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    New Wisconsin Hammock Camping (and Slacklining) Rules

    While volunteering at the Wisconsin DNR's OutWIGo event today, I learned new rules for hammock camping & slack-lining recently came out. Chris (new friend I made today, DNR employee and five year hammock camper) was able to edit them to ensure made sense. He said WI copied the rules from what Florida was using. Here they are....



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    A good idea to protect trees…possibly gone too far

    Enforcement will be hit and miss, like speeding on highway. While we are all for law and order, I’m always passed by drivers going 5 to 10 mph and more over the limit
    I wonder what the penalties are. If fines are low and sparsely enforced, then many hammock campers will be likely to hang their hammocks with no changes.
    Some of the rules make good sense
    Nails hammered into trees
    Hanging on trees that are not strong enough to keep from bending, leaning or being partially uprooted

    Maybe these rules are needed in heavily used campsites. Maybe the trees and bark gets worn out

    Good luck

    Next thing you know, they might make a new rule
    No fat people in hammock—over stressing our trees!

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    Hopefully, this is a harbinger that a hammock option will be taken into account when designing campgrounds. Around here, it seems the only trees left in a campground are those boarding two sites. As such, hanging a hammock can easily become a territorial dispute. In Zion last summer, we read that hammocks "were allowed". When we got there, we found they were allowed only in certain places and clearly not in every campsite. It seemed that if the only trees were on/near the border between two sites, they weren't allowed.

    For a while now, my solution has been to use the Jeep as one anchor and a reachable tree as the other. Now that I have Solo poles (and maybe eventually a Tensa4), I don't even need the tree. Mclean Metalworks is local and if I can arrange a deal with them, that's another hang option.
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    Also, by "removed by property staff" one may reasonably infer "cut down and destroyed/damaged/confiscated"; so I would definitely recommend a certain amount of caveat emptor when stealth camping.
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    I stayed at Rocky Bayou state park campground in Florida where are the rules were “hammocks are only allowed inside the bounds of campsites or in sites where hammock posts are installed.” I had a tent, however my friend was in his Eno tied to two trees just outside the campsite “limits” in some tall grass. He got yelled at the next morning but they didn’t fine us. Keep in mind, there were no campsites that had hangable trees within the ‘bounds’.

    I think we should do our best to be vocal with park management employees to start a dialogue about this situation, and inform them on the truth that (if I had to guess) 80% of hammock hangers will make less of an impact on the soil and vegetation than tent/RV campers. I’ve seen more RV drivers get out of their vehicle and start hammering nails into trees for tarps and clothesline than I have hammockers. Just as [mention]Phantom Grappler [/mention] said, it’s likely a protective measure that has gone a bit too far due to lack of information and a few bad apples in the hammocker community. Just like anything else.

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    The most damage I see at campsites, is hatchet, axe, and machete damage to trees near fire rings. Some of these man-childs are hacking into bark of large live trees. I suspect, most of this damage is done by tent campers. Many times the hacking is on trees that are ideal for hanging hammocks.

    If any new rules are going to be implemented—
    Maybe prohibit carrying hatchets, axes, and machetes in state and national forests.

    The damage they cause, greatly exceeds the occasional branch trimming done by hammock campers.

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    Time to break out the Tensa Stands!!!
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    Hi Karla, do you know if the new hammocking and slackpacking rules have been published on the WI DNR website yet?
    Last edited by Trinn; 05-30-2023 at 06:45. Reason: edited for clarity

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    So, I have one question: "Padding must be used around the tree at the anchoring point"... What commercial options are available for such a padding option? I have yet to see anything like this available on any vendor websites that I know of. I see things out there for slackline applications (https://www.amazon.com/ZenMonkey-Sla.../dp/B07496KY1Y) but nothing specific to hammocks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman857 View Post
    So, I have one question: "Padding must be used around the tree at the anchoring point"... What commercial options are available for such a padding option? I have yet to see anything like this available on any vendor websites that I know of. I see things out there for slackline applications (https://www.amazon.com/ZenMonkey-Sla.../dp/B07496KY1Y) but nothing specific to hammocks.
    I've been using padding cut out of an old sleep pad. I don't know if it is in compliance with the diktat, but it seems to work and is small and light enough for backpacking. I have an old gardening cushion (thicker) I intended to cut into next.

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