Terms

The short version

Overlanding Life publishes maps, guides and a directory to help you plan vehicle-based travel. Use them to plan. Do not treat them as permission, as a survey, or as a promise about what you will find when you get there.

Planning aids, not statements of access

Land boundaries on our maps are approximate and come from public agency services that change without notice. A road shown on a map may be closed, washed out, gated or private. A campground may be full, closed for the season or closed for a fire. Rules, fees, permits and stay limits are set by the office that manages the ground and can change at any time.

Before you go, confirm access, conditions, closures, fire restrictions and permits with the managing office. Every destination, route and campground page links to it. You are responsible for knowing and following the rules where you travel, and for staying off private land and land closed to vehicles.

Do not skipTravel away from pavement carries real risk: weather, remoteness, vehicle failure, injury. Nothing on this site replaces training, preparation, current official information and your own judgment.

Know-how and vehicle guides

Our guides to recovery, tire pressure, repair, winter travel and similar subjects are introductions. Reading is not training. Techniques such as winching and vehicle recovery can injure or kill when done wrong. Learn them hands-on from a qualified instructor, and follow the instructions of the maker of your equipment and your vehicle.

Vehicle figures are the manufacturer’s, for the model year and configuration named beside them. Your vehicle’s own placard and owner’s manual govern what it can carry and tow.

The directory and quote requests

Businesses in the directory are independent of Overlanding Life. A listing is not an endorsement, a warranty or a recommendation. Check a business’s licences, insurance and references yourself, and put the scope, price and schedule of any work in writing with them.

When you send a quote request, you ask us to pass your project details and contact details to businesses that do that kind of work. Any agreement you make is between you and the business.

What you send us

When you send a correction, a build, a club, an event or a message, you confirm that it is yours to send and is true as far as you know. You let us edit it for length and clarity and publish it on Overlanding Life, with your name only if you agreed to that. Nothing you send is published without a person reading it first, and we can decline anything.

Do not send anything unlawful, anything that is someone else’s private information, or photographs you do not have the right to share.

Accounts and trips

If you create an account, you sign in with a link sent to your email address, so keep that mailbox secure. Trips and waypoints you save are private unless you create a share link, and anyone who has that link can see the trip until you turn the link off. Think before sharing where you are or will be. You can delete your account and everything in it at any time.

Our content

The writing, design and original data work on this site belong to Overlanding Life. You may quote short passages with a link back. Agency data shown on the maps belongs to the public or to the agencies named on the map. Photographs are licensed and credited in our photography ledger and may not be reused from here.

No warranty

The site is provided as it is. We work hard to be accurate and we fix what we find to be wrong, but we do not warrant that the site is complete, current or free of error, and to the extent the law allows we are not liable for loss or damage arising from its use. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

We may change these terms as the site changes. The date below shows when they were last reviewed.