What is camping?
A: Camping is an outdoor activity involving overnight stays away from home,
either without shelter or using basic shelter such as a tent or a
recreational vehicle.
Typically, participants leave developed areas to spend
time outdoors in more natural ones in pursuit of activities providing them
what?
A: Enjoyment or an educational experience.
The night (or more) spent outdoors distinguishes
camping from what?
A: Day-tripping, picnicking, and other similarly short-term recreational
activities.
When did camping as a recreational activity become
popular among elites?
A: In the early 20th century.
With time, it grew in popularity among other what?
A: Socioeconomic classes.
Modern campers frequent publicly owned natural
resources such as what?
A: National and state parks, wilderness areas, and commercial campgrounds.
In a few countries, such as Sweden and Scotland, public
camping is legal where?
A: On privately held land.
Camping is a key part of many what?
A: Youth organizations around the world, such as Scouting, which use it to
teach both self-reliance and teamwork.
Survivalist and wild campers typically set off with
what?
A: As little as possible to get by.
Other campers might use specialized camping gear
designed to provide what?
A: Comfort, including their own power and heat sources as well as camping
furniture.
Camping may be combined with what?
A: Hiking, as in backpacking, and is often enjoyed in conjunction with other
outdoor activities such as canoeing, climbing,
fishing, and
hunting.
Fastpacking involves both running and what?
A: Camping.
A campground may serve who at the same time?
A: Recreational campers, school field trips, migrant workers, and homeless.
The history of recreational camping is often traced
back to whom?
A: Thomas Hiram Holding, a British travelling tailor.
It was first popularized in the UK on what?
A: The river Thames.
By the 1880s, large numbers of visitors took part in
the pastime, which was connected to the late Victorian craze for what?
A: Pleasure boating.
Possibly the first commercial camping ground in the
world was what?
A: Cunningham's camp, near Douglas, Isle of Man, which opened in 1894.
In 1906, the Association of Cycle Campers opened its
first own what?
A: Camping site, in Weybridge.
In 1910 the Association was merged into what?
A: The National Camping Club.
In the US, camping may be traced to whom?
A: William Henry Harrison Murray's 1869 publication of Camp-Life in the
Adirondacks.