PA>Mechanicsburg: help finding a site

[Knotty]

Wife and I are going to visit my daughter at Messiah College in Harrisburg, PA. My wife will stay with my daughter and her roommates but as the lone male I think I should find other lodgings.

Anyone know a place I can hang a hammock for the night in that area? A stealth camp would work, since my wife can drop me off at night and pick me up the next morning. Just looking to sleep. No campfire, etc.

Thanks in advance.

[JollyGreen]

501 shelter is maybe 30 miles from Harrisburg, depending when it is I could meet you there and drive you back the next day

[Knotty]

Thanks for the generous offer JollyGreen but that's a little further than I'd like. Plus it really is just a sleep type situation so I wouldn't be good company.

[nothermark]

I'll feed the thread. It's less than 30 mi to Pine Grove Furnace and around 6 to a State Game Land shooting range that one would assume might have some spare woods... ;-)

[Black Foot]

Pine Grove Furnace would be a good bet and close. The AT runs through there and you can camp along it w/o any fees. Here is a spot on top of the ridge that is close to a road and has a nice safe parking lot. The campsite is just south of the road on the AT - maybe 0.1 miles. I have camped here before some nice trees there and easy to get to - no water

Arendtsville-Shippensburg Rd

GPS: N 39.997474 W 077.404593

You can get more information and see some pictures of that area here:

Appalachian Trail Parking

reference PA section 13 around 8.4 miles SOBO

[mph5]

I think the yellow breeches creek winds around quite close to campus. I wonder if you stealth camp along it somewhere.

Marti

[Knotty]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I know Pine Grove Furnace from the MAHHA, but like 501, it's just a bit too far for this situation.

The Yellow Breeches does flow through campus. If I have time, I might get lucky scoping out a stealth location.

Still open to ideas though.

[2Questions]

What about State Game Lands 242...I'm not really sure what this is...but it's green on the google map or Gifford Pinchot State Park.
Donna

[Dutch]

Just stealth the campus. How much police could messiah college have?

[Knotty]

Considering what I've paid putting two kids through school there, they should let me hang from any two trees on campus.