About r/camping
In its own words:
A subreddit for campers concerned more about the act of camping and less concerned about hiking long distances or light gear. Primarily for tent/hammock camping. No RV camping here.
Community guide
r/camping is for tent/hammock camping as an activity—explicitly not long-distance hiking focus and not RV camping. Rank #153 (about 5.6 million subscribers). Rules require trip details, OC, on-topic posts, and ban RV content, ads/blogs, NSFW, and surveys.
Fit
Camping trips, gear-in-context, and campsite discussion for tent/hammock campers. Mixed text/gallery/image in samples.
Versus hiking, CampingandHiking, backpacking
Hiking and long-distance communities optimise for trails and miles. backpacking often mixes wilderness travel. r/camping’s description draws a line against RV camping and against being primarily a ultralight thru-hike room.
Practical pointers
Include trip details; post OC; be nice; no short links or surveys.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jul 18, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,446 subscribers (+0.03%). It sits just behind r/TikTokCringe (#151) and ahead of r/backpacking (#157) in our ranking.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/camping climbed from 5,622,375 to 5,635,941 subscribers (+13.6K, +0.24%). That is about 308 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Top posts on r/camping this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 2, 2026).
- 🎃Happy Halloween 👻u/davidar86 · Nov 1 · gallery
- Rock shelter in Linville Gorgeu/hyliancoffeehouse · Oct 28 · gallery
- Camping season in Texas has begun 🏕️u/RescuedMisfits · Oct 27 · gallery
- Primitive Cowboy in Anza Borrego Desert State Parku/killer__psycho · Oct 29 · gallery
- Camping in NC, USA over the past weekend!u/MBarnett13 · Oct 27 · gallery
- Mid-week get away last week at Elijah Clark State Parku/motorcyclesnracecars · Oct 26 · gallery
- Day vs Nightu/Longjumping-Cow4488 · Nov 1 · gallery
- Went camping in Shenandoah NP with some friends last nightu/CaretakerColin · Nov 1 · gallery
- Group autumn camp in the mountainsu/AnythingTechnical241 · Oct 29 · gallery
- Camping this past weekend at Beaver’s Bend State Park in Oklahomau/mitchcumstein71 · Oct 26 · gallery
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/camping, from 2016 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- Excuse me while I toot my own horn. Single mom here. For my daughter’s 12 birthday, got her a dog and took her camping and fishing. Not something I’ve ever done alone. I think her dad would have been…u/LizInMS · Mar 21, 2020 · 67,964 points · 1,449 comments · image
- I bought myself 12.5 acres just for camping.u/Hungry-Ad9840 · Jun 29, 2025 · gallery
- I lost my best friend this past weekend, but I've found comfort in knowing that he never missed an outdoor adventure and was always up for anything. Give your furry friends a hug for me.u/The_Nauticus · Feb 9, 2022 · 22,475 points · 646 comments · gallery
- My son contemplates life on his first camping trip.u/Gulls77 · May 22, 2017 · 16,958 points · 210 comments · image
- 😃u/AGentlemanOfLesiure · May 13, 2021 · image
- 4 days solo beach campingu/Traditional_Age_7690 · Sep 19, 2026 · gallery
- Worth not getting bittenu/Complete_Pumpkin9136 · Jun 5, 2021 · image
- Getting real tired of people leaving their dog off leash at campsites 😤u/TryggWinston · Jun 25, 2025 · video
- Found a little slice of Heavenu/Nose_Rich · Sep 3, 2024 · image
- Here in the Netherlands we don't have the vast national parks you guys do in the US so I've been working on this small patch of grass just so I can set up my tent lolu/aaronguitarguy · Jun 29, 2020 · link
What r/camping talks about
Looking at the titles of 137 recent posts (Oct 24–Oct 31), the words that come up most are “tent”, “state”, “camp”, “weekend” and “stove”. Other frequent themes are park, advice, sleeping, looking, wood and coleman. Recurring phrases include “state park”, “sleeping bag”, “past weekend” and “wood stove”. By format, 48% are text posts, 33% are galleries and 12% are images.
Popular post flairs: Trip Pictures (20), Gear Question (14), Trip Advice (12), Food (4), Gear Review (1), Trip Video (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/camping gets about 23 new posts a day. The public archive holds 160,146 posts and 2,119,958 comments in total, about 13.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (24 posts) and the quietest was Thursday (15). Posting peaks around 14:00 UTC and is lowest around 09:00 UTC.
Rules of r/camping
The moderators of r/camping list 9 rules. In short:
- Stay On Topic
- Be Nice
- Trip Details Required
- No RV Camping
- Ads, blogs, websites
- No Reposts, OC Only
- No NSFW Content
- No Surveys
- No Short Links
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/camping and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/camping have?
r/camping has 5,635,941 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #153 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 13,566 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/camping created?
r/camping was created on Jul 18, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Nov 11, 2008.
Is r/camping still active?
Yes. r/camping gets about 23 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 160,146 posts and 2,119,958 comments. In a sample of 137 recent posts we counted 123 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/camping?
Based on post counts from Oct 24, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Thursday, and most posts arrive around 14:00 UTC, with the fewest around 09:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/camping?
The community describes itself as: “A subreddit for campers concerned more about the act of camping and less concerned about hiking long distances or light gear. Primarily for tent/hammock camping. No RV camping here.” Recent post titles often mention tent, state, camp, weekend and stove. Most posts are text posts (48%).
Is r/camping SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/camping as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/camping?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/camping accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Stay On Topic”; “Be Nice”; “Trip Details Required”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/camping?
Communities with similar topics include r/CampingandHiking (2.8M), r/Shoestring (5.2M), r/drawing (5.8M), r/television (18.2M) and r/Guitar (3.5M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 2, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/camping.