Camping Checklist

awesome list, love you lots.

Great great checklist to jog my memory. Going camping for a week and a half and this is exactly what type of list I was looking for!

excellent list. so much I would have forgotten when camping with two 4 yr olds!

Love this list! Obviously not everyone will need everything on this list, but it is a great list to make sure you included everything that you might need. You need to add a picture to this page so we can “Pin It” to Pinterest

it doesn’t sound like camping supply it sounds like the supply you need if you’re moving

This check list is amazing… Please do not shrink it as suggested!!! This check list is good for various different camping trips, places you visit, whether conditions, dangerous areas, vs, camp sites, you might want to add “snake bite kit”… Unless it is there and I didn’t see it at first glance… It’s an awesome list, and people should print and scratch out things they do not need for their trip! Leave it as is, it takes two seconds for me to say; oh, I’m not going to need this this particular trip! Again, awesome list, thanks sooo much for putting it together

maybe make a list of stuff you dont need:/

Whoa, this list is way overboard. This is more like the things you need when you are setting up a new house. It probably helps someone to glance through the list to see which items they may be missing, but if someone is carrying all of that, then you are doing camping wrong.

Wow how about some reading comprehension for those who say this list is too exhaustive. If ignorance is bliss there must be a TON of blissful people out there.

Only a twit would consider bringing every single thing on the list. As the very first block of text BEFORE the list states, “Your camping list will vary according to the type of camping and activities you have planned, the places you are going, the time of year and the length of your trip.”

So don’t knock the list unless you’ve bother to READ THE PARAGRAPH BEFORE IT. Go troll somewhere else.

This list is great! I’ve been camping on my own or with friends for 29 years. Thorough lists like this have saved my butt many a time. Scroll down to SID’s comments. He said it best.

this list saved me from having a dreadful weekend !! I packed everything I needed and thought I woul google a checklist as most of us probably did, i would of forgot my tin opener ha don’t listen to the simpletons telling you to shorten the list as this list works for everyone allover the world !!! Cheers bud

How did you forget the food?

Did i missed “LIFE JACKETS,VEST,STEARNS, & BABY FLOATS”???Am going camping this weekend w my kids & family and last year i had to look for a Wal-Mart ..(cause their like groceries stores”in every cuner”) just for STEARNS! Love youre list THANK YOU! MY KIDS & I HAVE FUN GOING OVER IT! U know their learning! I LOVE IT!

The list is long, but has a lot of unneeded items. The best way to pack and buy gear for your trip is to plan your meals,storage,sleeping and personal items. If camping from a vehicle, the extra items don’t matter. If hiking…then give your gear list a look for limitation of seldom used items and take just what is needed for a great camping trip!

All u need is a swiss knife! Lol
Great list!

I cant believe you say to a kindle is better than a book….. most people camp to unplug and get away from that crap. thanks for the info nonetheless.

Shaving mirror and bowl.

why do you have so many things on your list? are you camping for your first time? it sounds like you are planing to stay there for a couple of weeks and climb cliff faces and stuff. is bungi cords and binoculars really necessary? and who take card games with them when they go camping? i know i don’t. and a bottle opener- really? if your not man enough to open a bottle, then i’m pretty sure you shouldn’t go camping!!!

im going for 10 weeks with most of my family

Love the list and love Sid. Just a thought: as reading your list it made my memory click to items that I would need to bring that was only specific to my family. With out reading the list theses would of been forgoten. THANKS.

Add bear bells, my family and I go hiking/camping quite often. someone suggested to shrink this list, but if anything you should be adding to it, better safe than sorry. I would rather have a lot of stuff to bring with me and not need it, than to get in some sort of predicament and need these things. So if anything I would add to the list, NOT take away.
Experience: A family that I care about.
-Missy

Whoa….that’s a hefty list right there. And again all of this depends on how many, where, how long, what kind of amenities are available and what comfort level you want. If you have cell service you can cut out most of the medical kit. Anyway, too many variables for a ‘list’ but those are ‘ideas’. Deodorant ? An Alarm Clock ? Road flares, splints…pie pans and dutch ovens ? I’d like to ‘visit’ your campsite, maybe have some pie, but no way I’m hauling all of that. Not even from the 3/4 ton truck you’ll need to the campsite.

After scanning through the “Better because its shorter” lists below, I noticed that most of them forgot very important items.

The list provided above is an excellent list, BECAUSE it is so long and inclusive. Most of us probably know what to take camping, but we all probably ended up here because we did a quick search to see if we forgot something.
Obviously you tailor the list to your own needs, but at least it is comprehensive enough to give you security in knowing you have all the important stuff.

Take Mr. Eagle scout’s list right below, short and sweet, until you wake up, crawl out of the tent in the morning and and realize you have no food, no coffee, no snacks…

Food is one of the three PRIMARY survival needs, do you really feel confident that he remembered the other, not as necessary but pretty damn convenient, items like bug repellent?

Oops, he missed that too. Better stick with the guy who only went once if ever.

thanks so much for this list.u came a really good help