Harvest Hosts

[Vanuber]

Come on, you guys don't have a poop bucket?

This is pretty cool as we already like visiting wineries. Looks like there are quite a few locations in Virginia. Unfortunately, you can't actually view them without a membership.
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[joetiger]

From years of watching Jed's CampervanCulture videos, it seems like camping on farms is more prevalent in Europe (but not standardized by an app.)

I'm sure that if you do camp at a farm, they have designated areas where you can camp so that you don't find yourself in a harmful situation. And if you have a farm and fear that a greenhorn, citified, suit-and-tied type is going to lose their arms in the blades of your combine, then I would assume that you're not participating.

I think it's a great idea for "city slickers" to experience new and unconventional places to camp. It also might open some eyes to the differences, and more importantly the lack of differences, between our divergent urban and rural cultures.
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[Jake de Villiers]

[sanchius]

I havent tried this yet, but friends use this free "land-sharing" app that's like VRBO for camping on private land/farms

https://www.hipcamp.com/
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[coqcitywesty]

I have contemplated this option previously as I have a colleague with a Class A motorhome that use it quite extensively. Your membership fee essentially buys you access to the list of locations across NA and yes, the expectation is that you spend some $$ at the respective winery outlets to offset the privilege of spending the night there. The 'self-contained' rule is pretty much the deal breaker for me (in a Westy) as at the very least, I would want to have access to running water and a toilet at any site I am staying at. That said, they do likely provide a safe/secure place to sleep if stealth-camping is not an option and all you wanted to do was crash for a few hours.

Of note, we were not permitted to 'sleep' at Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Big Sur, where they DO permit stays/sleeps similar to highway rest stops IF you are self contained. As we had no 'installed' toilet, we were not considered self-contained and were left to stealth camp instead.
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[Irishcalifornian]

[0to60in6min]

I have room on my property for a couple small campers... my top preference is for vanagon...

no behemoth campers... nope, niet, nada

access to private bathroom, restroom, water, electricity and wifi.

[valvecovergasket]

[vanagonjr]

[Squidfish]

I'm a fan of HipCamp personally. Not into the membership idea.
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[Abscate]

It’s a demise of social skills. I’ve asked to stay on land in foreign countries ( we were bombing them 36 months earlier) not even speaking the language of the host, via pantomime , and they want a membership to give me an address book?

Youth is wasted on the young.

- Frank Capra
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