Advice For First-Time Camping Alongside Your Family

Camping can be a wonderful adventure, pastime, or even alternative means of accommodation for any trip you go on. That said, the first time you go camping with your family, it can be quite a hard sell to convince them. Suggesting you should leave the quiet comforts of home to sleep in a field with a relatively thin layer of material between yourself and the outside elements, well, it can seem like a novel idea to the homebody to say the least.

Of course, in actual fact, camping is a fun, enjoyable, nurturing, and enlivening activity, one that helps you gain a new appreciation for nature, breathe the freshest air you could possibly enjoy, and potentially save money on your accommodation bills.

In this post, then, we’ll discuss some advice for first-time camping alongside your family members, including how to make the experience more comfortable for them from the jump. Before long, this may even become your default measure of booking small trips around your local area, or to your nearby coastal environment:

Prepare Your Equipment

The little things are needed when you’re in a starker environment than a household. For example, insect repellent can help keep you comfortable if you’re in a warmer climate, as can small medical necessities like burn cream should someone suffer a burn while cooking on your portable stove. You can also use kinetically-chargeable flashlights, mineral water, water heaters, and more if needed. Having everything to hand for most eventualities, even if a simple survival pack, can help you avoid having to wait until a visit to the local store while you’re trying to enjoy nature.

A Love Of Nature

Of course, one of the absolute benefits of camping is that it brings you closer to nature like nothing else. This can be a fantastic means of showing children the joy of the natural world, be that through butterfly hunting, heading to local visitor farms, camping near the seaside, heading to geological landmarks nearby, or simply looking up at the stars at night, which to this day is still one of the most impressive things a human being can see - when camping out in nature, you get to see this in full view with limited light pollution to spoil it.

Find A Good Campsite

There’s no reason why you have to wild camp, and with a family, that might not be so suitable. In some countries it may even be illegal without the express permission of the landowner, so be careful. A great campsite will have clean facilities and amenities like showers, toilets, laundry areas and a shop for essentials. It will also be safe for families, and have rules like no visible alcohol drinking or noise past a certain time. This way, you can relax and enjoy yourself, knowing that other campers don’t have to limit your fun.

With this advice, you’re sure to enjoy first time camping alongside your family, in the best possible light going forward. Just make sure to give yourself a little time to get things right.