Hey everyone, my wife and I along with our German and then 1 of our friends and his 2 dogs are looking for campgrounds in the u.p. we're looking to do some hiking with the dogs, but the .gov website says there's quite a few trails that dogs are off limits. We've never been there and idk if I should keep looking for other places or if this will be fine. Any input would be appreciated. We're tenting if that makes a difference.

Hi All, Canadian here looking to camp over in south Washington (closer to Oregon) in the next few weeks and I noticed that the Washington State Parks camp sites close at dusk. What does that exactly mean if I intend to arrive closer to midnight e.g. 11PM? (I'll be driving in from Vancouver BC after work). Will the campsite gates be closed and I won't be able to enter? Of course, I know the proper etiquette for coming in late.. i'll be super quiet, I promise!. The campsites I'm looking at are either Paradise Point or Seaquest. Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone!! I have really enjoyed this Reddit and want to try my hand at camping this upcoming spring using the holiday season to prepare with gear! I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on what I should get price range as a first camper who wants to give a shot but doesn’t want to spend a car payment on the gear just yet 😅.

I enjoy camping, but I honestly prefer camping in the fall. The weather is cooler and, if it’s late enough in the year, the bugs are gone. Anyone else feel like this?

So, I solo camped last night for the first time to test all my gear out. Floorless tent (with built-in bathtub style sleeping area in it). Thermarest NXT pad (R7 rating). Kelty 20 Down sleeping bag, rated for 20F.

Temps got down to around 36F. I wore some old Hollister sweatpants, a T-shirt, a hoodie, a beanie, regular boxers, and an old pair of long stocks. I naturally sleep warm. Honestly, everything was warm, however once 2-3AM hit, my feet started to feel just a tad colder. I thought my pad + bag combo would totally prevent that but I guess not. So, should I buy wool socks then or what?

Would anyone here know who might be the manufacturers of dune tents? The fly screen has ripped and needs a replacement fly for it but Anaconda has stopped selling it so unsure how to get a new fly sheet.

I can get a new tent, but our tent itself is fine, I've been thinking of either finding a big enough tarp to act as a fly sheet that covers all of it. Any advice would be helpful. TIA

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I'm a 36yr old female and I have been camping before mostly with family or ex's but im thinking about going on my own. Any tips or things to be thinking about would help

Dumb question here - I got a western field montgomery ward tent from a goodwill store and I’m not really sure how it’s supposed to be built - anyone have any experience with these or something similar?

I'd love to do a winter expedition, but not sure where to even get started with preparation.

Are there any books or videos or other resources that you used when you were first getting started? Anything you wish you knew when you were new to it?

Is this bag good. I would only use it for car camping so I'm not real concerned about the weight. I'm mostly wondering if they're actually good down to 0f. Are they warm/good quality?

My wife and daughter are wanting to go camping on the beach with our dog next summer break. We live in S.C. and they don’t allow camping on the beach or driving our Jeep on the sand either. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!! 🙏

So, I recently went camping. Floorless tent, aside from a sleeping area that's inside it. What I did was take the stakes out and all that so it was flat on the ground and then basically fold it into thirds and roll it up to put it in its bag. However, wet sand, dirt, leaves, etc are now all over the tent.

Soon as I got home, I set the tent up on some blankets to dry it off and get all the junk off of it. How can I avoid this next time?

Hey everyone,

Planning a week camping trip in my truck end of November.

Currently have an inflatable pad that constantly loses air... Or maybe the cold compresses the air so that it feels less inflated? Either way, can anyone recommend non inflatable options?

Thank you

This is the second state park in a month where the site is beautiful, trails are great and yet the whole thing is ruined by screaming children. Not children at play, running about, etc. but the campsites adjacent with multiple families and their kids just screaming and howling, screaching.

As parents why not teach your kids the importance of not running the camping experience for those around you. So incredibly frustrating

Hey y'all the wife and I plan on going to Massachusetts near Boston and are looking for places to car camp. I've seen many places that are closed, can y'all please recommend a place that's open and preferably not $70 a night.

I live in Virginia and I’m basically a city person so decided to give camping a try I want to know where’s the best places with practically no human activity

So, I did my first-ever solo trio last night. It's 6AM and I'm ready to pack up. I kinda need to go very soon. I didn't realize how much condensation was in the tent. It's a floorless tent, except for a sleeping area I used.

Will be a cloudy day today, so no sun to help dry it. What should I do?

I love camping! This is not my first trip out, nor even my first trip to this location. I have all the right clothes and gear. But, tonight, I'm so cold I don't think I'll ever warm up. I took my sleeping bag and hand warmers into my car. Still so cold! And, I'm a cheater!

I’m looking for a canvas tent for 3-4 people plus a stove! I’m leaning towards pomoly but I don’t know if there is somewhere I’m not looking, thanks in advance!!

Hey everyone! I went on my first hunting trip over the last couple days and wanted to show my pack and talk changes I'd make and also see if r/camping has their own perspectives. I'll list all of the gear first and then do a write-up for those interested.

Rifle

Underwear and Warming layers

Hiking Pants

Wool shirts

Wool socks

Warming layer

Rain jacket

Poncho

Boots

USGI Medium Molle 2 Rucksack

Toaks titanium mug

USGI MSS Bivy

Hyke & Byke 0 F sleeping bag

Thermarest Xtherm

Pathfinder Cook Pot

BRS camp stove

Isobutane Fuel

Fork/Spoon

Sea-to-Summit Dry bag

Battery bank

Medkit with tourniquet

Smart water bottle

Camo poncho

Balaclava

Hygiene kit

Olight Warrior 3

Fire kit

550 cord bundle

Packtowl

Leatherman Wave+

Sawyer Squeeze

MSR Dromedary 6L hydration bag

Food bag

Anyways here's the comprehensive list:

There are a couple things not pictured so I'll get those out of the way first:

Remington 783 with a 16.5 inch barrel chambered in .308 was the rifle I took for deer, it's got a medium powered optic on it and weighs about 10 pounds. Right off the bat, not making it into the ultralight category. This was about the best rifle I could afford at the time so it's a bit heavy for its caliber but it's crazy accurate and a lot of fun to shoot. Got a suppressor with it too which was a bit of a process obviously, but worth it if you're into that stuff.

