How to Keep Your Tent Tidy, Clean and Organised When Camping
How to Keep Your Tent Tidy, Clean and Organised When Camping
If you want to have an enjoyable, relaxing and stress-free camping experience, it’s essential to keep your tent tidy. Whether you are car camping and have a large family tent or are keeping it minimal with a backpack and small tent, your trip will be much more enjoyable if you organise the stuff in your tent and keep things tidy. A small tent will have fewer storage options than a large tent but people who camp in small tents tend to have fewer things with them compared to a family camping in a large tent.
Tent Storage Ideas for Staying Organised when Camping
Let’s look at how to keep your tent tidy, clean and organised when camping!
Use Your Porch (if you have one)
If your tent has a porch / vestibule, this is a great place for storing things like shoes, wet and muddy clothes, cooking equipment and camping chairs, for example, depending on its size. You can extend some tents with an awning, extension, or a tarp to create extra space. A porch space is a great way to reduce the number of things inside your actual tent which helps keep things tidy.
Utilise Clever Storage Solutions – 1. Ozark 3 Tier Storage Cabinet
Last year, I bought an Ozark 3 Tier Storage Cabinet which you can see here. It’s packs up into a flat and quite compact bag and provides lots of storage for us when we’re camping in a tent or staying in a camping pod. We’re very happy with the purchase and the products is easy to use and sturdy. It has three shelves that fit plenty of stuff, a sturdy tabletop for more storage and a hook on the side too which is ideal for a bin bag. It saves us so much space in our tent!
We store our clothes organised into packing pods (they’re actually designed for reusable nappies but great for camping and lots of other things too). They’re all in different prints to make it easy for everyone to find what they need quickly. They slot into the Ozark 3 Tier Storage Cabinet perfectly. There is a zip to close the unit too.
On top of the unit, we keep a fold-up storage box with our water bottles, hand sanitiser, first aid kit, sun cream and other items that we want to keep within easy reach. You can also see our washing up bowl there with clean pots and pans. We use a large black box for our non-perishable food and two small transparent boxes for other small items. Make sure everyone knows what goes where and that everyone helps put things back properly.
I purchased ours from Asda but there’s a similar option available from Amazon.co.uk too.
Utilise Clever Storage Solutions – 2. Kelty Roadie Life Camp Galley
Anything that’s only used for a while is best tidied and put away after the activity has finished. You can store cooking and kitchen equipment neatly in a Kelty Roadie Life Camp Galley. Kelty has a new collection of useful camping kitchen and car organisers for camping adventures and road trips to keep your gear organised.
This clever organiser has plenty of storage for keeping your cooking equipment organised in your tent. Features include attachment loops so that you can hang it up if you wish, three zippered pockets at the top for things like utensils and spices, a zippered pocket at the bottom for more utensils and two sleeves for larger things like plates, pans or cutting boards, and a paper towel roll holder at the bottom. You can also use this to hang a towel or cloth.
Keep Your Tent Clean
If your tent is organised well, it should be quite easy to keep it clean. This is, as long as there’s a joint effort to keep it tidy. Get everyone involved and all do your best to keep dirt out.
Take a compact doormat and place this at the entrance of the tent. O put it in the porch if you have one. If everyone removes their shoes here, there’s much less risk of treading dirt into the tent.
Do as much of your food prep, cooking and eating outdoors whenever possible. This will help keep any food mess to a minimum (and bugs away from your tent). Lots of campsites in the UK have picnic tables available to use. Sometimes there are sheltered areas to use too.
It’s pretty much impossible to keep every speck of dirt out – you are camping after all! A compact dustpan and brush are great to have with you for small, quick clean-ups.
Collaboration. Features a gifted sample of Kelty Roadie Life Camp Galley.
