I love camping! I’ve even gone camping using only public transport to get to national parks. We have some of the most amazing national parks in the world, why wouldn’t I?
Nope, certainly not for the sake of just camping. That’s just misery with no fun. But I’ll go on adventures where having to camp is an aspect. But I’ll still make it as comfortable as possible. I see no point in ever roughing it just to rough it.
I did when I was young and a boy scout. We did frequently. now as an adult and living in Florida where the mosquitoes will carry away small children, not anymore
Yes, we go camping multiple times a year. Growing up my parents had a trailer but now we just bring tents. I’m 2 hours from the Pacific Ocean and two hours from the Sierra Nevadas. I prefer camping in the mountains. Sometimes we don’t even bring a tent, just put a sleeping bag on the ground for the night. Usually spend most the day fly fishing.
Yes I love camping, but sadly my wife is an absolute mosquito magnet. Each mosquito bite she gets becomes very swollen, extremely itchy, hard to the touch, and warm.
Needless to say, I don’t make as much time for camping as I would like. I only get out 2-3 times a year.
Absolutely love it! Of course there are several kinds of camping, and I prefer some to others. But totally get why people would choose any of the different types.
I am not fond of the outdoors, bugs, or sleeping on the ground, so camping is not my thing. I have friends who do like it, ranging from those who do backpacking into the wild to traveling with a huge tent and queen sized air mattress.
In theory yes I like the outdoors and all that it entails. In practice it’s a lot of work. If it’s hot sleeping can be miserable. Daytime you’re dealing with bugs and sun.
I enjoyed it when I could; my friends who liked it have moved away and it’s not as fun hanging around a campfire on your lonesome. I still keep a sleeping bag and tent in my trunk just in case.
Yes. I find it enjoyable. I’m not a survivalist anymore, I mostly just like being able to live without rules for several days. I spend it reading in a hammock for the most part, but it’s fun to pee wherever I happen to be and start drinking beer at 9am. I live on the edge of wilderness so it’s not difficult to toss a tent in my car and get out there.
Hell, no. I’m very much a fan of air conditioning/heat, electricity, running water, etc. Zero desire to go sleep on dirt and be where bugs live. Refrigeration is a wonderful thing! Hotels exist. Was forced into way too much of it as a child, very thankful that I have other options now
At this point the idea of sleeping on the ground in a sleeping bag is prerty unappealing to me. I’m happy to visit your campsite, but I’m heading home to my bed at night.
Nope, not even a little. I went camping in Girl Scouts a couple of times, plus there was an excruciating week of sleep away camp. That was enough. I like to sleep and shower indoors, preferably with central air and heating.
No, but my wife and I sometimes stay in our friends’ camper at a specialty campground. There’s a sign on the wall inside the camper that says, “Camping: Spending a small fortune to live like a homeless person.”
If we weren’t so interested in this campground, we’d never camp.
Our friends are really into it. I think it’s entirely too much work to attach the camper to and detach it from the truck (I drive a small economy car). It would be a pain to connect and disconnect the water and sewer lines and pop out and retract the pop-out parts of the camper. It’s expensive to maintain and store a camper. We’re much less interested in staying in a tent. If we had to do it ourselves, we wouldn’t.
I went from being a back packer, sometimes just sleeping outside in a sleeping bag without a tent, to a tent camper/car camper to a VW van camper to now I’m not as motivated as I used to be to go camping.
I used to enjoy it. It’s not the same anymore, and neither is my body’s tolerance for sleeping on the ground. I’ve camped in some pretty spectacular places, though, and I wish I could return to a few of them.
Yessssss….and no. I used to really love it, but now that I’m the person who has to clean and put everything away, i struggle to find it fun. Also, I need to go to the bathroom at least 2x a night, which can be tricky in the woods or scary if it’s the middle of the night with a flashlight and a vault toilet. I like my bidet!
