GRIP is a trip-planning tool for overnight camping on U.S. public lands. Search a national park or national forest and get a report covering permits, fire restrictions, stay limits, food storage requirements, and active closures — compiled from official land manager sources.
GRIP currently focuses on National Parks (NPS) and National Forests (USFS). These two categories cover the core of public-land dispersed camping in the U.S. — nearly all national parks require documented permits, and national forests are the backbone of free dispersed camping for overlanders.
BLM land and state parks are planned for later phases. Coverage is focused where the source patterns are established and where camping rules are most fragmented across official pages.
GRIP prioritizes camping-relevant public lands. Some locations are omitted or deferred intentionally:
A location showing "report not available yet" means GRIP knows the place exists but hasn't published a report yet — not that camping is unavailable.
If the location you're looking for isn't in GRIP, you can request it. Requests help prioritize what gets researched next.
Reports are researched from official agency sources: NPS park pages and Superintendent's Compendiums, USFS camping pages, and forest orders. Each regulation item cites its source so you can verify directly. Reports are marked Partially Verified until all sources are confirmed live — official agency sources remain the authority.
GRIP is an independent project built by Ryan Pettaway, a security engineer and public-land camper. Official camping rules are real — but they're scattered across agency pages, alerts, PDFs, and reservation systems. GRIP exists to make those rules easier to find, compare, and verify before a trip.
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