Budget and prices

What the total comes to once everything is counted.

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Orange dome tent in the foreground at sunrise, caravans and a shirtless man silhouetted by the sea — A tent pitched among caravans on a coastal site, where sun and wind both arrive early.Photo: Sipher · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Insulated camping pot on a canister stove outdoors, its finned heat exchanger and gas cylinder visible

Budget and prices

What a camping kit really costs you per trip

Spread the kit over the trips you really take and add the gas. The number of trips a year decides the cost far more than the price on the tent does.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 8 min

Photo: Original photo: Michael Pereckas on Flickr Modified by Gazebo on February 3, 2015 with the addition of comment and XMP-cc:License metadata and the removal of JPEG IFD1 (thumbnail) metadata. · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons