Must-Have Boondocking Essentials
TL;DR: Elevate your boondocking experience with essentials like expanded battery banks, battery monitors, generators or solar panels, inverters, low-flow shower heads, portable wastewater tanks, LED lights, efficient fans or heaters, and WiFi routers or cell boosters for remote connectivity. Get ready for high-fun, low-stress off-grid camping.
If camping at an RV site is a fun way to enjoy the outdoors, boondocking (camping without hookups) dials that up a notch. More privacy, more options, more beautiful scenery. However, since you can’t rely on endless electricity and water like you can at an RV campground, you have to go in prepared. Think alternative power sources, low-power appliances, and water-conserving devices.
Below, we’ve listed our top 10 boondocking essentials to make your next trip one for the books—high-fun, low-stress, and everything remote camping should be.
1. Batteries
The larger your battery bank, the longer you can power your rig between charges. This means more time with the lights on, the fridge keeping your beer cold, and the TV streaming the latest episode of _Only Murders in the Building. _
And before you think, “I don’t need more batteries, I’ll just pick up some solar panels instead!” you should know that batteries are a crucial part of the equation. Solar panels keep your batteries full so that the batteries themselves can send power to your electronics.
Although your RV has limited space, we recommend adding to your battery bank if possible to get the most out of boondocking.
2. Battery Monitor
Yep, another entry about batteries (they really make boondocking a better experience). How much power are you actually using? How much is left? Are you discharging your batteries to their optimal level, or are you unknowingly leading them to an early death?