Hancock Camping

[ChacoTaco]

Is there really anywhere to camp along the Hancock Notch Trail? May drive up tomorrow late afternoon and stretch out for a nite hike and try to pitch somewhere along the way back to the trailhead so I can get up and out early and drive up to The Mt Hale Trailhead and do an ethan pond Zealand AZ loop over nighter. Camping? Hancock Notch or Cedar Brook Camping?
Thanks

 

[RoySwkr]

There are plenty of flat places along the HN Tr, note that camping is forbidden near the trailhead and near the CB Tr
http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5363715.pdf

 

[ChacoTaco]

There are plenty of flat places along the HN Tr, note that camping is forbidden near the trailhead and near the CB Tr
http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5363715.pdf

I figure if I go up and lollipop back around to Hancock Notch trail and go somewhere in that zone between Cedar and the Trailhead that would be considered ok. I am def trying to make sure all rules are observed.

 

[Raymond]

There were obvious campsites five years ago along the drainage from Mount Huntington that is near the Hancock Notch/Cedar Brook trails junction, but I don’t know if they were more than 200 feet from the trails or not.

 

[bryan]

once you are about .75 in from the kanc there should be decent opportunities in places to the west side of the trail. the ridiculously large bootleg area at the cedar brook junction gets a lot of use and is technically outside of the forest protection area that extends from the junction to hancock loop trail.

bryan