About ApexRest

Hanging a hammock looks simple until you actually do it. How far apart do the trees need to be? How high should the straps go? How long should the ridgeline actually be cut? Is that shallow-looking hang really going to hold your weight, or is it quietly overloading the strap? How much is the whole kit going to weigh once the tarp and underquilt are packed in? None of these questions are hard on their own, but working through the geometry and the physics by hand, for every setup, is where a relaxing afternoon turns into guesswork.

ApexRest exists to take that guesswork off your plate. Instead of long guides you have to read end to end, the site is built around a set of small, single-purpose calculators, each aimed at one part of getting a hang right. The Hang Distance & Sag Calculatorchecks the angle you’ll actually get from your tree distance, ridgeline length, and strap height, and tells you whether it lands in the recommended comfort band. The Ridgeline Length Calculator works out how long to cut a fixed ridgeline from your hammock’s body length, so every hang starts from the same known-good geometry. The Strap Load Calculator turns your hang angle and total weight into the real tension each strap carries, and checks it against a rated capacity if you have one. The Tree-Friendly Spacing Calculator flips the geometry around so you can scout a campsite and know what distance between two trees will actually work before you commit to a spot. The Packed Weight Calculator adds up every piece of your system to a total and a rough weight class. And the 30° Comfort Angle Calculator starts from the widely-recommended 30-degree hang and tells you exactly how high to attach your straps for it.

Beyond the calculators, the blog and learn section cover hang technique, suspension and hardware, hammock camping, and tree care, and the Hammocks & Lounging Museumis a browsable collection of hammocks and swings worldwide, covered porches, hammock camping, and macramé hangers, with every entry, image, and fact drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

A few things worth stating plainly. ApexRest is an independent site, not affiliated with any hammock, strap, or outdoor-gear manufacturer. It is supported by advertising, which is how the tools stay free with no account required. Every result the tools produce — a hang angle, a ridgeline length, a strap tension, a tree spacing range, a packed weight, a strap height — is a general estimate built on the numbers you enter and on common hammock-camping conventions, not an engineering certification. Hanging a hammock, especially one meant to hold your full weight above the ground, carries real risk from a failed knot, an overloaded strap, or a weak tree limb; always inspect your own setup before trusting it. If something looks off in a tool or an article, or you think a calculator is missing that would help, the contact page is the place to say so.