No. I live in a hot, muggy, buggy climate. If there’s a threat of a hurricane, I evacuate. I don’t want to be in my own home in camping-like conditions. No. No thank you.
When we were growing up, my parents embraced camping, first in a giant tent, later a popup camper. The last time I went with them was 40+ years ago when my husband and I were first married. After that, we were done.
My brothers now have big-ass park trailers anchored in a nice camp area with a marina. One brother has a boat, jet ski, etc. Before we moved away (from our hometown Chicago to Phoenix), we’d go down every Labor Day, and it was pretty idyllic.
The reason it was idyllic is that my brother and his wife are great hosts and went all out to give us a good time. Even if I wanted to spend all the money to duplicate my brother’s experience, it’s a tremendous amount of work maintaining and storing everything. Also, cooking isn’t high on my list of things to do while on vacation, and they cooked most of our meals.
While we appreciate “glamping,” my husband and I aren’t up to it.
Love it. I get out alone as often as I can and love camping with my BFF. Im in my 60s and live in a place with amazing scenery and beautiful state and county campgrounds with hundreds and hundreds of miles a beautiful hiking trails, giant trees and a coast line to die for. It makes me feel so much better after a rough week.
Yep, I typically go camping about once a month when it isn’t freezing cold (and I live in the Southwest so I get to go most of the year).
I also once spent two years just traveling and camping around the US when I was a freelance writer. That was too much after awhile, so I settled back down and live in a house again, but I really enjoyed it for quite some time.
I don’t mind camping as a necessity. Backpacking, motorcycle camping trip way into the woods, that’s all fine. Driving to a designated campground with 50 other people as your neighbors? Nah, give me a hotel.
I was a Girl Scout for 11 years, and we camped at least once a year as a group. I also camped a lot with my family, and I’ve been camping several times with my husband. I prefer primitive-adjacent camping where there’s an air mattress and a cooler, but no electricity and I might also have to either trek for plumbing and a restroom or make do with what I can bring to the site.
I love being out in the middle of the woods with as few people as possible around, seeing three times the amount of stars I see at home, and listening to all of the animals in the middle of the night. I love cooking over an open fire, setting up and taking down my shelter, hiking and exploring all day, and I even love how smoky my clothes smell when I get home.
The only unpleasant part of camping is that here in FL, nighttime temps can linger in the 80’s F (~29.4°C) in the summer, which combined with the humidity makes it hard for me to sleep. But that’s easily mitigated by going camping mostly in cooler weather lol
I’ve gone camping once in college. It was fine. If some friends want to go and invite me, I’d have no problem going, but I have no interest or desire to.
I did it. It was fine. I’m fine never doing it again.
I am at the end of my camping trip right now! I’ve been camping since I was 4 months old and I’m now in my 30’s. I look forward to my camping trips in the summer, they are basically the only vacations I take!
Yes I do. I have a farm and I can camp comfortably and privately. I have a handful of campsites scattered around my farm. In the spring and fall I sometimes spend more nights outside than inside. But my campsites are almost as as comfortable as a house at this point, I’ve been doing it so long. I also have people over for bonfires and campfire cookouts.
I really like camping. I grew up in Brooklyn, so I never camped. My husband was from Colorado, so he took me camping when we moved there, and I really love it. We grab the dogs, set up our tent, and start a campfire. I have a hammock I string up between two trees, and I read in it and fall asleep. We hike during the day and read outside. It is one of my favorite parts of summer. It’s so quiet and comfortable and I don’t have my computer and my phone doesn’t work and it it awesome for a few days.
I don’t enjoy camping myself, but I’m in a wheelchair, so that is undoubtedly a big reason. I am far, far too fond of flat surfaces to push my chair on.
I love camping. Built a log cabin last time I went. Had a creek with good water, good soil, little bit of perfect. Can’t wait to find another section of perfect again.
