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New Tent by Paul Carroll

Today’s post is by guest Roy Scribner, otherwise known as Camping Blogger.

This weekend, Saturday June 26th, marks the annual Great American Backyard Campout, sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation®.

Back yard camping is the perfect way to be in the moment in your nature garden and to learn more about the [...]

Sleeping Under the Stars

The Great American Backyard Campout, sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, is on June 27th, 2009. Have you heard of it? It’s described as an opportunity to sleep out under the stars. Now, when I hear these words I have visions of sleeping without a tent. I mean, otherwise you can’t see any stars, can [...]

YMCA Adventure Guides

Today I want to introduce you to Adventure Guides, a fun parent and child program run through the YMCA. It’s another way to get kids out into nature, and this time it specifically involves dads. My husband and son were part of an Adventure Guides group for several years. They had fun, went camping, heard [...]

10 Tips for Happy Family Camping – part 2

Last week I gave you the first 5 of my 10 tips for happy family camping. Here is part 2 with 5 more tips.

#6 Pack a Bag for Each Kid
Whether you will be driving for 5 minutes or 10 hours to get to your campsite I recommend that each child has their own bag. Kids [...]

10 Tips for Happy Family Camping – part 1

When you decide to plan a family camping trip you want it to be a happy one, especially if it’s your first time. Here are 10 tips for a happy family camping trip. Remember, fail to plan and you plan to fail. By the way, several of these tips were learned the hard way for [...]