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    Welcome to the nanny state, where logic is left at the border, don't forget to pay to toll anytime you want to go anywhere

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    Make sure to let them know that you are taking your business elsewhere. Getting hit in the pocketbook sometimes gets folks into action.
    That is a very empty-headed rule more than likely en-acted by someone behind the lines.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shug View Post
    Make sure to let them know that you are taking your business elsewhere. Getting hit in the pocketbook sometimes gets folks into action.
    That is a very empty-headed rule more than likely en-acted by someone behind the lines.
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    I told them on the Facebook thread that this legislation will keep me out of DEC parks. It's sad, because they are beautiful....... but I won't travel from Ohio to sleep on the ground. I'm hoping activity on the thread may garner some interest in revisiting the rule.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmaduke View Post
    I told them on the Facebook thread that this legislation will keep me out of DEC parks. It's sad, because they are beautiful....... but I won't travel from Ohio to sleep on the ground. I'm hoping activity on the thread may garner some interest in revisiting the rule.
    Give the NYS DEC State Forests a try. They're much more lax when it comes to backcountry camping rules.

    Oh the whole, DEC does a REALLY great job with the parks system. I'm sorry you had a bad experience.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Atlas918 View Post
    Give the NYS DEC State Forests a try. They're much more lax when it comes to backcountry camping rules.

    Oh the whole, DEC does a REALLY great job with the parks system. I'm sorry you had a bad experience.
    Overall, I had a great experience at Forked Lake (other than it being 90 degrees with swarming black flies.) I definitely have and will continue to use the DEC Forest land, but the Parks are nice too, for when the lady friend and I want to have a nice base camp, and access to showers or other facilities.

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    as suggested earlier - I am dying to hear whether the tarp counts as a 'tent' in this situation.

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    I shared my own perspective on their page. I have Sleep Apnea. Sleeping on the ground is torture. I don't do it. It's a bed or a hammock for me. I suppose I could sue them over equal access to someone with a disability

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    If you guys would quilt getting naked when using your hammocks we wouldn't have this problem

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmaduke View Post
    They reply "Hammocks are not to be used for overnight sleeping due to their inability to provide the level of privacy that tents, trailers and RVs are able to provide to the user and other campers in our facilities."
    That was my first thought, actually. I'm sure a few people ruined it for everyone at one point in the past. That's too bad. A tarp with doors is nearly identical to a basic A-frame tent.

    So you can get naked and change clothes for your nap in broad daylight, but not at night to sleep in the dark?

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    Pitch a compliant screenhouse on the pad and your hammock/tarp next to it and ask them where they'd prefer that you change.

    I can actually see their point and imagine the scenario that brought it up, but kneejerk regulation is always unfortunate.
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