American Adventurer
Field guides

The forests we camp in

Our free campsites sit across 86 national forests. Here's a growing field guide to each — its story, its wildlife, and the stuff that makes it worth the drive. 21 live

Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest

MT · 1150 camps · 3,614,456 ac
Beaverhead-Deerlodge is Montana's largest national forest -- more than three million acres of Continental Divide high country in the state's southwest

Idaho Panhandle National Forests

ID,MT,WA · 974 camps · 2,943,333 ac
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests cover about two and a half million acres across the top of Idaho, spilling a little into Montana and Washington -

Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest

MT · 908 camps · 3,177,729 ac
Helena-Lewis and Clark is a big, two-part Montana forest -- close to three million acres split between a scatter of 'island' mountain ranges across ce

Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest

ID,MT · 876 camps · 4,072,795 ac
The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests spread across about four million acres of north-central Idaho, up against the Montana line -- two old forest

Custer Gallatin National Forest

MT,SD,WY · 872 camps · 3,412,203 ac
Custer Gallatin is a sprawling forest that runs from the wild northern doorstep of Yellowstone all the way east to the pine-covered buttes of the Dako

Kootenai National Forest

ID,MT · 465 camps · 2,622,042 ac
The Kootenai wraps up the far northwest corner of Montana -- about 2.2 million acres of national forest, with a thin slice, some fifty thousand acres,

Flathead National Forest

MT · 396 camps · 2,651,693 ac
The Flathead sprawls across northwestern Montana, wrapping the wild west and south edges of Glacier National Park with a couple of million acres of hi

Lolo National Forest

ID,MT · 301 camps · 2,625,457 ac
Lolo National Forest wraps the mountains around Missoula, Montana -- on the order of two million acres of northern-Rockies country, from ponderosa ben

Superior National Forest

MN · 286 camps · 3,886,760 ac
Superior National Forest sprawls across the far northeastern 'Arrowhead' of Minnesota -- more than three million acres of North Woods and ancient bedr

Bitterroot National Forest

ID,MT,WY · 277 camps · 1,664,512 ac
Bitterroot National Forest runs along the Montana-Idaho border in the northern Rockies, wrapped around the Bitterroot Valley in southwest Montana -- a

Bridger-Teton National Forest

WY · 85 camps · 3,466,359 ac
Bridger-Teton is one of the largest national forests in the lower 48 -- more than three million acres of western Wyoming wrapped around the wild edges

Tahoe National Forest

CA · 83 camps · 1,181,139 ac
Tahoe National Forest covers a roughly 1.2-million-acre stretch of the northern Sierra Nevada north and west of Lake Tahoe -- granite ridges, deep Gol

Chippewa National Forest

MN · 82 camps · 1,598,139 ac
Chippewa National Forest is Minnesota lake country near the headwaters of the Mississippi -- more than 1,300 lakes, tall red and white pines, and one

Sierra National Forest

CA · 52 camps · 1,418,789 ac
Sierra National Forest covers about 1.3 million acres of the western Sierra Nevada in central California, filling the wild country between Yosemite an

George Washington and Jefferson National Forest

VA,WV · 49 camps · 3,487,961 ac
The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests roll across about 1.8 million acres of the Virginia Appalachians -- the long parallel ridges of t

National Forests in North Carolina

NC,TN · 37 camps · 3,026,236 ac
National Forests in North Carolina isn't one forest but four very different ones run out of a single supervisor's office -- the mile-high Blue Ridge p

Hiawatha National Forest

MI · 34 camps · 1,300,320 ac
Hiawatha National Forest is a north-woods sprawl across Michigan's Upper Peninsula, split into two separate units and famous for one thing above all:

Umpqua National Forest

OR · 33 camps · 1,035,836 ac
Umpqua National Forest sprawls across close to a million acres of the western Cascade slopes in southwest Oregon, a country of deep old-growth canyons

Payette National Forest

ID,OR · 32 camps · 2,407,306 ac
Payette National Forest covers about 2.3 million acres of rugged west-central Idaho, climbing from the deep granite canyons of the Salmon River -- the

Monongahela National Forest

WV · 32 camps · 1,703,732 ac
Monongahela National Forest blankets the high Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia -- more than 900,000 acres of rugged, grown-back forest tha

Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests

CO · 25 camps · 3,153,199 ac
The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison -- three national forests run as one unit out of Delta, Colorado -- cover more than three million acres of th

Shasta-Trinity National Forest

CA · 25 camps · 2,715,499 ac
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Sequoia National Forest

CA · 24 camps · 1,160,053 ac
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Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests

