Learn About Low-Impact Camping & Why It's Important

Series Summary

Low impact camping regulations exist in many camping areas of National Parks throughout the United States. Low impact campers strive to cause the least amount of negative effects on the environment that they are enjoying. Low impact camping includes traveling in smaller groups, using duller colors for camping equipment, not camping on moss or near water, and creating a campfire that will not scorch the organic material in the soil, or the rocks that surround the fire. If you would like to learn low impact camping techniques to be a good steward of the wilderness you enjoy, learn for free, online, from one of our experts.

In this free online video series, learn from outdoor guide and low impact camping expert Bruce Lessels as he teaches and demonstrates low impact camping methods and techniques. Learn what low impact camping is and why it is important, learn what size of camping group is good for low impact camping, how to dispose of human waste and food waste in a low impact method, how to minimize the negative impacts of campfires, how to wash dishes in such a way that will have the least negative impact on the environment, and how to choose a campsite in a heavily trafficked area.

Video Transcript

" Hi, this is Bruce Lessels from Zoar Outdoor on behalf of expertvillage.com, talking about low impact camping methods. So one of the reasons people enjoy going camping is because they find that they get back to nature, they find a nice unspoiled area and they like to enjoy that area and one of the important things about enjoying that area is that if you enjoy it for you a few days or one night or however much time you spend in that area you want to leave it in the same condition you found it in and make sure that other people can enjoy that area too. So there are lots of ways to think about low impact camping but basically the idea of low impact camping is to have as little impact on the environment as you can and to make sure that when you leave an area you leave it the same way you found it. There’s a great source for low impact camping ideas on the web that leave no trace lnt.org and a lot of other information from leave no trace it’ll tell you about how to make sure that you have as little impact on the environment as you can ant that you leave your area in the same way you found it so that other people can enjoy it as well."