Letchworth Trail...no hammocks allowed?

**Philsweep** · 06-17-2016, 11:33

I just called the letchworth state park to reserve the north lean to on the letchworth trail. I have been going there for several years and never had anyone tell me I had to sleep in the lean to. She told me no tents, I said fine then she says no hammocks either. What is happening? In fact last year they made a mistake with our reservation and people were already at the lean to so they asked if we had tents to stay in since we couldn't use the lean to. I know it won't be a problem since we hardly ever see anyone back there anyway, but this is something new.

**GreatBigDave** · 06-17-2016, 11:42

Is Letchworth a NY DEC park? Check out https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...C-campgrounds?.

**captaincoupal** · 06-17-2016, 12:01

Unfortunately, Letchworth (even the portion that is on the FLT) is a NYS Park:

http://nysparks.com/publications/doc...egulations.pdf

...and so attaching anything to a tree is officially prohibited. I wasn't aware of the issue with tents near the lean-to, but I've seen it and there isn't a lot of ground space nearby to tent.

**GreatBigDave** · 06-17-2016, 12:20

That link's a 404 cap'n

**captaincoupal** · 06-17-2016, 12:21

Originally Posted by GreatBigDave

That link's a 404 cap'n

Thanks! Updated with a corrected link.

**GreatBigDave** · 06-17-2016, 12:23

It's still 404 for me

**Philsweep** · 06-17-2016, 12:30

This wasn't an issue last year. I even car camped in the Letchworth state park campground with several hammocker's twice last year and no one said a word.

**captaincoupal** · 06-17-2016, 12:37

Gah! Fixed link. As for it being an issue, I think most folks would agree that a lot of these problems depend upon the rangers who are doing the enforcing.