GA · 22 camps · 1,796,316 ac
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Mark Twain National Forest

MO · 20 camps · 3,071,296 ac
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National Forests in Florida

FL · 20 camps · 1,423,182 ac
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Cherokee National Forest

NC,TN · 17 camps · 1,228,297 ac
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Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests

OR · 17 camps · 1,852,705 ac
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Salmon-Challis National Forest

ID · 16 camps · 4,396,382 ac
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San Bernardino National Forest

CA · 15 camps · 805,482 ac
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Lassen National Forest

CA · 14 camps · 1,488,711 ac
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Six Rivers National Forest

CA · 11 camps · 1,273,948 ac
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Huron-Manistee National Forest

MI · 11 camps · 2,028,484 ac
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Daniel Boone National Forest

KY · 10 camps · 2,043,072 ac
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White Mountain National Forest

NH · 10 camps · 946,821 ac
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Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

WA · 9 camps · 2,025,595 ac
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Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest

WA · 9 camps · 3,858,129 ac
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Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests

AZ · 9 camps · 2,110,687 ac
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Stanislaus National Forest

CA · 8 camps · 1,090,354 ac
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Fishlake National Forest

UT · 8 camps · 1,787,975 ac
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Boise National Forest

ID · 8 camps · 2,526,862 ac
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Prescott National Forest

AZ · 8 camps · 1,411,550 ac
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Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest

UT · 7 camps · 2,912,959 ac
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Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest

CA · 7 camps · 6,704,352 ac
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Tongass National Forest

AK · 6 camps · 17,700,541 ac
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National Forests in Alabama

AL · 6 camps · 1,289,512 ac
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Inyo National Forest

CA · 5 camps · 2,097,006 ac
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Los Padres National Forest

CA · 5 camps · 1,970,265 ac
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Colville National Forest

WA · 5 camps · 1,752,994 ac
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Dixie National Forest

UT · 5 camps · 1,711,285 ac
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Ashley National Forest

UT,WY · 5 camps · 1,401,247 ac
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Deschutes National Forest

OR · 5 camps · 1,870,116 ac
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Eldorado National Forest

CA · 4 camps · 793,652 ac
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Plumas National Forest

CA · 4 camps · 1,431,953 ac
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Shoshone National Forest

WY · 4 camps · 2,469,224 ac
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Caribou-Targhee National Forest

ID · 4 camps · 3,077,755 ac
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Gifford Pinchot National Forest

WA · 4 camps · 1,496,307 ac
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Manti-La Sal National Forest

UT · 4 camps · 1,414,385 ac
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Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests

CO · 3 camps · 2,491,783 ac
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Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest

WI · 3 camps · 2,005,629 ac
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Nebraska National Forest

NE,SD · 3 camps · 2,064,856 ac
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Chugach National Forest

AK · 3 camps · 6,244,689 ac
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Pike and San Isabel National Forests

CO · 3 camps · 3,968,994 ac
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Tonto National Forest

AZ · 3 camps · 2,966,417 ac
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Rio Grande National Forest

CO · 3 camps · 1,937,280 ac
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Mendocino National Forest

CA · 3 camps · 1,073,580 ac
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Mt. Hood National Forest

OR · 2 camps · 1,060,159 ac
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Coronado National Forest

AZ · 2 camps · 1,785,091 ac
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Santa Fe National Forest

NM · 2 camps · 1,681,821 ac
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Fremont-Winema National Forest

OR · 2 camps · 2,815,967 ac
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Sawtooth National Forest

ID,UT · 2 camps · 2,190,139 ac
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Shawnee National Forest

IL · 2 camps · 930,027 ac
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Cibola National Forest

NM,OK · 2 camps · 3,215,659 ac
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White River National Forest

CO · 2 camps · 2,482,711 ac
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Dakota Prairie Grasslands

ND · 1 camps · 1,384,970 ac
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Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area

KY · 1 camps · 171,280 ac
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Bighorn National Forest

WY · 1 camps · 1,112,947 ac
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San Juan National Forest

CO · 1 camps · 2,094,538 ac
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Kisatchie National Forest

LA · 1 camps · 1,063,028 ac
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Allegheny National Forest

PA · 1 camps · 740,873 ac
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Carson National Forest

NM · 1 camps · 1,592,477 ac
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Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests

VT · 1 camps · 854,081 ac
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National Forests in Texas

TX · 1 camps · 1,921,499 ac
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Hoosier National Forest

IN · 1 camps · 646,948 ac
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Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

OR · 1 camps · 2,525,292 ac
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Siuslaw National Forest

OR · 1 camps · 835,599 ac
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