I used to back pack when I was younger in the NE. The rules in the NF were you had to be 250 ft from a road,river,lake or senic area. Depending on the park ranger that you talked to some wanted you to use existing sites some wanted you to make new sites to prevent over use. I found that useing existing sites were a lot easier and were established over the years and were in better locations than I could find by myself. When they were overused the rangers would put no camping signs up for a couple of years to let vegation grow back. There is only one NF around me and there are a couple of dozen existing sites that I know of that you can RV camp I would not attemp to clear new sites in these heavily wooded areas.
