Encountered a rly sketchy situation while car camping

I rly need some helpful povs from ppl who have been out here & some advice for safety in a life & death situation. I encountered something rly sketchy today & I was pretty freaked out. I am a female, young, alone & was car camping this past weekend at this designated camping place. It’s a gravel road with multiple pull out spots. But I was the last car down this gravel road & I was in a pretty isolated pull out spot. I stayed there the first night & it was wonderful. This morning & afternoon only 1 car drove past me & then back out, so there wasn’t much traffic either. I decided that I was going to camp here again tonight. Around 5pm, I started to prepare my camp for sleeping. Changed into my sleeping cloths & out of my boots. Now this truck starts driving down the gravel road rly slowly. At first I didn’t know that there was 2 men sitting in the truck. But about 5 minutes later they turned around & I heard them starting to drive back up the road.

Now this time, they were driving especially slow so my ears were already on alert. And then…they fucking pulled up right behind me & my car. Both men got out simultaneously like on que. One man muttered a low hi. And in the corner of my eye the driver gets out with an angle grinder in his hand & heads to the back of the truck & his friend has a big ass stick heading towards the forest. Surrounding me from my back & my side. I immediately without a thought, threw my boots into my car, my kitchen stuff that was on my roof in my car, ripped my window covers off, got in my car in a mess, & turned my car on & drove back up that pothole filled gravel road.

I parked in the beginning of the gravel road where it meets the paved street so I can get myself calmed down & my car in a drivable condition. And then the truck comes back out again. I made eye contact with both of the men, they weren’t smiling, just cold stares from both of them. And then they drove out of the gravel road turned left onto the paved road. Then I got the fuck out of there after 5 minutes in the opposite direction.

This is only my second weekend out car camping & I didn’t prepare that I was going to meet danger so quick in a place where camping was pretty popular. I wasn’t out in the boonies or anything of that sorts. I have an idea of the worst of what these men were going to do. But what should I do to amp up my safety? What do u guys do for safety? Have u guys ever encountered a sketchy situation like this & what did u do? I just need some other povs to help me in what I just experienced.

UPDATE: I am getting so many responses & many have been so helpful & I can feel the concern from many good-hearted ppl. So for that, I am forever grateful & I deeply appreciate the advice. You guys are awesome. And for those who encountered similar situations, I am so sorry. It’s a beautiful earth we live on but a dangerous world we live in.

Immediately I started looking into getting armed after understanding the dangerous world we live in. I called up a former marine friend to help me get some more info. I am from one of the states in the US that getting a gun ain’t easy. There are MANY MANY MANY loopholes to jump through. So it will be a process & I need to think very clearly if I want to go through all the legality of things of being armed in this state that doesn’t want their citizens to be armed. (Even bear spray is illegal here, it’s insane)

Now addressing those who call me paranoid or say they were just forest workers or me overreacting. Please, u were not there. I know my intuition. First it was 5pm, very clear that I was CAMPING there, so why pull up right behind me?? Everyone knows it is common sense for personal space. And mine was INVADED. Second, if they were forest workers why did they leave immediately after I did & follow me out of the gravel road? They would at least stay for 20 minutes to do their job…but that didn’t happen. Third, ppl who say I am overreacting…I don’t want to spend my energy explaining, u think how u want to think.