Combine the very best of automobile camping (roomy tents, comfortable seats, frosty margaritas!) and also the most useful of backpacking (deep solitude, crazy scenery, swimming holes!) with these 16 available hideaways.

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Johnny and I also are prowling a glorified goat track close to the Galiuro Mountains in southeast Arizona, ensconced in a totally packed and air-conditioned Toyota FJ Cruiser. Strained we are nonetheless seeking the geographic rewards and solitude typically reserved for backpackers as we are by a trunk full of iced beverages, fresh eggs and bacon, sinfully thick sleeping pads, and the finest in folding chairs.

Weve come to the Southwest because its vast acres of BLM land provide some of the very remote, scenic, and regulation-free hideaways within the Lower 48perfect hunting ground in our pursuit of wilderness-flavored automobile camping. My partner, guidebook writer Johnny Molloy, reminds me personally of the grizzled bird dog with regards to this pursuit. keep reading