A mass of uninvited overland campers has landed at an unlikely “campsite” – a public library in a small southern coastal town in Maine.
York Library Director Michelle Sampson said when she got to work the parking lot was filled with pickup truck “overland” campers.
“They were traveling as a group and one of them said they found it online on IOverlander,” Sampson told WGME-TV’s Brad Rogers.
“Overlander never reached out to confirm with us whether we were a campsite,” Sampson added.
An online camping website, IOverlander, “had told people what a great place it is to camp,” Rogers said.
Sampson said when she got to work Monday she saw one of the campers sitting on the library’s front porch using the electric outlet to charge his electronic devices.
The campers might explain the high electric bill the library just got, $300 to $500 more than last summer, according to Rogers.
The IOverlander app is a community-driven database designed for people who live or camp in a trucker van.
Sampson said the campers didn’t understand why they couldn’t camp at a library after seeing it posted on the app as a campsite with running water and Wi-Fi.
The library now has locked on its outdoor outlets and no camping signs on order for its parking lot.
