Dispersed camping Squamish Area

Ahoy, Canadians and Others In-the-know:

My wife and I live in Bishop, and we're finding summers, well, a bit hot.  We go up high, of course, to escape, but we're researching areas further away to escape the summer heat--likely next year for a number of reasons. We'd have to renew our passports, etc., but for Squamish noobs, what's the scene for free/very low-cost camping?  Besides rock climbing, we're into gravel/easy mtb riding and hiking. We do have a pooch.  Is it just a total zoo? Too crazy?  Too many mosquitoes?  Has modern #vanlife ruined Squamish and environs? From living at a destination area like Bishop, we're acutely aware of how thoughtless visitors can impact the scene.  What advice/intel do you have for the likes of us? (Bracing for incoming slag and abuse!  Hah.)

Kind regards!

Free camping options:

The area above chek is perfect, but has limited campsites.

Theres also beautiful free camping near Mamquam Falls and past Squamish Valley

Squamish, Index, Exit 38 & 32 all have similar weather in the summer. Occasionally Squamish is a little wetter. At Index, if it rains you can drive one hour East to drier weather in Leavenworth. There is free camping in all of those areas though you may have to drive 20 minutes away from the crag, and high clearance can be helpful. Vanlife did cause some restrictions up in Squamish, but the locals and the government came together and made some new low cost or free campgrounds. Last summer climbers and some homeless were still 'camping' at the Squamish Wallmart. Not my style, but it was happening. There is a ton of mountain biking and hiking all over the Northwest. Weekends can get crowded but you just walk to a farther crag. Dogs and mosquitoes are everywhere but nothing you haven't seen before. 

On the subject of heat, I've noticed a trend while traveling my Spring circuit to Indian Creek and City of Rocks. Trips that used to be comfortable are now too hot. May might be the new June.

Thanks, guys!  Yeah, hadn't thought about the WA climbing circuit.  About 2.5 billion years ago, I lived as a recent high school graduate in Bellingham, and climbed in Leavenworth and such.  Good times.  Methinks the Mrs. and I must head up thar.

Yep, we're fanatical about keeping a clean camp and too often end up having to clean up after others, which we end up doing a lot.  Grrrrrr....

Check out Powell River, heaps of climbing free camping.  Also mountain biking on the Sunshine Coast I hear is pretty decent.  

Squamish is indeed a total zoo and too crowded.  Though maybe all for good reason.   free/low-cost camping will cost you in time and gasoline as all that has been pushed well outside of town.  Show up during rainy weather or a sunday morning and you maaayy secure a site (walk-in more likely than drive-in) at the Chief campground at which point you'll have two weeks of bliss.  Mamquam campground is booked out on weekends for the entire summer.  If you're here to climb its probably all worth it but if you're really just looking for a laid-back summer #vanlife there maybe better options.   Living reasonably close I find most of my time in Squamish is decent weather windows before July in large part due to the camping headaches.