It was 10-15yr old pine saplings, older dead pine tree bark, and clay mud/sticks/leaves. Took two weeks. Was solid for a year, minus the mud falling. Like 75 sq ft lol
It’s a lot more fun if you have other reasons for doing it. If you are going to summit a mountain peak then you might have a tent pitched down lower to make it a two day climb.
If, in my case, you go somewhere with friends to scuba dive, and you can also camp out, that’s fun as well.
If you are young, money is tight, and you want to drive around to explore a new state, then it can be convenient to just pitch a tent at a campsite as night approaches.
Just driving somewhere so you can sleep on the ground for no other reason, it’s not as much fun.
I don’t do it any more, but when I was little, I loved camping with my Girl Scout Troop. As long as there’s a decent bathroom at a camp site, I think it is fun.
I’m on the last night of a camping trip right now! Love it. I’ve been camping since I was 4 months old and I’m in my 30’s now. It’s really the only vacation I take.
I love camping. But camping is a lot of work on either end. There is a lot of planning, prep, usually at least a couple hours of travel. Then you get to pack all of your, now dirty, shit back up, travel more, unpack all of it, clean it, and put it away.
Juice just ain’t worth the squeeze unless I don’t have to be responsible for all that other shit.
I did when I was a kid. However I don’t see any draw to it as an adult. I’d rather spend the weekend in my reading chair with a burrito bar on my dresser and a really good book.
I’m not sure if what we do as actually camping as we have an RV-my spouse’s dream. I don’t really get packing up a ton of stuff from our house to turn around and put it in the house on wheels. Then end up in basically a parking lot with some grass, trees and other RV’s.
Do I like it? Not very much.
I’m on team backpacking. Watch the sun go down from a mountaintop, get a little fire going, sip some bourbon while hanging with family or friends. Absolutely gorgeous places you can’t get to in a car, and you get to live in them for a little moment.
Car camping is more of a means to an end. It’s a place to stay when you’re doing other outdoors things. Weekend of fly fishing? A campsite right on the river is perfect. But if the camping part is the main attraction, I want a view that does not include cars.
Love it. I think it helps that I grew up in the PNW where a lot of people regularly go camping and invest in good equipment to make it a frequent and pleasant experience.
When I was growing up my family would go camping half a dozen times a year, plus there was events with the scout troop and maybe a shared camping trip with our neighbors who were good friends of the family. Plus when I was maybe 15-16 i worked summers at a YMCA day camp. Loved all of it. Except for hiking. I always disliked hiking and still do. When I was in the scouts we always had long hikes planned and I figured our the best way to get out of them, which was that I decided to work on my cooking merit badge so I always had to stay back at camp using the time to work on dinner. 30 years later I’m a chef, so that worked out quite well.
When I was in high school I used to camp all the time with my friends!!! Our parents thought we were having wholesome fun. Now that I’m old(er) I feel like I need a bed and AC during the summer. But, I’d like to take my kids camping at some point. They’ve slept out in the tent in our yard one night the past few summers. I even bought a large tent a few months ago with the hope that we’ll go ( but I’d still prefer a sink/toilet/cozy bed)!!!
I loved it when I was young. Now I am old and creaky and don’t enjoy sleeping on the ground so much anymore. But my kids love it so we try to go at least once a summer.
I enjoy hiking in nature and visiting people while they’re camping. But I don’t like to sleep outside overnight because I’m worried I’ll be attacked by a dangerous wild animal.
I enjoy going on a nice hike or doing some off-roading or shooting and then getting shit faced around a campfire far enough in the middle of nowhere that I can see all the stars in the sky. “Camping” itself sucks everything about it is a pain in the ass but you kinda put up with it because you like to do other things that would really also be a pain in the ass if you didn’t have somewhere to sleep
I used to, 40 years ago. Did a lot of backpacking into pretty deep wilderness, staying out there for 2 or 3 weeks. Loved it. Now my knees can’t handle it any more. But one of my favorite ways to get to sleep is to imagine myself back in a sleeping bag looking up at the Milky Way, or in a tent with rain falling, or just hearing the night creatures.
