It starts at the pulloff ten miles north of Fort Bragg, after you go through Cleone and Inglenook and right where the highway comes back out to the ocean after an inland detour around sand dunes. There is an eleven mile stretch of highway north of Fort Bragg, CA that has the requisite combination of day and night spots to allow you to stay right on the water, day and night, while obeying all applicable regulations. This is Kibesellah Rock, so big it has a flat spot at the top with soil and vegetation. Stay out of small towns, make sure you are outside the city limits of them before you try to spend the night. They are great day spots, but be out of town by sundown. Don’t try to boondock in state parks or vista points. Good boondocking spots are defined by what they are not. Then there are all the municipal and county exceptions to this statewide rule. First and foremost, there’s the California Vehicle Code dealing with how long you can park (not camp, park) alongside highways on the right of way. To understand this, you have to look at the tangle of regulations governing boondocking. There were spots here and there north of Santa Cruz where it was technically legal, but they weren’t the combination of day and night spots necessary to put together a nice long stay. Finally! After over a month of working our way up the California coast from Cambria on Highway 1, the Pacific Coast Highway, we’ve hit a stretch where you can honest to goodness boondock – camp right on the side of the highway overlooking the ocean.
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