Arrastra Labs builds focused tools for people who live and travel off the beaten path. Small team, long view, and every product made to earn its keep.
Before big industrial mills, prospectors across Mexico and the American Southwest built arrastras: a stone-lined pit, a post in the center, a beam, and heavy drag stones pulled in circles until raw ore gave up its gold. The word comes from the Spanish arrastrar, “to drag.”
It was simple, built on the spot from what was at hand, and it worked because it never stopped turning. That’s how we build: patient, repeated work that turns raw ideas into something worth keeping.
Both names come from the mining camps of the Southwest. An arrastra ground the ore; a bonanza was what everyone hoped to find.
From Spanish arrastrar, “to drag.” Used across colonial Mexico and the American Southwest.
From Spanish bonanza, “fair weather, prosperity.” Miners in the American West gave it the sense of striking it rich.
From boondocks, “remote country,” borrowed from Tagalog bundok, “mountain.”
boondocking + bonanza = Boonanza: the free spot that turns out to be the find of the trip.
We start with one thing and make it excellent.
Free while in beta
Boonanza is the boondocking trip planner: find free places to camp on public land, plan the drive, and know what the weather will do at every stop before you leave signal behind.
More in the mill. New products ship when they’re ready, not before.Each product does one job and does it well. No bloat, no dark patterns, no features nobody asked for.
We build what we need on the road ourselves, then refine it with the people who rely on it.
Clear pricing, your data stays yours, and a real person answers when you write in.
Questions, partnerships, press, or feedback on Boonanza. We read everything.
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