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Motor Camping

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A practical manual for automobile campers, surveying the movement's growth and the cost-saving potential of camping while outlining week-end and long-distance touring. It describes vehicle-mounted and ground tents, car beds and homemade outfits, trailers and motor bungalows, plus tools, stoves, refrigeration, water supplies and medical kits. Guidance is given on selecting camps, securing permission, sanitary disposal, forestry regulations and state park provisions, with chapters on firecraft, various cooking methods, provisioning and camp-site lists across the United States. Practical examples and step-by-step equipment and packing advice aim to help families and small groups plan safe, economical trips.

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NEVADA

Municipal Camp Sites

Town or City Charge
or Free
Toilet Drinking
Water
Fireplace
or Stove
Lights Bath or
Shower
Beatty F Y Y Y Y
Carson City F Y Y Y Y
Elko F Y Y
Fallon F Y Y Y Y
Lovelocks F Y Y Y Y
Reno F Y Y Y Y Y
Sparks F Y Y Y
Winnemucca F Y Y Y Y
Yerington F Y Y Y Y

Nevada has a sparse population, and in consequence road construction is correspondingly limited. The state is best reached by the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway, along which are found Elko, Winnemucca, Lovelock, and Reno.

Nine of the National Forests are included wholly or in part within the State of Nevada. These National Forests, with their areas in acres, follow: Dixie (282,543), Eldorado (400), Humboldt (1,301,073), Inyo (72,817), Mono (464,315), Nevada [265](1,250,929), Tahoe (14,853), Toiyabe (1,907,280),