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April 9, 2018

Tent Flap With A View: 25 Favorite Backcountry Campsites

In Backpacking, Family Adventures, International Adventures, National Park Adventures   |   Tagged Alice Lake, Arizona, Benson Lake, California, California backpacking, California climbing, California national parks, Camp Schurman, Canyon of Lodore, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Climbing Mount Whitney, Colorado, Columbine Lake, Coyote Gulch, Coyote Natural Bridge, Death Canyon Shelf, Dientes Circuit, Dinosaur National Monument, Dog Lake, Dome Glacier, Doubtful Sound, Eagle Cap Wilderness, East Fork Owyhee River, Emmons Glacier, Everglades National Park, Evolution Basin, Evolution Lake, family backpacking, Fiordlands National Park, floating the Green River, Gates of Lodore, Glacier Bay National Park, Glacier National Park, Glacier Peak Wilderness, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon's Royal Arch, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Grand Teton National Park, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Green River, Gunsight Pass Trail, Hance Rapids, High Sierra, Idaho, John Muir Trail, Johns Hopkins Inlet, Kings Canyon National Park, Lake Ellen Wilson, Little Frazier Lake, Little Yosemite Valley, Mount Baker, Mount Rainier National Park, Mount Whitney, Mount Whitney Mountaineers Route, New Hance Trail, North Cascades, North Cascades National Park, North Fork Cascade Canyon, Olympic coast, Olympic National Park, Paria Canyon, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Patagonia, Precipice Lake, Ptarmigan Traverse, rafting Lodore Canyon, rafting the Green River, Rock Slide Lake, Royal Arch Loop, Sahale Glacier Camp, Sawtooth Mountains, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Sawtooth Wilderness, Sequoia National Park, Seven Devils Mountains, Southern Utah hiking backpacking, Spring Canyon, Stillwater Canyon, Ten Thousand Islands, Tiger Key, Titcomb Basin, Toleak Point, Tonto Trail, Upper Lyman Lakes, Utah, Utah parks, Virgin River, Wallowa Mountains, Waterpocket Fold, Whirlpool Canyon, White Rock Lakes, Wind River Range, Wind River Range backpacking, Zion National Park, Zion’s Narrows   |   30 Comments

By Michael Lanza

An unforgettable campsite can define a backcountry trip. Sometimes that perfect spot where you spend a night forges the memory that remains the most vivid long after you’ve gone home. A photo of that camp can send recollections of the entire adventure rushing back to you—it does for me. I’ve been very fortunate to have pitched a tent in many great backcountry campsites over nearly three decades of backpacking and trekking all over the U.S. and the world. I’ve boiled the list of my favorite spots down to these 25.

I update this list every year, and each time, it becomes more difficult. This year, I’m adding a campsite in Titcomb Basin, in the heart of Wyoming’s majestic Wind River Range. Below my top 25 list you’ll find a second list of campsites that were previously in my top 25. Each campsite photo below includes a short description of where it is and the trip, and most have a link to an existing story about that trip at The Big Outside. Continue reading →

May 2, 2014

Ask Me: Advice about North Cascades, Olympic, and Mt. Rainier National Parks and Mt. St. Helens

In Ask Me, Backpacking, Family Adventures, Hiking, National Park Adventures   |   Tagged Ask Me North Cascades, backpacking Olympic coast, Camp Schurman, Cascade Pass, Cascade Range, Cascade River Road, Chelan Summit Trail, climbing Mount St. Helens, Enchantment Lakes Basin, family hiking, Hiking Mount St. Helens, Icicle Divide, McAlester Pass, Mount Rainier National Park, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, North Cascades, North Cascades National Park, Olympic coast, Olympic National Park, Pasayten Wilderness, Rainbow Pass, Sahale Arm, Sahale Glacier Camp   |   Leave a comment

[Originally a message via facebook.com/TheBigOutside]

Hi Michael,

Thank you SOOOO much for taking time out to answer some questions I have. Myself (55 years young), my husband, my daughter, and her boys, age seven and 11 are hoping to camp at the Sahale Glacier camp in North Cascades National Park in August. We do backpack and have great gear. We did the Grand Canyon, to the river and back, last year. Continue reading →