Hammock User Survey

I am mostly in the Mid Atlantic area but I have hung in the southeast as well. If you can find two trees at the right length you can live the dream.

I have seen many people hang without trees close to boulders too

One tree and whatever else at hand.

Oregon, with occasional trips up to WA and BC, over to ID & MT, and down to CA.

I own Loco Libre Gear, a manufacturer of top and under quilts, and I can say that I sell a lot (LOT) of quilts in the western half of the country. That includes a large proportion in CA, OR, and WA.

NY, ON, PA.

PA, NY, VA, WV, NC

I will hang anywhere(almost). if it is physically possible to rig a tarp and two anchor points close enough together.

I sleep both ways- hammock in the East and tent in the West, especially if I’m above tree line in the Rockies.

I got hooked on hammocks in Kodachrome state park in Utah with an Eno doublenest.  Since then I’ve hammocked out west and in the east quite a bit.  Its not the lightest way to go but I think the most enjoyable.  Especially in a heavy rain storm,  I can relax better in a hammock than I can in a tent.  I have a bunch of hammocks but I still like my Blackbird if bugs are out and an 11ft 2ply open hammock for winter.  I use a cuben hex tarp by MLD most of the time and an edge with doors in the winter.  I’ve stayed out down to 15* in winter, even woke up once to find coyote tracks in the snow beneath me once!

Alabama and East Coast.

A hammock is just a hanging bivy sack. No trees, no problem. Bivy mode.

North East. All trees and rocks by me unless it’s an actual “campsite”. Just makes sense to use a hammock. And oh so comfortable.

Algonquin Park in Ontario, the Adirondacks, and my back yard.

California hanger here. I had a great hang in San Gorgonio mountains, East of Los Angeles. Definitely need longer straps out here, but totally doable. I have both an underquilt and a sleeping pad. If I’m going somewhere where I don’t know if there’ll be usable trees, then I bring the sleeping pad and then I can just go to ground and tarp tent.