There are hundreds of campsites around the U.S. and Canada, and around Europe, Australia and many other parts of the globe.
Whether you like desert areas, evergreen trees, lakes and mountains, or even swampland, there’s a campsite to match your taste. You can camp out in the hot sands of Arizona or Nevada. You can head [...]

Common sense is anyone’s best guide for the first step in how to dress for camping. But there are some specifics that will help inform you how to exercise that common sense.
First, consider the season and climate for your site. It’s obvious to say that if you want to camp in New Hampshire in the [...]

The military has a term for moving personal equipment from place to place that backpackers have adopted – humping your gear. It’s apt. There’s something about the phrase that suggests effort, and that is certainly true. Hauling personal gear for camping and hiking can be one of the less thrilling parts of the experience.
In order [...]

Older sleeping bags were little more than a cotton and wool blanket folded over and fitted with a zipper. Modern sleeping bags have benefited from a dozen advances in materials science and ergonomic design, not to mention thousands of (night) hours of field testing.
Almost all have a nylon shell, but that doesn’t mean they’re all [...]

Camping should be spontaneous, fun and relaxing. But in order to relax and enjoy that spontaneity, advance planning is a must.
Camping has been a tradition for over 100 years, but back then it wasn’t camping so much as just living in the wild for a while. It began in earnest, as a widespread form of [...]

The three most common toxic plants that campers are likely to encounter are poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac. Any one of these can cause a painful, itchy rash.
Poison ivy is probably the most common of the three, since it grows throughout most of North America. Shrubs can be as tall as four feet [...]