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Camping Glossary index

walk-in campsite

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Definition of walk-in campsite

A type of campsite that can only be accessed by foot—typically after parking one’s vehicle in a designated parking lot a few hundred feet away. You can’t drive your vehicle directly to walk-in campsites, so they’re better suited for tent camping. These campsites tend to have fewer amenities than other frontcountry campsites.

The above is an entry in Campnab’s Pretty Darned Useful Glossary of Camping Terms. This glossary is another project from us, the two Erics (@shelkie and @karj). We had a harebrained idea to create a dictionary containing every single camping term we came across. Admittedly, this is taking some effort—and leaving us with less time for camping. D’oh!

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