Summary -- there are public lands in the US that supposedly belong to us all, but private landowners have literally "enclosed" them by encircling them with privately owned plots. It's legal to BE on the public land, but it's not legal to trespass on private land. So unless you can magically teleport onto the public land, you have to trespass to get there. This allows private landowners to effectively hoard public land for themselves even though they don't own it, because only they can access it.
The catch is "corner crossing" -- stepping diagonally OVER the property boundary from public land to public land, avoiding the ajoining private parcels. However, it's legally ambiguous in some areas whether you are violating the "air rights" of the private lands as your foot glides over them without ever actually setting foot on the dirt.
In Norway this would all be obviated by the "right to roam" law that states that anyone may move freely through privately owned land so long as:
The catch is "corner crossing" -- stepping diagonally OVER the property boundary from public land to public land, avoiding the ajoining private parcels. However, it's legally ambiguous in some areas whether you are violating the "air rights" of the private lands as your foot glides over them without ever actually setting foot on the dirt.
In Norway this would all be obviated by the "right to roam" law that states that anyone may move freely through privately owned land so long as:
- It is uncultivated
- You don't leave any mess/trash
- You don't stay more than one night if you camp