[SwellJoe]

Sorry, I guess I'm used to speaking with folks who recognize the context (lots of my friends are involved in Black Lives Matter, too, but the ones who travel know BLM means "free/cheap camping").

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.

[kalleboo]

Cool, it sounds like the Freedom to Roam we have in the Nordic countries[0], except in the Nordics it applies to all wild land, even privately owned.

[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"

[SwellJoe]

That's fantastic! I feel like that should be the law everywhere. It's kind of accepted in the US that unless posted "no trespassing", you can wander about in rural areas, without trouble, as long as you don't get too close to houses and such. But, the law definitely sides with property owners if they put up a sign saying keep out.

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.

[Thlom]

With the result that tourists flock to Trolltunga and other inaccessible sites with no training, no equipment and no hiking clothes/boots. They start too late and get lost and cold when it suddenly gets dark or the weather turns. The local red cross is called out and have to hike up to get them down again. :-)

e: Not to say I'm against allemansretten, I love it.

[bdamm]

That sounds amazing. Sadly, BLM land is not as expansive as the Nordic lands.