbsp;Lot's of good stealth camping stuff all over the western US. &nbsp;He is in a 26 foot Class C. &nbsp;He currently lives in Mexico in the RV and blogs daily. &nbsp;Not as stealthy anymore, but less is apparently needed where he is. &nbsp;&nbsp;

&nbsp; I was thinking Ms. T. was actually 28' long.&nbsp;

 

[wandering mike]

Mockturtle: &nbsp;You might be right about George's rig. &nbsp;He is my hero though as far as this stealth or street camping goes. &nbsp;I started reading him in 2003 and have read him every day since. &nbsp;The trick in my mind is to find not so much a stealthy place as a place where nobody much cares and yet crime is not prevalent at the location. &nbsp;Tolerance is a good thing. &nbsp;Mine is a 22 foot, but I pull a toad. &nbsp;So Walmart is frequently my overnight spot.