Choosing an Amazing Bug-Out Location (BOL)

9 Cheap and Effective BUG OUT LOCATIONS (BOLs)

The best bug out locations cost very little, they will get you through most disasters.

Most are not what you would expect to be a good bug out destination.

Possible Bug-Out Locations (BOLs):

A Hotel

Cheap Studio Apartment

Your Family

Your Friends

Land of Friends/Family

Campgrounds

Wilderness Retreat

RV or Camper

Purchasing Your Own Land

Hotels are Great for Short Term Bug-Outs

If you have a small scale emergency, try a hotel.

You should have contact information of hotels in your town.  Have information up to 2 hours in each direction from your home.  You will already be booked, while others are scrambling to find a place.

Hotels are perfect for house fires, flooding, or something else that only effects your home.

Keep an emergency fund in cash.  If you have a $1000 fund, paying for a place would be easy.

Depending on the disaster, hotels may be covered under insurance.

A Cheap Studio Apartment is a Strategic Bug-Out Location (BOL)

A great Bug-Out Location (BOL) would be a place you love or that you like to visit a lot?

If you can find a great studio apartment for a cheap price, it may be a good idea to rent it.  You can use the apartment as a vacation spot, and it is another location you can go to in an emergency.

Your Family can Come to the Rescue

Family can provide you with a place to stay.

In most emergencies, you just need to find a place to go that has an established life support system.

Make a deal with your family, before an emergency occurs: They provide you with a place to go, and you will do the same.

Build up a good amount of gear or provisions to provide your basic needs, and bring it with you so you are less of a burden

You Could Stay With Friends… For a While

If you need a local place to stay for a short time: less than a week or two, then friends could help you out.

Make a deal with your family, before an emergency occurs: They provide you with a place to go, and you will do the same.

If You Can’t Use Their House, You May Be Able to Use Their Land

Reasons that your friends or family may not be able to provide you with a place in their home would be:

Financial shortcomings

Lack of space and food

Because they don’t like you (c’mon now)

Your friends can still be good, helpful people.  

They may have land that is large enough for them to provide you the ability to set up your shelter on their land.  RVs would be a great option in this circumstance.

Recreation Vehicles (RV) or Campers are a Great Option

RVs and Campers may be poor homes, but when you compare it to freezing your butt off in a tent during the icy cold winter, they are amazing.

You could be having a decent night’s sleep on your tiny mattress, in an air conditioned shelter, instead of sleeping on the ground with all the critters and crawlers.

RVs and Campers may be used on campgrounds instead of staying with friends or family

With a small amount of work, they can go completely off-grid.

Another use for that RV is a traveler and place to stay on vacations!

Campgrounds are a Convenient Way to Camp

Campgrounds may not be at the top of your list, but they aren’t all bad.

You can comfortably us a Camper or Tent.  They have nice flat and level surfaces.

AC is available as well at many of them.  Here are a few nice comfort items you can run from a camp-side power receptacle:

Fan

Small AC unit

Basic Lighting

Heated blankets

Air Mattress Pumps

Small Water Pumps

Wilderness Destinations are Rough, but an Option

Most people don’t go more than a few miles in.