About Camprtron

Camprtron is a camping finder covering 50 states across the Mountain West, New England, Texas, the Pacific Northwest, California, the Great Plains, the Mid-Atlantic North, the Northwoods, the Ozarks, Appalachia North, Appalachia South, the Gulf South, the Ohio Valley, Alaska, and Hawaii, built by Inglehoff LLC, expanding toward all 50. We rank dispersed (free) and developed (reservable) camping sites based on access type, terrain, and your vehicle’s actual capabilities, not just what looks good on a map.

Camprtron is built by a longtime dispersed camper who has spent years navigating forest-service roads and MVUMs across the state. Every guide is written from firsthand backcountry experience and cross-checked against public-domain USFS, BLM, RIDB, and NHD data.

What is Camprtron?

Camprtron is a campsite finder and trip planner for campers who want to know what is actually near a site before they drive there.

It covers two types of camping: dispersed camping and developed campgrounds. Dispersed camping, also called boondocking, means free, off-grid camping on National Forest or BLM public land, without hookups, fees, or reservations. Developed campgrounds are reservable, fee-based sites that typically have fire rings, restrooms, and marked spaces. Camprtron shows both in one ranked list, without paid placement influencing the order.

Every search factors in what matters near camp. You set a drive time from home and choose what you care about: 12,000-foot peaks, water you can filter, fishing access, hiking trails, or mountain-bike trails. Camprtron scores and ranks every site by how close those features are to camp, not by proximity to a data warehouse office.

Rig access is rated at every site: passenger car accessible, high clearance, or 4×4-only, so you know what the road actually demands before you commit. Access is shown as a tag and a warning, never used to hide a site. In our access-road study, 62% of reviewed dispersed sites needed high clearance or 4×4; see our access-road analysis for the breakdown.

The data coverage page lists the exact site counts loaded per state. Signups are open, and every new account starts with a 3-day free trial, no card needed; see pricing for what a plan costs after that.

Why rig-aware matters

The Western states have thousands of dispersed camping sites, but reaching many of them requires high clearance or 4×4 capability. Generic camping finders don’t tell you that. They show you sites your passenger car can’t reach. Camprtron does.

Our access-type data comes from USFS Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUM), enriched with PostGIS spatial analysis. Every site carries a suitability rating for passenger car, high clearance, and 4×4 capable rigs. You set your rig; we surface the suitability rating and rank accordingly, a tag and a warning, never a filter that hides sites.

What we cover

Dispersed camping on National Forest, BLM, and state-managed public land across 50 states across the Mountain West, New England, Texas, the Pacific Northwest, California, the Great Plains, the Mid-Atlantic North, the Northwoods, the Ozarks, Appalachia North, Appalachia South, the Gulf South, the Ohio Valley, Alaska, and Hawaii, plus developed campgrounds from the Recreation Information Database (RIDB). We cover elevation, seasonal windows, water proximity, and fire-closure overlaps. Derived from authoritative government data, never crowdsourced.

Our data

All data comes from public-domain government sources: USFS, BLM, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, and Recreation.gov. We run PostGIS spatial analysis and publish our methodology openly. See Data & Methodology for details.

Contact

Questions, Comments or Concerns? Email us at social@camprtron.com.