BLM == Bureau of Land Management
(Leaving this here for anyone like me who had to google why Black Lives Matter has anything to do with tourism)
(Leaving this here for anyone like me who had to google why Black Lives Matter has anything to do with tourism)
One incredible thing about BLM managed land is that you can often visit, and camp, for free. Sometimes for months at a time. There's an entire subculture of mobile homeless folks who do just that. There's lots of snowbirds who summer around Mammoth Lake (which is actually national forest land, mostly, I think, but similarly loosely regulated) and winter in Quartzsite or Slab City or Yuma.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Nordic_countri...
"Allemansrätten gives a person the right to access, walk, cycle, ride, ski, and camp on any land—with the exception of private gardens, the immediate vicinity of a dwelling house and land under cultivation. It also gives the right to pick wild flowers, mushrooms and berries, but not to hunt in any way. Swimming in any lake and putting an unpowered boat on any water is permitted unless explicitly forbidden"
But, to put things into perspective, the BLM and the Forest Service have more land under management than nearly all of the Nordic countries combined (BLM and Forest Service have nearly 3 million sq km under management). And, the much of that land can be roamed, at will; some of it can even be camped on for long periods of time at little or no cost. So, there's no shortage of land in the US for roaming, though it's concentrated most heavily in the southwest. Northeastern states have been too densely populated for too long to have had a chance to get some protected wilderness.
e: Not to say I'm against allemansretten, I love it.