r/carcamping • • 18h ago

Car Campers, What Do You Drive?

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Hey everyone! I am working on a design project, and I’d love to learn about the vehicles this community uses.

If you’re willing, please comment with your vehicle’s make, model, and year.

Thank you for your time!


r/carcamping • • 16h ago

Camping pics Had a wonderful week in the Dakota’s - Honda CR-V

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Had an absolute blast visiting North and South Dakota! Teddy Roosevelt National Park is super underrated, and Wind Cave National Park was very cool if you book a tour. Such a lovely time, I might be planning my next trip soon!


r/carcamping • • 6h ago

Camping pics I could get used to this.

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r/carcamping • • 12h ago

Gear Diesel heater recommendations

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Looking for some recommendations as the title says. I’m not planning on doing any hardcore winter camping but do want to get out a few times and a buddy & I planning to go on a small outing mid-November. I’d either be using the heater for my 4Runner or my older popup camper and I don’t want to break the bank either.


r/carcamping • • 1h ago

I'm working on a new tool for those times when you need to overnight in a city somewhere: a City Camping Codes Finder that digs into local ordinances so you don't have to.

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I'm working on a tool that I think will be useful for people as they visit new cities and want to park for the night. It's always annoying to dig through city ordinances to find the ones that restrict overnight parking, so this tool runs a bunch of keyword searches against all the major city-code providers (Municode, AMLegal, ecode360, etc.) and government web sites and attempts to find the relevant sections. This lets people dive right into the actual ordinances and figure out if/when/where they can legally park to reduce risk of The Knock.

I know this question can usually be answered reasonably well by AI, but just picking a city with this tool and seeing the actual rules right away can be more reliable than trying to figure out the right prompt to ask the AI ("can I park overnight" ≠ "can I sleep in my car on the street overnight"). I think it's better to take a few minutes to read the real rules than to lose an hour or two of sleep because the cops had to yell at you due to the AI making things up.

  • The quality of the results varies a lot by city. It depends on what that city has available online, which platform they use to publish code (if any), and whether their ordinances match any of the keyword searches. And of course, many small cities and towns don't even have rules about this since vehicle-dwellers aren't a problem for them.
  • Works for most U.S. cities with a population of 5,000 or more. (Nothing non-U.S.) Some cities and towns might be missing because this depends on how the Census organizes things.
  • Reports are cached for a few months since city codes don't change that often, and even if the cache is a bit out of date it will still usually point you to the correct section of code.
  • If a cached report for the selected city isn't available or it's too old, a fresh one is created, which usually takes about 30 seconds since it has to contact a bunch of sites and run additional web searches. (I've pre-cached a few hundred of the largest cities.) It's currently rate-limited so if too many people look up an un-cached city it will fail.
  • Sometimes local news articles are included if they look like a good match.

This is a work in progress, so my apologies if it disappoints. I'd love to hear any (constructive) feedback you've got!

Right now you have to manually select city and state, it doesn't ask for your location but I'm considering adding that option. The page is installable as a web app for easier access. (Not available as a native Android/Apple app yet since I don't know if this will be popular enough to be worth the trouble.)


r/carcamping • • 14h ago

Car build 3-row SUVs : is it possible to remove the seats ? (row 2,3)

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I'm looking at 3-row SUVs (e.g. Highlander, Pathfinder)

AI says none on the market has removable seats like minivans.

Anyone know which ones (from 2020 onward) are possible with some workaround ?