The Trip · v1 · a straight corridor, honestly labeled
The Trip
Two towns and two nights in. Out comes every public-land camp within a stated number of straight-line miles of the line between them — with its legal status, the three-state cost verdict, whether the agency’s own season record says it is open on those nights, water, the nearest recorded toilet and the nearest open DC fast charger. Then print it, because there is no signal where you are going.
What this is — and is not
- A straight line, not a route. The corridor is the great-circle line from the first town to the second; roads bend, this does not. Real routing is v2 and needs a self-hosted router or a permitted routing API — nothing on this page calls one.
- Straight-line miles. “Along” is how far down the line the camp’s nearest point sits, from the first town; “off” is how far the camp is from that point. Driving is always longer.
- Season by the agency’s record. Some camps carry an agency-stated season window; they are evaluated for every night you asked. A camp with no record is listed as no season record — it is never called open on nothing, exactly as a camp with no fee record is never called free.
- Legal status and cost from the record. Every camp here is on public land with its own page. Cost is the three-state verdict — free, fee or unpriced — and we say which. A fee tag means a fee is charged, not how much; the amount is on the camp page where a source states it.
- Field-verified. Camps Dave has stood on are tagged; the rest come from public land records and are unverified.
- No signal? Print this page. The controls drop away and every camp prints with its address on davelalande.com.
- The same query by machine. The open JSON API has no corridor endpoint yet. The honest equivalent is two calls to
/api/near, one around each town, which cover the ends and not the line between: pick two towns and the calls appear here. Read /ai for the whole API.
Reading a row. Along = straight-line miles from the first town to the point on the line nearest the camp; off = straight-line miles from the camp to that point.
A “—” is we don’t know, not there isn’t one. Toilet = the nearest government-recorded restroom, pit toilet or rest area within 30 miles.
DC fast = the nearest public, open, unrestricted DC fast charger in the US DOE snapshot — listed, not promised working; the station and its plugs are on the camp page. Water = a named creek, river or lake at the site, and the distance to the nearest drinking-water tap we hold.