Tent camping sounds wonderfully simple in theory. Pitch a tent, roll out your sleeping bag, and enjoy a few nights under the stars. Easy, right? Well, until you’re crawling around in the dark looking for your headlamp, tripping over guylines, or discovering that everything inside your tent is mysteriously damp. Fortunately, a few clever tricks…
Who says campfire desserts have to begin and end with s’mores? There’s a whole lot more you can make over a crackling fire, from gooey chocolate banana boats and cinnamon-sugar apples to golden, buttery peach cobbler. And the best part? You don’t need to be a camping chef to pull them off. Some take just…
Whenever I’m packing for a trip, whether it’s a weekend away or a camping trip, I always promise myself that this time I’m going to pack efficiently. And yet, somehow, I still end up taking half the house with me — only to come home having used about a third of what I packed. Camping…
There’s a lot to remember when you’re packing for a camping trip. The tent and sleeping bags are obvious enough, but it’s usually the smaller things — the tent stakes, mattress pump, lighter, charging cable or can opener — that are easiest to leave behind. This car camping checklist covers everything you need to work…
There’s something about breakfast at a campsite that just tastes better. A hot coffee warming your hands as the sun comes up over the trees, bacon sizzling in a skillet, or pancakes cooking while everyone slowly emerges from their tents – it’s one of our favorite parts of a camping morning. And it doesn’t have…
Good food is one of our favorite parts of a camping trip. A hot breakfast with coffee in the morning, something easy for lunch, and a genuinely satisfying dinner after a day outdoors can become as much a part of the trip as the camping itself. That said, camping food can be so much more…
Foil packet cooking is one of those campfire methods that sounds almost too easy: wrap everything up, chuck it over the coals and come back when dinner is ready. In reality, getting everything inside the packet cooked properly at the same time takes a little more thought. That’s where these foil packet camping recipes are…
A camp kitchen usually fails in one of two directions. Either you pack half the house and spend the first twenty minutes of every meal digging through a tote looking for a spatula, or you pack almost nothing and end up eating cold beans out of the can on night two. The fix is not…
Some of the best camping meals are also the simplest: throw everything into one pot, let it cook, and dinner is done. No juggling three pans over a small camping stove, no complicated prep, and – perhaps best of all – hardly any washing up afterwards. That doesn’t mean dinner has to be basic, either….
Camping can go horribly wrong around dinner time. You plan ambitious meals, then roll into the campsite just as the light starts fading, with a cooler full of raw ingredients and frantically searching for a spot to chop and prepare everything. I’ve done exactly that, and it’s why I now plan easy camping meals and…