Boots and clothes worn. Smartwool t-shirt was my first layer followed by a sturdier merino tech shirt. This helped not smell like death after everything. I've also got some standard hiking pants are convertible to shorts. Definitely more summer attire and the material is thin, but they're comfortable and dry quickly which was a huge benefit out in the woods. Boots are Bates Black Combat Boots with a zipper. I love these things and do a ton of rucking in them when training for backpacking trips. Also have some typical underarmour leggings and top. Poly pro "waffle top", intermediate warming layer from Black Diamond, and a Izod waterproof shell I got from value village (also secured that sweet coffee table holding all the goods for less than $50)

Pictured:

The pack is an Army issued Medium Molle Ruck with Alice Pack Strap replacements. I'm a veteran and have a ton of nostalgia for this gear and I'm very familiar with it and trust it... but the weight adds up. I think with the rifle, having a pack like this made everything else feel just a little heavy, especially with how much off-trail movement we did. You'll notice a trend with all of the military issued stuff is that most of the time it's just too heavy. Attached to the pack are a couple sustainment pouches (this helped with organization because the pack is quite full when loaded) Also one holds the bathroom kit which I wanted to keep more on the exterior. On my waist belt is a USGI canteen cup holder which houses my Toaks titanium cup.

In the pack is my sleep system which consists of a MSS Bivy, a Thermarest Xtherm Sleep Mat, and Hyke & Byke 0 F sleeping bag. The bivy is great and is a last layer of protection against condensation on my down sleeping bag. I was definitely getting every last degree out of that temperature rating. We got down to 26 on the coldest night and you could feel it if the sleep system wasn't organized right. The thermarest xtherm is a great sleep pad, nothing but good stuff to say.

Cook kit: Pathfinder pot, BRS stove (works great and is crazy light), fuel and a "foon". We made a really nice fire while we were out and cooked up a good stew with the steak, onion, and potatoes my friend brought. Hung it off of a stick used for a pothanger.

Orange Sea-to-summit dry bag which held my battery bank to keep my phone charged. Other things found their way into it when the rain inevitably picked up. We had to use OnX to make sure we were in the correct land and not drifting into other private land or somewhere where hunting wasn't allowed.

Medkit with some booboo kit stuff, blister treatment, and also some more heavy duty stuff like a tourniquet in the unlikely event of a firearm mishap or run-in with bigfoot.

What I've found to be the gold standard of waterbottles, the Smartwater bottle... However, I swapped it out for an essentia which is maybe a couple mm wider and fits my titanium camp mug perfectly. I recommend this setup more when you add the nozzle to it.

Black (somewhat) dry bag holds my socks to keep dry as well as a camo poncho to serve as a small shelter from weather when worn or setup. The camo helped me chill in a field for a couple hours to where a bird even landed a foot away not noticing me.

Balaclava (mostly for sleeping since I have a face exposed sleep system and shelter)

Hygiene kit: toothbrush/paste, tums, various meds like melatonin, benadryl, and ibuprofen.

Flashlight Olight Warrior 3 I believe. Great light. I love it. It's so great. Just bring a headlamp. I wish I had just brought a headlamp instead. The benefit is that the light is near indestructible and is waterproof and incredibly bright. If you have headlamp recommendations please share them

Fire kit in the green alice clip: Waterproof match holder with matches, lighter, ferro rod. As always, the lighter worked fine. I think I'll probably leave a couple of these redundancies at home. Despite the wood being waterlogged to the bone, we found some birch bark and spent a ton of time gathering intermediate stages to burn. Took 20 minutes of hands-on fire-tending, but we got it without needing to split anything.

550 cord bundle. Used every inch fastening the poncho shelter.

PackTowl. I'd probably leave this behind, it was so wet we basically just relied on fire to dry everything.

Leatherman Wave. Important tools are the knife and the saw, but the needle-nose pliers rescued a splinter.

Sawyer Squeeze! Great filter setup but we ended up surviving off melted snow.

MSR Dromedary bag, this is useful in a lot of applications and helped me bring some water out and also wash my buddy and I's hands after cutting up some steak for dinner. Surprisingly light, I recommend it.

In the food hang bag is instant rice, instant oatmeal, jerky, trail mix, Bloom supergreens + metamucil powders, and some electrolyte packs. Pretty basic.

So that's it! Right off the bat, I would have taken a small axe for splitting to make the fire more easily but I'm still really happy with how we got along without it.

Let me know any thoughts, recommendations on things to add/remove. It was a great trip, unfortunately didn't get a deer but ended up being a great trip with my friend and got some really good hiking and camping in!

Using one right now at a campsite for the first time. The Kelty 20 Down or whatever it's called. Has the mummy kind of style. Am I supposed to have both arms in, all zippered up, and the mummy part over my forehead area?

Or if I want to turn on my side or stomach, then what? More-so, do I put my pillow in the bag or lay on it while in the bag?

I wanted to go on night camping (tent + camp fire) to shoot a vlog. Govt websites shows no slots available till next year May. Is there any other option to book campsite’s?