I just want to go camping

I agree, but with the parks closed that still leaves plenty of places to camp. One of my favorite when younger was simply along the river batture.

Cross the levee and you're in another world. My cousins and I would go down into lower St. Bernard and set up camp in the batture and fish to catch dinner, build a nice camp fire to get some hot embers and wrap potatoes in foil and bury them in the sand under a layer of the embers to bake.

Do real camping - backpack camping.

No lie. I've been looking at overnight or multi-night kayak sites.

Can’t you park your rv anywhere?

I'm thinking of hiking the wild azalea trail both ways this weekend. I'll bring a tent, a sleeping bag, jet boil, and a few mountain house meals. If I dont do that I'm sleeping at the sherburne campground after fishing.

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No lie. I've been looking at overnight or multi-night kayak sites.

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The ouiska chitto is great for this

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Tell us more about the batture. Is that still a thing, i.e. legal?

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Can't vouch on the legality of it but I'm pretty sure down in lower St. Bernard, nobody is going to give a damn if you camp out for a night or two.

The problem right now is the water level of the river and how far into the batture it reaches.

I love to fish the river off the road leading to Braithwaite. If going down St. Bernard Hwy. past Violet about 3 or so miles there is a road that crosses a set of railroad tracks on the right at a red light.

It is a 2 lane road that passes a State Park on the left and there is another set of railroad tracks that cut across the road on a diagonal. Not far past there they have a road that crosses the levee on the right, across the street from a huge commercial business EBC or something like that. You can drive over the levee and park your car to not block that road access for others who fish out there.

Usually from the levee to the river there is at least 100 yards of batture with lots of driftwood for fires, silt for setting up a tent with no rocks under it and lots of willow trees overhead.

But, if the river is high enough, it may still be pretty wet in that area.

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So where can I still tent camp?

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Depends on where you live. In my neck of the woods they have closed all National Parks, state parks, and front country designated camp sites in the National Forests.

Fortunately in the Lincoln NF dispersed camping is still allowed. I spent a few days in the White Mountain Wilderness backpacking last weekend and it was perfect. Only saw one other dude the entire time. There were a handful of people car camping along the Forest Service road leading into the wilderness.



It will depend on your locale though.

Check with forest service and BLM lands near you, if you have them.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/

https://www.blm.gov/programs/recreation/camping

This site might help finding local ideas:

https://freecampsites.net/#

Private RV parks are open State parks are closed. The private campgrounds are the ones I dont like, a parking lot full of campers, Ill take a State park any day. Was supposed to do Indian Creek last weekend, cancelled. Chicot week after Easter, cancelled.

Wish we had more COE or BLM area in LA.

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With all this craziness, I damn sure don't understand all the rv parks closing

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I posted about camping in the batture in lower St. Bernard. Well I got on my motorcycle and headed down that way yesterday and it is a "no go" with the water lapping at the bottom of the levee and the batture completely underwater.

Just thought I'd update the post with accurate information.