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No, in a lot of areas when you are dispersed camping you are allowed to make fire rings. You could be camping 20 miles deep into the woods. There will not magic
by manzanarama 3y ago
No, in a lot of areas when you are dispersed camping you are allowed to make fire rings. You could be camping 20 miles deep into the woods. There will not magically be a fire ring there for you. However, if there does happen to be a fire ring close by, use that one and not create a new one.
- coherentpony 3y agoOne of the many idiosyncrasies of the English language. The sentence > Don't make fire rings where they already exist means both: 1. If there is an existing fire ring, do not re-use it. Make a new fire ring somewhere else instead; and 2. If there is an existing fire ring, please re-use it. Do not make a new fire ring somewhere else instead. What they _meant_ was the second interpretation, and not the first one.
- the_svd_doctor 3y agoThis took me a while. I think the #1 is what most people would understand.
- Zak 3y agoI understood #2: if there is a fire ring, do not make another fire ring (implied: use the existing one).
- solardev 3y agoI understood #3: "Just don't make fire rings anywhere because nobody knows anymore. Even the archaeologists aren't sure where the old ones came from." Besides, we're down to like, what, 4 days a year where the fire risk is low enough? Bring a camp stove and a LED candle :)
- alistairSH 3y agoPretty much this for much of the US. Fire risk is just too high, even if rings exist. Use a camp stove. If you really want a fire pit, go to a non-dispersed/non-backcountry campground that has nice large fire pits in cleared areas (still not zero risk, but less risk than some of the janky small rings I’ve come across).
- epiccoleman 3y agoI like the stupidly literal interpretation that you should not make a fire ring exactly in the same spot as an existing fire ring, but that any other spot, even abutting an existing fire ring, is permitted.