I loved the shit out of it as a kid and through most of my 20s. I used to camp all the time, and it was my favorite type of trip. As I got older, I got more and more annoyed with fiddling with a tent, and my back became less and less okay with sleeping on the ground.
Now, it’s been a few years since the last time I went camping, and I have zero urge to do it again. I sometimes do bikepacking trips where you effectively do a road trip on a bike and have to pack everything you need into saddlebags. A lot of people like to do this by packing a light tent and camping as they go, but I’ve always done “credit card camping” where the trip is planned as routes between various hotels and B&Bs.
I camp a bit. I do like it. I camped a few times this year. I have tent and camping gear. I had chance to watch bears, wolves, bobcat, coyotes, eagles, while camping. US state and national parks are amazing.
Yes! As long as A) there is somewhere with running water to wash dishes or B) I am close enough to civilization to buy all my food pre-made. There is nothing more annoying than trying to wash dishes while camping. 😂
I love it, I used to go in college often, and then years later started going again with my husband when my kids were young. Ever since then we’ve gone 2-5 times a year. Going again in a few weeks!
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it’s not a hobby I enjoy personally but I think it’s a fine activity and I’m glad that many people like it and have abundant options
Love it. It’s one of my favorite pastimes.
If you call staying in a Hampton Inn camping, sure.
Yes. All forms of camping. Have done it all my life.
I love camping! I’ve even gone camping using only public transport to get to national parks. We have some of the most amazing national parks in the world, why wouldn’t I?
I love it! I grew up camping and still go once a year with my family.
Nope, certainly not for the sake of just camping. That’s just misery with no fun. But I’ll go on adventures where having to camp is an aspect. But I’ll still make it as comfortable as possible. I see no point in ever roughing it just to rough it.
Yes, love it.
Absolutely not. I pay a lot of money to live in my house. If I’m leaving, I’m upgrading to something nicer.
I camp for a living.
I did when I was young and a boy scout. We did frequently. now as an adult and living in Florida where the mosquitoes will carry away small children, not anymore
Yes, we go camping multiple times a year. Growing up my parents had a trailer but now we just bring tents. I’m 2 hours from the Pacific Ocean and two hours from the Sierra Nevadas. I prefer camping in the mountains. Sometimes we don’t even bring a tent, just put a sleeping bag on the ground for the night. Usually spend most the day fly fishing.
Loved camping as a kid as and adult I really don’t want to sleep anywhere without and en-suite bath
Yes I love camping, but sadly my wife is an absolute mosquito magnet. Each mosquito bite she gets becomes very swollen, extremely itchy, hard to the touch, and warm.
Needless to say, I don’t make as much time for camping as I would like. I only get out 2-3 times a year.
In an RV with all the comforts of home, sure.
I hate it. I don’t really like the outdoors, especially during summer.
I have plenty of friends who like it, though.
Yes! If you come prepared , it’s quite nice.
Absolutely love it! Of course there are several kinds of camping, and I prefer some to others. But totally get why people would choose any of the different types.
Gimme a bighorn sheep tag a month off of work and I’ll show you how much I like sleeping in a tent
I like staying in hotel rooms personally. I’ve camped before. It’s just not my thing.
No
I do personally. I camp between 30 and 40 nights a year on average.
I like it, but am too old for tent camping.
I used to. About the only way I’d do it now is to have an RV that resembled a Marriot suite.
Yes! But we (f71, m75) enjoy our tow-behind camper, no more sleeping on the ground for us! (plus we need restroom during the night, lol)
Yep! Though I have back problems and need an air mattress these days.
I am on a Girl Scout camping trip right now. This is one night a year that I prove my love to my children 😂
I love camping. Tent camping or an air mattress in the back of the truck so I can sleep under the stars.
