Honeys Park

Autobiography of my life. Stories from my childhood to going homeless, to eventually starting a free campground to help others, and explaining my thoughts on why I no longer boondock or vanlife myself. Details both good and bad of running a campground for more than a decade after starting the place as a home base to van life after losing everything due to a stroke and going homeless for years. Explanations of why I do what I do the way I do it at Honeys. An open invitation...
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Autobiography of my life. Stories from my childhood to going homeless, to eventually starting a free campground to help others, and explaining my thoughts on why I no longer boondock or vanlife myself.
Details both good and bad of running a campground for more than a decade after starting the place as a home base to van life after losing everything due to a stroke and going homeless for years.
Explanations of why I do what I do the way I do it at Honeys. An open invitation to all to come spend time with us.
Details of the dog park and memorials that is Honeys Park Arco Idaho. The entire place is a memorial to Scars dogs, and now memorial trees can be planted to honor others fallen fur kids.
From buses painted to look like dogs you can stay in as hostels, to a friendly campfire and a free beer to enjoy as you sit around and shoot the breeze with a host at his home.
Honeys is not a business, and doesn't really fit in with most descriptors. But it is the home of a former homeless man who wants to help others who might need a place to stay a night on the road.
Honeys has literally had thousands of guests, many of whom are detailed in the book, with funny stories and sad tales of the happenings around the park.
Scar considers Honeys to be an off leash dog park that you can also camp at. Dogs are his first priority, though he loves helping people when he can if they can manage some simple common sense behaviors like not poisoning his allergic dog with stuff on the ground, and not speeding around a dog park.
Honeys sits in a Rocky Mountain high plains, sometimes called a desert by the locals but it gets too much water to be legally designated as such. Sitting near Craters of the Moon national park and right alongside some real RV parks has had its ups and downs as you will read.
Honeys gets feet of snow in the winter, so winter guests are exceedingly rare. It also gets cold in the mountains of central Idaho, having seen the record at Honeys Park reach -47 fahrenheit. A little fun fact is that -40 is the same in both scales, celsius and fahrenheit.
While rare, Honeys has had bears walk right through camp, but they are more common just east of Honeys and north in the Yellowstone area. Mountain lions, wolves, coyotes, deer, elk, antelope and many other species abound in the mountains nearby.