Camping is perhaps the ultimate form of socially distant travel and recreation. It’s literally an escape from civilization, which is precisely how COVID-19 spreads. If there’s one silver lining to the ...

As the summer of COVID-19 winds down, Shane Bertsch has seen something he would not have expected six months ago: Packed campgrounds and crowded hiking trails. “This has been the busiest camping ...

In the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, record numbers of people "stayed home" in tents, campers and RVs they took with them to Tennessee's state parks. Camping in the last two months of 2020 reached ...

Camping trailers may be the most versatile recreational vehicles available — even if they’re not technically, y’know, vehicles. Rooftop tents offer ease of use, and camper vans offer greater ...

Summer 2020 wasn’t what anyone expected. As more and more people tried to socially distance, the big outdoors was the obvious escape plan. And as every type of holiday maker headed to a campsite, or ...

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In the era of COVID-19, nothing sounds better than escaping to the middle of nowhere for some R&R, some peace and quiet and to take in the rugged outdoors. Now, thanks to glamping (as in “glamorous ...

The nighttime winter sky often shimmers with piercing, icy-like starlight. This isn’t an optical illusion. In the Northern Hemisphere, during the winter season, the Earth’s orbit directs us toward the ...

This story is part of our end-of-year series This Year in Gear rounding up the most notable releases of 2020. For more stories like this, click here. Among the far-too-many-other things that happened ...