<html><head></head><body>It has been many years since I last went tent-camping, but my experience of campgrounds in the US national park system was numbered poles marking each campsite, a grassy area for pitching a tent, and a charcoal grill mounted on a steel pole. You weren't allowed to cut brush or to have a fire on the ground, only one in the charcoal grill, as a precaution against wildfires. There was a wooden outhouse (pit toilet) shared by multiple campsites.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 2, 2015 3:39:47 PM CDT, Tod Fitch <tod@fitchdesign.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">It may be common in some areas to allow pitching tents anywhere within a designated area. But I have mapped a couple of backcountry (backpack) trail camps that have a numbered post at each pitch, so I know that they do exist and we ought to allow for it. In the two cases I can think of at the moment they pitches were fairly spartan with only a cleared area and fire ring for each.<br /><br />Perhaps they exist in my area because of issues with fire danger: They really only want you having a fire or using a camp stove in designated areas. Maybe areas that get more rain don’t need to worry as much about that type of thing.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Tod<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On May 2, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist@gmail.com> wrote:<br /> <br /> camp sites with tents from my experience often don't number pitches but let you set up
your tent anywhere you want (within a certain area)<br /> <br /></blockquote><br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre class="k9mail"><hr /><br />Tagging mailing list<br />Tagging@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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