No. I have zero interest in getting a “feel for nature” on my skin, under my nails, and in my hair. No thanks!
Yes. Bring my kids twice a year.
We enjoy it (bonfires, nature, ocean, star gazing and meteor spottiny) but also love that it’s cheap.
Yes
God no. Let’s go kids. Grab a shopping cart and let’s pretend we’re homeless!
Yes for like 2 nights max.
I’ve only camped once in my life, and I thought it was a bit underwhelming tbh. I would do it again though
Hell no.
Nope. I’m allergic to everything outside
Yes. Camping at state parks in an RV, tent camping, backpacking in the back country. It’s all fun.
I am not fond of the outdoors, bugs, or sleeping on the ground, so camping is not my thing. I have friends who do like it, ranging from those who do backpacking into the wild to traveling with a huge tent and queen sized air mattress.
I used to go all the time with my Namesake son…
He’s 40 and has a family of his own..
We used to camp every weekend during the summer..
I used to go camping in the mountains with my folks, but that was before I developed back problems.
In theory yes I like the outdoors and all that it entails. In practice it’s a lot of work. If it’s hot sleeping can be miserable. Daytime you’re dealing with bugs and sun.
I’d love a camper or a way to find small cabins
Yes, I love camping. I’m going camping in 3 weeks and I can’t wait. Fall camping is the best.
I enjoyed it when I could; my friends who liked it have moved away and it’s not as fun hanging around a campfire on your lonesome. I still keep a sleeping bag and tent in my trunk just in case.
Not a fan. However if I had nice (comfy) gear I’d give it another try.
As one who used to have a Class A motorhome, I can say those things will work you to death.
Not really.
My idea of “roughing it” is Motel 6.
Nope
Yes. I find it enjoyable. I’m not a survivalist anymore, I mostly just like being able to live without rules for several days. I spend it reading in a hammock for the most part, but it’s fun to pee wherever I happen to be and start drinking beer at 9am. I live on the edge of wilderness so it’s not difficult to toss a tent in my car and get out there.
Yes both car camping and actual backpacking camping. They’re both awesome but different.
Hell, no. I’m very much a fan of air conditioning/heat, electricity, running water, etc. Zero desire to go sleep on dirt and be where bugs live. Refrigeration is a wonderful thing! Hotels exist. Was forced into way too much of it as a child, very thankful that I have other options now
I went camping earlier in life.
At this point the idea of sleeping on the ground in a sleeping bag is prerty unappealing to me. I’m happy to visit your campsite, but I’m heading home to my bed at night.
Absolutely not. I am an avid indoorsman.
Nope, not even a little. I went camping in Girl Scouts a couple of times, plus there was an excruciating week of sleep away camp. That was enough. I like to sleep and shower indoors, preferably with central air and heating.
No, but my wife and I sometimes stay in our friends’ camper at a specialty campground. There’s a sign on the wall inside the camper that says, “Camping: Spending a small fortune to live like a homeless person.”
If we weren’t so interested in this campground, we’d never camp.
Our friends are really into it. I think it’s entirely too much work to attach the camper to and detach it from the truck (I drive a small economy car). It would be a pain to connect and disconnect the water and sewer lines and pop out and retract the pop-out parts of the camper. It’s expensive to maintain and store a camper. We’re much less interested in staying in a tent. If we had to do it ourselves, we wouldn’t.
I fucking love camping and aim to go at least once a year. That doesn’t always happen though
I went from being a back packer, sometimes just sleeping outside in a sleeping bag without a tent, to a tent camper/car camper to a VW van camper to now I’m not as motivated as I used to be to go camping.
I’ve camped and backpacked in my 20s and 30s. Now? I want a toilet, shower, and a bed. I’ll only camp now if there’s an overnight music festival.
