camping in my truck in billings (apartment, for rent, hotels)

[jasonkramer]

Ok, I am currently in billings looking for a place to stay. I will be here for 1-2 months and I have yet to find a place to sleep outside of hotels which are rapidly depleting my reserves. If I get an apartment I will end up spending all the money I will be making at the construction site I am working at. It would be finically better to just return to Portland now. I have also tried to get a room here but so far, for the past 3 days, I have not gotten any responses from the craigslist ad posters I’ve contacted. Therefore it looks like I may be living in my truck for a few days. So, does anyone know of any places in billings where I will not get in trouble if I park and sleep over night?

[historyfan]

Billings KOA Montana - Welcome to the World's First KOA
There are campgrounds such as KOA that have all sorts of rates/amenities. It might be option as it gets warmer. Tent camping is about $25 night but they may have deals for multiple nights. As it warms up state & national forest campgrounds will open & rates at those are less but have fewer amenities. Maybe somehow who camps will respond with better answers. Good luck.

[MTSilvertip]

Some of the fishing access sites allow overnight camping as well. Some have a fee, some don't. Usually the fee is usually pretty reasonable, but depends on the site and amenities available. There are 103 fishing access sites that allow camping.

[SIZE=3]Introduction to Montana's Fishing Access Sites - Montana Fish[/SIZE]

Check with the local FWP about camping along the Yellowstone around Billings.

[DontLookPhoto]

There should be plenty of nice spots where you won't have to pay.

[jasonkramer]

thank you all.

[Spud6414]

This makes me curious, I can not think of one single construction or /transient type job that does not pay well enough to find a room or camping spot.

[rambrush]

I have to agree that is strange, usually these jobs pay big dollars to get workers to travel. I would explore a tent option in the woods somewhere.
Does not sound well thought out.

[DontLookPhoto]

I worked at a construction site for a short time doing the post-construction clean up and only made $10 per hour. If a guy has car payments and child support payments etc it may not leave enough for rent.
Camping for extended periods can leave a guy pretty ragged looking and feeling like crap so I wouldn't be too quick to bash this guy but proper planing does go a long way when moving.

For several years I had to live in a car or go to jail for not paying support because there just wasn't enough in my paycheck to pay rent and child support. I chose to pay the support and rough it in the car, I did the bird-bath thing in the restroom sink at my job and my boss was very understanding.

[Spud6414]

Oh I have been there, I can understand the money thing, guess it just did not dawn on my meat head because that was a long time ago.

Tenting can be hard on a guy if he cant find a good tent campground, but there are a couple on the river there in the Billings area and I know one of them has showers, its a Forest service one and not sure what the price is, but when I was there last it was like 7 bucks for three days.

[Spud6414]

Oh and stay away from Craigslist, it is mostly scammers.