Hammocking turned out to be pretty easy. I found trees were fairly plentiful in the town parks where I camped and there were many of them: Chinook, Malta, Culbertson in MT and Stanley and Granville in ND. In some there were also picnic pavilions whose posts could serve to suspend the hammock. A pretty quiet spot in Church's Ferry, ND worked that way. I spent a night in some trees in the area of the Rt. 2 rest stop in Larimore, ND and alongside the Paul Bunyan Trail in MN. Once into the wooded section of MN finding trees ceased being an issue. I was really only forced to spend the night on the ground on two occasions, the former being the yard of a Warmshowers host and the second during a night of driving rain where the gazebo in the town park of Remer, MN was a drier bet than finding two trees somewhere.

Without an underquilt for the hammock (I use a 3/4 length Thermarest pad inside my sleeping bag instead) I sometimes felt the ground would have been warmer but it was never too cold for the hammock, provided I put on some extra clothes when needed. I'd say early morning temps in the mid to low 40s were experienced a couple of times.