Any of you have camps, or property other than where you reside?
 

I'm going to look at a little 5 acre tract of land this week. I have this dream to have a little piece of land where I can do whatever the hell I want. Shoot guns, ride quads/ dirt bikes, hunt, burn things, build things ,and really just a place to go to get away from it all. Maybe build my dream home there someday, who knows.
I cant really see any down side. We will pay for this in cash, taxes are dirt cheap, and you know what they say about land.

Does the place I stash the bodies count?

I already have a 10 farm where we do alot of the things you mentioned, but It is surrounded by farm ground and a busy county road.

My wife mentioned buying a piece of ground over in the hills (about 60 miles from home) where we could put our 30" camper on a cement pad and build a 20'x40' metal barn roof over it with no sides. We could have other campsites for our friends and family, with a big fire pit in the middle, and walking trails down to the river and lake where fishing, and drinking beer will be the primary forms of entertainment.

I have friends with properties. Much better. Nominally free to use and I can go to different places.

My main problem would be that I have to go to the same place over and over and over.

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^^^this. Oh, wait...:cool:

I thought that's what the beach at night is for !?!?

:)

Sorry to be the one to crash your dream but it'll never happen. Soon drones will be watching everyone and "doing whatever the hell one wants" won't be on the menu.

Be careful! If you build on your "Camp" and shoot guns pretty soon they'll call it a "Compound." Then it's all over but the cryin'.

;)

I live on Lawn Guyland, own a few acres in rural Vermont, and recently closed on a property in Merida,Mexico, I am also paying rent on a place in Chaoyang, Beijing

My place in Vermont is the only place would use my guns without an afterthought

Am thinking of buying a place in Costa Rica...

Guess I am doing better than I thought

ours is pretty much useless. 16 lots in Ruidoso NM. residential area..very very rural.

cant shoot on it. water needs a well. i will build a cabin on it one day. i will name it MAN LAND. i think. unless my wife hates the name.

Got me a dump hole out in the woods.

i have 20 acres on the Bay of Fundy, highest tides in the world. I plan to build a camp there this summer.

1/4 Section lake front with 1/2 mile of sand beach. I can shoot guns naked and jump in the lake when I want to.

We have 110 acres in upstate NY that has been in the family since my father (R.I.P) was a little kid, surrounded by farm land & mountains:D
There is a 200 + year old farm house that we would stay in, wood stoves & spring water.
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Down here, we just feed them to Gators & hogs..

Wow, dream of mine.

Good luck, sounds like a cool idea.

Check out the area closely. Pending constuction, road changes, zoning, polution.... make sure you can get out of it.

I would love a place where I could just check out once in a while. My last place was ~.17 ac, this is just over 1ac, next place needs to be at least 2-3ac. Strange how that works. Get off my lawn!

Yep. It's just a little under 1.5 wooded acres in Kingston Washington. It has 80' of no bank waterfront on Puget Sound.

I share ownership of over 640 million acres. I am always looking to camp on it.

Sort of. Wife's family has a nice farm on a river with a lodge and large kitchen pavillion. We just sent out invites for approximately 160 people to hang out with us this summer. Should be fun! (Note to Pelicans - It is about 10 miles from Mustang Paul. Never seen him but then I don't play pool.)

They also have a wooded homestead. I camp there with my boy and some friends.

Own it? Nope. Use it? Yes. Best possible situation!

A friend and I have been talking about going in on some land in Wyoming for this very purpose. Maybe build a little gravel runway some day.

From my perspective, 5 acres are not really enough unless you have some shared land nearby that you can use. Adjoining relatives or friends property or a national forest is bonus.

My family used to have a rural cabin...but every time you went to it, someone had broken in and stolen everything. Wood stove, fridge, even pump from well. Sometimes windows, doors, and other building materials. Finally tore the building down and it is primitive, but even so, every time you go there, others have been camping, cutting trees, dumping trash, etc. put up a big gate and they just hitch a couple if trucks up and pull it down or take a chainsaw to it. Unless you use it often or have someone watching it for you...it is sometimes more difficult than it is worth.