Field notes
Guides and honest answers about buying raw land, living on it, and making the most of your acreage. No jargon, no pressure, just what we would tell a friend.
Articles tagged camping. 8 articles.
State by state, what the deer country actually looks like where we sell, and what a hunting base camp costs when the bank won't finance it.
The Florida nobody stops for: 72-degree springs, blackwater rivers, half a million acres of national forest, and land a working family can carry.
Yes, from the day you sign. Here is the framework: what needs no permission, what needs a quick call first, and what waits for the deed. Plus the two rules that catch people, your county clock on camping and the line on commercial use.
BLM land next door is a real feature and one of the few raw-land features buyers search for. It also does not give you a way in, and it is not permanent. What the statutes and BLM own numbers actually say, and the two free maps to check before you buy.
Twenty-one days of camping per six months, and the structure under that number is the part people get wrong. What Klamath County actually allows for tents, RVs and tiny homes, and the hunting-season provision almost nobody knows about.
A small parcel is not there to hold a herd. It is there to put you where the animals already are, on your own ground, with your truck parked and your camp set. What to look for, what it costs, and what you can do before the deed is in your name.
Fifty things to do with raw land, split by what works while you are still making payments and what waits for the deed. Including an honest accounting of which income ideas are real on forty acres and which ones are not.
Almost every county separates recreational RV use from living in one, and the line is a number of days. That number runs from 21 in six months to 180 a year depending on where you are. Here are the actual ordinances, including the one county that bans generators and the one whose widely repeated limit is wrong.
While you are here
Pima County, AZOcotillo, cholla and prickly pear crowd a raised, flat pad across the middle of this acre, the natural spot for a home with a view of the Tucson Mountains. It sits in Diamond Bell Ranch about 33 miles west of Tucson, at 3,297 feet where summers run a little milder. Cell service is strong, and the zoning lets you build when you're ready.
Putnam County, FLArea photosHoot Owl Road is paved and power runs right past the lot, which is more than most of this old Satsuma subdivision can say. It's a quarter acre in St. Johns River country, twelve minutes from Palatka and a short run to Dunn's Creek and Crescent Lake. The lot is mapped wetland and most of it sits in a FEMA flood zone, so it's priced for what it is today.
Hudspeth County, TXArea photosGuadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas, sits about a half hour east of this ground, and the salt flats that set off a war in 1877 are closer than that. It's open desert outside Salt Flat, Texas, with no zoning and no HOA, so you can pitch a tent this weekend and build off-grid whenever you get around to it.
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