One app. Public-lands data. No bundles.

Boondock helps you find free camping on US public lands. It's built solo, on public data, for the people who actually sleep on dirt.

Why it exists

Most free-camping data is community-built. For years that worked. IOverlander, freecampsites.net, and forum threads carried the whole vertical.

Then iOverlander 2 paywalled the data its users built. The Dyrt and Roadpass Pro bundled their apps. Campendium got bought. Prices went up.

Meanwhile BLM, USFS, and NPS publish the underlying site data for free. Recreation.gov has it. The recreation information database has it. It just isn't easy to use.

Boondock takes that public data and makes it fast. One app. One screen. Fresh dates. No logins required.

How it's built

The site database comes straight from federal sources. Recreation information database (ridb) for forest service and reclamation. The bureau of land management for dispersed points.

Every site gets a freshness badge tied to the date that source last verified the listing. When the agency updates, Boondock updates within a day.

Site summaries are written by AI from the agency's own raw fields. They don't fabricate amenities. If the data doesn't say "potable water," the summary doesn't say it either.

Cell coverage uses FCC broadband data and opencellid observations. No user surveys. No estimates. Real reported coverage at the point.

Why solo

A team has to monetize a team. Boondock can run on $35 a year from a few thousand subscribers. That's a real business, not a vc one.

Small means honest. There is no board meeting to approve a paywall walkback. The price stays low because the costs stay low.

What it isn't

• It isn't a trip planner. Use Gaia or onX for routing.
• It isn't a campground review site. Use The Dyrt or Campendium for reviews.
• It isn't a bundle. One app. One purpose. One price.
• It isn't a marketplace. Boondock doesn't sell campsites. Agencies do.

Who built it

Andrew ladouceur. Background in marketplaces. He runs a holding company of shopping and rental marketplaces day-to-day. Boondock is a side project, built in the gaps.

The team is one developer, one product owner, and AI for the heavy lifting. That's the whole org chart.

If something is wrong on a site page, email support and it gets fixed that week. Real person, real inbox.

How it stays sustainable

The math is simple. Server, Mapbox, and AI costs run a few hundred dollars a month at the current size.

A few thousand yearly subscribers cover the bill twice over. That means no ads, no data resale, and no investor pressure to add features no one asked for.

Free users cost almost nothing to serve. All paid tiers cover the same compute. There's no quota math behind the paywall.

What's promised

Boondock will never paywall the basic search. The free tier today is the free tier tomorrow.

Site data stays attributed. You can always see which agency a record came from and when it was last verified.

No user data resale. Anonymous analytics for product decisions, nothing more. The Privacy page Spells it out in plain english.

What's next

More agencies. State parks where the data is open. MVUM overlays for forest service users. Better cell coverage in the desert southwest.

You can read the Field notes For what's shipping this month, or see the Pricing page For the four ways to pay.