Every year I get a week off from work, and I use it to go to the Adirondacks on my bicycle. I much prefer at-large camping to staying in a campground, and here it's legal on state lands within the park as long as you're 150 feet from the road, a trail or water. I always prefer to camp near a lake or river so I can swim and get relatively clean that way, and I filter my water or bring it from a spigot in a town if I can find one. I like the quiet of dispersed camping, the one time I stayed in a campground there were so many people around that it was hard to sleep soundly. I have not tried stealth camping in the sense of illegally camping and trying not to be seen, that would presumably come with its own set of issues and I wouldn't want to do it.
Zach