Stewardship

Camp legally. Leave no trace.

The fastest way to lose access to public land is for enough people to abuse it. Vroam is built so that does not happen on our watch.

We show land status where we have it, and stay quiet where we do not

Open a spot and, where the record exists, Vroam names who manages that land and the general overnight rule that applies to it. Where no record covers the point, the app shows nothing rather than inventing a rule, which is why an in-town parking spot often has no land block at all. Free camping is shown as public land shaded by who manages it rather than as pins somebody dropped, so you can see where dispersed camping is generally permitted and where it is not.

The sign at the gate beats the app

We will not tell you a spot is fine. Land status is a starting point, not a permission slip: managers close areas, fire restrictions land overnight, and a rule that held last season may not hold now. The app says the same thing next to every land block, in the same words: policies vary and change, always check posted signs and local rules. Vroam does not encourage camping where camping is not allowed, and it does not pretend to know more than the sign in front of you.

You can tell where a spot came from

Spots contributed by travelers are marked as community. The rest come mostly from OpenStreetMap, a map anyone can edit, plus Recreation.gov for bookable federal campgrounds. Land data is separate from all of that: it never sources a spot, it only labels what kind of land a spot sits on, using BLM, USFS and NPS boundaries among others.

Leave no trace is not a slogan here

Pack out what you bring. Use existing sites instead of making new ones. Keep to durable surfaces. Camp the distance from water that the local rules require. None of this is complicated, and all of it is why the next person gets to stay there too.

The community holds the line

Spots people share are the best part of an app like this and the easiest thing to ruin. Our community guidelines cover what is fair to post, what is not, and what happens when someone gets it wrong.