Choose the best portable camp cooking setup for backpacking, car camping, or group trips, with simple stove, cookware, fuel, fire-safety, and packing tips.
Make camping with kids easier with simple tips for choosing a campsite, packing family gear, staying safe, planning meals, handling bedtime, and making outdoor memories.
Learn how to camp responsibly with simple Leave No Trace habits for trip planning, campsites, waste, campfires, wildlife, and sharing the outdoors with others.
Learn 10 basic survival skills for outdoor trips and everyday emergencies, including water, shelter, fire, first aid, navigation, signaling, knots, and simple preparedness.
Build a practical emergency survival kit with water, food, first aid, light, weather radio, maps, medicine, hygiene supplies, car gear, and simple maintenance tips.
Learn how to build a safe campfire, choose the right site, use tinder and kindling, control the flames, cook over coals, and put the fire completely out.
Learn how to plan your first backcountry camping trip with simple advice on routes, permits, gear, water, food, navigation, campsites, safety, and Leave No Trace.
Explore 10 of the best hiking trails in the U.S., from the John Muir Trail and Appalachian Trail to Angels Landing, the Narrows, Katahdin, and the Lost Coast, with simple planning and safety tips.
Plan a 2026 national park trip with current timed-entry rules, crowd strategies, booking tips, backup plans, hiking gear, and simple ways to avoid reservation stress.
Build a safer, lighter backpacking setup with eight simple systems for shelter, sleep, clothing, water, food, navigation, first aid, and gear repair.