I used to enjoy it. It’s not the same anymore, and neither is my body’s tolerance for sleeping on the ground. I’ve camped in some pretty spectacular places, though, and I wish I could return to a few of them.
Enjoy camping. I do it less now because I live in a forest and I’m getting old.
Love it! Nothing is better than sleeping in a tent with light rain pinging off it. Fresh air with a tinge of campfire smoke., heavenly!
Yes, I do.
Yessssss….and no. I used to really love it, but now that I’m the person who has to clean and put everything away, i struggle to find it fun. Also, I need to go to the bathroom at least 2x a night, which can be tricky in the woods or scary if it’s the middle of the night with a flashlight and a vault toilet. I like my bidet!
No. I live in a hot, muggy, buggy climate. If there’s a threat of a hurricane, I evacuate. I don’t want to be in my own home in camping-like conditions. No. No thank you.
I love camping! My only problem is I always have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. So annoying!
When we were growing up, my parents embraced camping, first in a giant tent, later a popup camper. The last time I went with them was 40+ years ago when my husband and I were first married. After that, we were done.
My brothers now have big-ass park trailers anchored in a nice camp area with a marina. One brother has a boat, jet ski, etc. Before we moved away (from our hometown Chicago to Phoenix), we’d go down every Labor Day, and it was pretty idyllic.
The reason it was idyllic is that my brother and his wife are great hosts and went all out to give us a good time. Even if I wanted to spend all the money to duplicate my brother’s experience, it’s a tremendous amount of work maintaining and storing everything. Also, cooking isn’t high on my list of things to do while on vacation, and they cooked most of our meals.
While we appreciate “glamping,” my husband and I aren’t up to it.
I support camping… for others. I will never camp for funsies.
Love it. I get out alone as often as I can and love camping with my BFF. Im in my 60s and live in a place with amazing scenery and beautiful state and county campgrounds with hundreds and hundreds of miles a beautiful hiking trails, giant trees and a coast line to die for. It makes me feel so much better after a rough week.
It’s fun sometime.
No it’s terrible
Yep, I typically go camping about once a month when it isn’t freezing cold (and I live in the Southwest so I get to go most of the year).
I also once spent two years just traveling and camping around the US when I was a freelance writer. That was too much after awhile, so I settled back down and live in a house again, but I really enjoyed it for quite some time.
I don’t mind camping as a necessity. Backpacking, motorcycle camping trip way into the woods, that’s all fine. Driving to a designated campground with 50 other people as your neighbors? Nah, give me a hotel.
No.
My extended family loves to camp. I do not like to, at all.
I go out for a day, but then I go home to my own bed to sleep.
I do. My wife doesn’t
Yes, absolutely 😁
I was a Girl Scout for 11 years, and we camped at least once a year as a group. I also camped a lot with my family, and I’ve been camping several times with my husband. I prefer primitive-adjacent camping where there’s an air mattress and a cooler, but no electricity and I might also have to either trek for plumbing and a restroom or make do with what I can bring to the site.
I love being out in the middle of the woods with as few people as possible around, seeing three times the amount of stars I see at home, and listening to all of the animals in the middle of the night. I love cooking over an open fire, setting up and taking down my shelter, hiking and exploring all day, and I even love how smoky my clothes smell when I get home.
The only unpleasant part of camping is that here in FL, nighttime temps can linger in the 80’s F (~29.4°C) in the summer, which combined with the humidity makes it hard for me to sleep. But that’s easily mitigated by going camping mostly in cooler weather lol
Nope. I love the outdoors, I do not enjoy sleeping on the ground. I have been camping and have never once enjoyed it.
Yes.
I’ve gone camping once in college. It was fine. If some friends want to go and invite me, I’d have no problem going, but I have no interest or desire to.
I did it. It was fine. I’m fine never doing it again.
No
Not only camping, but backpacking. I love hiking into back country with the absolute minimum and spending time in nature.
Camping is pretty awesome.
