Have Fun with Eco-Friendly Camping!
Yes, there is beautiful wilderness – just outside your city! Spend a night or two communing with nature – set up camp and roast marshmallows over an open fire, sing camp songs ……..
Camping is one of the most popular weekend activities. It’s relatively cheap, and it can be great fun! If you have kids, they love it! Camping is also a great way to spend time together with friends, as a couple or as a family.
Because wilderness areas are so precious, especially with our burgeoning society and pressure to develop land, we need to make sure that our wilderness areas and parks stay pristine. There are lots of ways we can make sure we do eco-friendly camping.
To ensure that your camping trip is truly eco-friendly, follow these simple tips:
- Leave the portable electronics at home. (If you’re afraid you’re going to be bored, perhaps camping is not for you). The idea is to leave the city behind when you go away for the weekend!
- Make sure you camp only in designated areas. Otherwise you could damage a fragile eco-system that you know nothing about.
You’ll need light at night – use gorgeous solar camping lights so that you don’t have to worry about harming the environment. - Camp fires are fun and they’re also comforting. Burn only wood that has fallen or use certified firewood, never break branches or strip bark from living trees.
- Many camp sites have designated areas for fires, use those areas, or look for previously cleared areas and re-use those, instead of clearing new ground.
- Fill reusable water bottles instead of using bottled water.
- Wash dishes using biodegradable camp soap and never rinse your dishes out in streams or rivers.
- If you would like a shower and there are no showers at the camp site, a pond or lake offers a refreshing alternative – but leave the soap at home as it may damage the eco-system.
- Another big problem is vandalism in our parks. Try to stop people if you see them vandalizing (if they are bigger than you, rather report them instead – note descriptive details).
Eco-friendly camping is a great way to enjoy the serenity of nature, and with a few simple efforts, you can keep that nature intact for years to come.
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Those folks in Arizona who started those wild fires should have read this!!!
Sonya Lenzo
Going on camping trips is always a fun way to spend ecofriendly time with family and or friends.
Scott Sylvan Bell
I find it strange and sad that people vandalize the parks. Is it too quiet or too strange? Perhaps that’s just an indication of how unraveled we’ve become from the Earth.
Camping is a great way to regain yourself and a fun and green way to re associate yourself with the environment.
Camping is one of the funnest things a family can do. Thanks for the all the tips on leaving the camp grounds clean!
Thanks!
Love the outdoors , nuff said .
What a great article. I wish I could write like you. I have not considered lately the eco-side and fire issues. It is so important. I hope we can share links and content.
Absolutely Mark! I like your site, you have good content and are obviously an ardent camper. Thanks for your comment!