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The Gear: No Smoking Section
Where there’s smoke, there’s frustration. No matter how many times you adjust your position around a traditional campfire, you won’t escape it. Even after the embers cool, the smell will…
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Shop Talk: Peace Vans Turns Volkswagen ID. Buzz into an Electric Camper Van
Shop: Peace Vans Location: Seattle, WA Founded: 2013 Specialty: Volkswagen Van Conversions When Harley Sitner bought an old Volkswagen shop called Peace Vans in Seattle’s industrial SoDo district in…
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Road Icon: Revisiting the Classic Aljoa Sportsman Travel Trailer
C.T. “Mac” McCreary, owner of Modernistic Industries, debuted Aljoa Sportsman trailers in 1945. His timing was auspicious. America’s love affair with the road was about to bloom as World War…
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A Year of Outdoor Gear
2025: Twelve months of action. A nation of adventure. We planned a dozen trips into the great outdoors with the best gear to get you there. It’s going to be…
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The Ride: Keep on Trucking in a NüCamp Cirrus 820
The first truck campers arrived scene in the 1950s, changing how Americans looked at the humble pickup truck. Since, they’ve evolved in size and complexity, while staying true to a…
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Camp Keepers: The Campers Hub in Montrose, Colorado
Taylor and Scott Johnson are the Camp Keepers at The Campers Hub in Montrose, CO. Here’s how they got started with that gig: “We started RVing in July 2019. We…
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Why I Bought This: The Prime Time Tracer 230FBS is a Snug Snowbird Nest
It’s that time again—the season when many northerners look at the long-term forecast and promptly flee south for the winter. For decades, we’ve called them “snowbirds,” often assuming they’ve checked…
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Shop Talk: Grand Design is the Heir Apparent
This past summer, the Indiana factory making Grand Design’s newest vehicle was itself a work in progress. Starting at a bracing early hour, the plant’s largely Amish crew moved the…
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Wildsam Road Ready — Vehicles & Gear to Take You Way Out There
Want to get the most out of your next camping trip? Looking to make life on the road a bit better? Check out these products from a few of our…
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The Gear: Let There Be Light
Remember the old days? Camping headlamps were simple. Turned on. Turned off. They had one incandescent brightness setting, which only dimmed when your AAA batteries began to die. Then you…