The Best Camping Hammocks for Stomach Sleepers

Part of our camping hammocks hub. This page exists because the honest answer to whether you can sleep face down in a hammock is: not the way you do in a bed, and not in most hammocks at all. A standard gathered-end hammock pulls its fabric into a shallow U. Lying face down in a U means your hips sit at the bottom while your chest and knees sit up the sides, which hyperextends the lower back exactly where a front sleeper already loads it. No amount of good fabric fixes that. What fixes it is a hammock whose bed is held flat, or one wide enough that the diagonal lay gives you a genuinely level patch to lie on.

Quick picks

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#	Product	Best for	Headline spec	Price
1	No image Warbonnet Ridgerunner Bridge HammockA bridge hammock with aluminum spreader bars at both ends, holding the bed flat instead of curved, which is the design side and stomach sleepers are actually looking for.	Best for side sleepers	Bridge design with aluminum spreader bars at the head and foot ends	Check price on Amazon
2	No image Onewind Aerie 11 ft Double Camping HammockAn 11 ft by 68 in single-panel bed with a 500 lb load rating, a removable bug net and straps in the box — the value route to a long hammock.	The most published length for the money	Bed size 11 ft x 68 in	Check price on Amazon
3	No image Haven Tent Flat-Lay Hammock TentA hammock tent built around a genuinely flat lay, for people who cannot sleep in a curve.	Sleeping flat off the ground	Flat-lay hammock tent	Check price on Amazon
4	No image Warbonnet Blackbird XLCThe long version of the Blackbird: 11 ft of body and a published rating to 7 ft of user, at a weight that still belongs in a backpack.	Backpacking at 11 ft	11 ft (132 in) body length	Check price on Amazon
5	DD Frontline Hammock KING SizeHalf a meter longer and 30 cm wider than the standard Frontline, with longer spreader poles to match — the DD to buy if the standard one is the right idea at the wrong size.	Tall campers and anyone who sprawls	3.2 m x 1.7 m flat (about 10 ft 6 in x 5 ft 7 in)	$119.95 · View on Amazon
6	ENO DoubleNest HammockThe most widely sold camping hammock there is, and OutdoorGearLab's best all-around pick.	Best all-around camping hammock	400 lb capacity	Check price on Amazon

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Two designs work, and they work differently

1. Bridge hammocks — flat by construction

A bridge hammock puts a rigid spreader bar at each end and hangs the bed from them, so the fabric is pulled taut across its width rather than gathered. Warbonnet publishes 44 in of width at the head and foot and 32 in in the middle for the Ridgerunner, and CleverHiker lists it at 10.1 ft x 3.7 ft and 2 lb 9.3 oz for hammock, guylines and spreader bars, plus 8.5 oz of suspension. That is the closest thing in this category to lying on a cot that hangs. The trade is in the numbers too: 250 lb capacity in the double-layer version, and bars that are awkward in a pack.

2. Very wide gathered-end hammocks — flat by diagonal

The other route keeps the simple gathered-end design and buys its flatness with width. Lying diagonally across a wide bed, head toward one gathered end and feet toward the other, flattens the curve under your torso. It is the same trick we describe in how to hang a hammock, and the wider the bed the more of it works. The Onewind Aerie publishes 11 ft x 68 in on a single-panel bed with no center seam under your chest; the Warbonnet Blackbird XLC publishes 132 in of body on a 63 in standard width; the DD Frontline KING is published at 3.2 m x 1.7 m.

Published dimensions, side by side

Read the width column first and the capacity column second, because for a front sleeper they pull against each other. The flattest bed here, the Ridgerunner, carries the lowest published capacity on the page. The highest capacity, the Onewind at 500 lb, delivers its flatness only if you set the hang angle properly and actually lie across the diagonal. There is no pick that is both the flattest and the strongest, and anyone saying otherwise has not read the spec sheets.

What makes a front-sleeping hang work

1. Hang at about 30 degrees. A shallow, tight hang makes the curve sharper and the ridge under your sternum worse. The Omni Calculator hang model and our hanging distance and angle table both start from the same 30-degree figure.
2. Use a structural ridgeline. It fixes the sag at the same depth every night, so the bed you learned to lie in is the bed you get. See hammock ridgelines.
3. Lie diagonally, not down the centerline. On a gathered-end hammock this is the whole technique, and on a 68 in or 76 in bed it is the difference between a U and a plane.
4. Put something under your ankles, not your head. Front sleepers get sore from the feet-up curve as much as the chest-down one. A rolled jacket under the shins flattens it.
5. Try a half-front position first. Most people who sleep face down in a bed end up at roughly 45 degrees in a hammock — chest partly down, one knee drawn up. It is less a compromise than what the shape allows.

What we would not recommend for this

• A single-width camping hammock. A 58 in bed has no usable diagonal for a front sleeper. The ENO SingleNest is a good hammock and the wrong one here.
• Spreader-bar backyard hammocks. They are flat, which sounds perfect, and tippy, which is not. A flat shallow bed plus a face-down sleeper rolling in the night is the one combination we would avoid — see spreader bar vs gathered end.
• Any hammock hung tight to kill the curve. Tightening a gathered-end hammock raises the force at the anchors and makes the ridge under you worse, not better.