If a multi-day trip, the location of where you expect to camp each night should be listed. Take a copy with you and leave a copy with a responsible person, so the person can alert authorities if you do not return as scheduled. On extended trips, plan to check in every four or five days. Overnight camping locations are shown on FLTC maps. They may be lean-tos or other campsites along the trail.
Campsites are generally primitive with only a fire ring.
Camping is permitted on state forest land for up to three days in the same location, provided you set up camp at least 150 feet from the trail, a stream, or other source of water. Camping is allowed in state parks at designated sites only. Backpackers are expected to share facilities at any lean-to or campsite with others desiring to use the facility. Groups of more than four persons should provide their own tents when camping at lean-to sites in state forests. In the summer of 1961, Wallace D. Wood of Rochester, NY, hiked portions of the Appalachian and Long Trails in Vermont.