I am at the end of my camping trip right now! I’ve been camping since I was 4 months old and I’m now in my 30’s. I look forward to my camping trips in the summer, they are basically the only vacations I take!
Yes I do. I have a farm and I can camp comfortably and privately. I have a handful of campsites scattered around my farm. In the spring and fall I sometimes spend more nights outside than inside. But my campsites are almost as as comfortable as a house at this point, I’ve been doing it so long. I also have people over for bonfires and campfire cookouts.
I really like camping. I grew up in Brooklyn, so I never camped. My husband was from Colorado, so he took me camping when we moved there, and I really love it. We grab the dogs, set up our tent, and start a campfire. I have a hammock I string up between two trees, and I read in it and fall asleep. We hike during the day and read outside. It is one of my favorite parts of summer. It’s so quiet and comfortable and I don’t have my computer and my phone doesn’t work and it it awesome for a few days.
Not in the least little bit.
I don’t enjoy camping myself, but I’m in a wheelchair, so that is undoubtedly a big reason. I am far, far too fond of flat surfaces to push my chair on.
I love camping. Built a log cabin last time I went. Had a creek with good water, good soil, little bit of perfect. Can’t wait to find another section of perfect again.
It was 10-15yr old pine saplings, older dead pine tree bark, and clay mud/sticks/leaves. Took two weeks. Was solid for a year, minus the mud falling. Like 75 sq ft lol
Love camping! Grew up camping with my family and always loved it. Mountain woods are my happy place, though I’ve camped many places.
It’s a lot more fun if you have other reasons for doing it. If you are going to summit a mountain peak then you might have a tent pitched down lower to make it a two day climb.
If, in my case, you go somewhere with friends to scuba dive, and you can also camp out, that’s fun as well.
If you are young, money is tight, and you want to drive around to explore a new state, then it can be convenient to just pitch a tent at a campsite as night approaches.
Just driving somewhere so you can sleep on the ground for no other reason, it’s not as much fun.
I don’t do it any more, but when I was little, I loved camping with my Girl Scout Troop. As long as there’s a decent bathroom at a camp site, I think it is fun.
I’m sure plenty of other people enjoy it, and that’s fine, but i hate everything about it.
I’m on the last night of a camping trip right now! Love it. I’ve been camping since I was 4 months old and I’m in my 30’s now. It’s really the only vacation I take.
Absolutely from “camping” in a trailer. To solo backpacking and roughing it in the mountains.
I love camping. But camping is a lot of work on either end. There is a lot of planning, prep, usually at least a couple hours of travel. Then you get to pack all of your, now dirty, shit back up, travel more, unpack all of it, clean it, and put it away.
Juice just ain’t worth the squeeze unless I don’t have to be responsible for all that other shit.
I did when I was a kid. However I don’t see any draw to it as an adult. I’d rather spend the weekend in my reading chair with a burrito bar on my dresser and a really good book.
Love it. Went tent camping in my younger years, and when my own kids were growing. I am in my mid-60’s and planning on going again next year.
I’m not sure if what we do as actually camping as we have an RV-my spouse’s dream. I don’t really get packing up a ton of stuff from our house to turn around and put it in the house on wheels. Then end up in basically a parking lot with some grass, trees and other RV’s.
Do I like it? Not very much.
I’m on team backpacking. Watch the sun go down from a mountaintop, get a little fire going, sip some bourbon while hanging with family or friends. Absolutely gorgeous places you can’t get to in a car, and you get to live in them for a little moment.
Car camping is more of a means to an end. It’s a place to stay when you’re doing other outdoors things. Weekend of fly fishing? A campsite right on the river is perfect. But if the camping part is the main attraction, I want a view that does not include cars.
I enjoyed it when I was younger, can’t imagine doing it now.
Yes
Love it. I think it helps that I grew up in the PNW where a lot of people regularly go camping and invest in good equipment to make it a frequent and pleasant experience.
