My backpacking trips tend to involve two markedly different approaches to eating. If I’m backpacking alone, I favor dehydrated camping meals (usually Firepot Mac n’ Greens) that I can whip up quickly ...

Trevor Takara's best camping meal is ribeye steak and asparagus with garlic salt and black pepper, potatoes, peppers, Stubb's seasoning, and olive oil. Prep time: 45 minutes, all in camp—gotta make ...

Camping feels incredibly freeing. You hike all day. Sit by the fire at night. Exchange stories with friends. Cooking complicated meals in the woods takes the whimsy out of it. But you still need food ...

There is something about eating dinner outside and watching the sunset that makes food just taste so much better. After a long day of hiking, fishing, rafting or just playing around the campground, ...

Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. I’m a former professional chef and ...

Although the smell of bacon cooking while camping is arguably one of the best smells, anything you cook out in the woods is going to taste amazing, assuming you have the right means to cook it.

Jetboil Flash 1.0 System, BioLite CampStove 2+, and GSI Selkirk are among the best camp stoves of 2025. Camp stoves get lighter and more efficient every year with more compact form factors and smarter ...

A good camping table feels like a luxury when you're set up on a campsite, yet there are some very affordable and packable ...