The Family Camping gear reviews

Fall/Winter 2024

Welcome to the Family Camping Checklist! Here at DGR our goal is to make planning your family camping trip a little bit easier. Since you’ll likely be car camping with the kids we have included lists loaded with campsite comforts. Click FAMILY CAMPING 101 for quick and easy lists of all the gear you and your family need for a successful camping trip this summer. And explore from the 101 list, which covers the bare basics, to the 103 list that will have your family glamping trip kitted out in style. Then browse through by category below for our specific recommendations of the best family camping gear, from tents to sleeping bags and beyond.

Dad Gear Review’s picks: Best camping gear by category

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Family Camping Learning Center

  • Our Favorite Tent Camping Hack

  • Camping Cooking hacks to help you make great meals in the field

  • How to clean a sleeping bag

  • How to go camping with toddlers and without regrets

  • HOW BRIGHT ARE LUMENS and HOW MANY LUMENS DO I NEED FOR my CAMPING lighting?

In-Depth Camping Gear Reviews

  • COMMANDER FIRE PIT TOOL

    making fire management safer and easier

  • HELINOX INSULATED COT

    designed to keep you warm and comfortable

  • ROAR MONITOR

    A rugged, durable baby monitor for the outdoor family

  • FIREBINER

    a compact multitool ready for all of your adventures

  • Decathlon Camping Rug

    Clean tent, organized gear, and happy kids

  • PACT

    Answers to the conundrum: how to poop in the woods

  • GEYSER SYSTEMS

    Portable, heated, low-water usage shower system

  • GMC YUKON AT4

    Our favorite family camping car: The Woolly Potato

  • Rovr Rollr

    Adventure ready & engineered to keep cool for a week

  • Snow Peak Litemax Stove

    a titanium stove, smaller than a pack of cards

  • HELINOX CHAIR ONE

    This compact collapsible chair will fit in your backpack