Nope
My boys are scouts. We got camping several times a year.
Yes., absolutely.
Ah hell yeah I’m camping right now!
When I was growing up my family would go camping half a dozen times a year, plus there was events with the scout troop and maybe a shared camping trip with our neighbors who were good friends of the family. Plus when I was maybe 15-16 i worked summers at a YMCA day camp. Loved all of it. Except for hiking. I always disliked hiking and still do. When I was in the scouts we always had long hikes planned and I figured our the best way to get out of them, which was that I decided to work on my cooking merit badge so I always had to stay back at camp using the time to work on dinner. 30 years later I’m a chef, so that worked out quite well.
When I was in high school I used to camp all the time with my friends!!! Our parents thought we were having wholesome fun. Now that I’m old(er) I feel like I need a bed and AC during the summer. But, I’d like to take my kids camping at some point. They’ve slept out in the tent in our yard one night the past few summers. I even bought a large tent a few months ago with the hope that we’ll go ( but I’d still prefer a sink/toilet/cozy bed)!!!
Nope. I can appreciate nature, i just don’t want to live in it.
I loved it when I was young. Now I am old and creaky and don’t enjoy sleeping on the ground so much anymore. But my kids love it so we try to go at least once a summer.
My worst nightmare tbh
Yes
Nope.
Love hiking and being outdoors, but want a nice hotel for sleeping.
I enjoy hiking in nature and visiting people while they’re camping. But I don’t like to sleep outside overnight because I’m worried I’ll be attacked by a dangerous wild animal.
I love camping at a luxury hotel! 😜
I’ve always loved it. I also hunt and trap for meat so it fits right in.
I enjoy going on a nice hike or doing some off-roading or shooting and then getting shit faced around a campfire far enough in the middle of nowhere that I can see all the stars in the sky. “Camping” itself sucks everything about it is a pain in the ass but you kinda put up with it because you like to do other things that would really also be a pain in the ass if you didn’t have somewhere to sleep
I used to, 40 years ago. Did a lot of backpacking into pretty deep wilderness, staying out there for 2 or 3 weeks. Loved it. Now my knees can’t handle it any more. But one of my favorite ways to get to sleep is to imagine myself back in a sleeping bag looking up at the Milky Way, or in a tent with rain falling, or just hearing the night creatures.
I’m actually going for the first time in 8 years next month. Quite excited.
Yes!
I loved the shit out of it as a kid and through most of my 20s. I used to camp all the time, and it was my favorite type of trip. As I got older, I got more and more annoyed with fiddling with a tent, and my back became less and less okay with sleeping on the ground.
Now, it’s been a few years since the last time I went camping, and I have zero urge to do it again. I sometimes do bikepacking trips where you effectively do a road trip on a bike and have to pack everything you need into saddlebags. A lot of people like to do this by packing a light tent and camping as they go, but I’ve always done “credit card camping” where the trip is planned as routes between various hotels and B&Bs.
Yes, I do.
I camp a bit. I do like it. I camped a few times this year. I have tent and camping gear. I had chance to watch bears, wolves, bobcat, coyotes, eagles, while camping. US state and national parks are amazing.
Yes! As long as A) there is somewhere with running water to wash dishes or B) I am close enough to civilization to buy all my food pre-made. There is nothing more annoying than trying to wash dishes while camping. 😂
Yes
I’ve seen too many “camper gets killed” TV shows and movies.
I camped a lot as a kid (Eagle scout), but you couldn’t pay me to go camping today.
I love it, I used to go in college often, and then years later started going again with my husband when my kids were young. Ever since then we’ve gone 2-5 times a year. Going again in a few weeks!
When I was young, (20s), I loved camping. Now that I’m old, (60s), I hate it.
i love camping. so much i own a spot at a private camping club. go there every weekend to catch and cook. sit by the fire and listen to music.
I’ll be backpacking for four days in October, so yeah I love it