Wild Fire season looks to be a long one this year.So can you camp without a campfire?I can and do most of the time. Alas the wife loves a fire so to please her we oxidize a little wood on occasion.Must be something to do with human evolution that so many must have a fire or they are not camping.Yet I think campfires and fire rings in remote places are unsightly, smelly, and just generally disagreeable.

I got the beer.. Who has the popcorn !?FYI... Health reasons now prohibit me from being close to a campfire :(

I'm the same pretty much. Don't have much for the smoke or smell. Happy just to sit around and talk a spell. Now I have thought of the gas fire rings. No smoke, no smell, heat on the cool evenings and you can still roast things on em.

Put in my vote for campfires. Whenever I smell wood smoke I think of camping. One goes with the other. Now keep in mind I do not have a fire every time I go camping but it is a nice thing to have when the mood swings that way.

The grandkids like to have smores. I prefer using the microwave and avoid the smoke and heat in the Florida summer. They prefer a fire. So, when they are camping with me, I acquiesce.

Campfires can you do without? | Good Sam Community

2oldman
Explorer II
Aug 23, 2013
Hang on.....
ford_truck_guy
Nomad
Aug 23, 2013
I got the beer.. Who has the popcorn !?

FYI... Health reasons now prohibit me from being close to a campfire :(
tktplz
Explorer
Aug 23, 2013
I'm the same pretty much. Don't have much for the smoke or smell. Happy just to sit around and talk a spell. Now I have thought of the gas fire rings. No smoke, no smell, heat on the cool evenings and you can still roast things on em.
michael8rc
Explorer
Aug 23, 2013
Put in my vote for campfires. Whenever I smell wood smoke I think of camping. One goes with the other. Now keep in mind I do not have a fire every time I go camping but it is a nice thing to have when the mood swings that way.
Eycom
Explorer
Aug 23, 2013
The grandkids like to have smores. I prefer using the microwave and avoid the smoke and heat in the Florida summer. They prefer a fire. So, when they are camping with me, I acquiesce.
rjf7g
Explorer
Aug 23, 2013
We got a Little Red Campfire and sit around it some times when we cannot have wood fires.
rfryer
Explorer
Aug 23, 2013
michael8rc wrote:
Put in my vote for campfires. Whenever I smell wood smoke I think of camping. One goes with the other. Now keep in mind I do not have a fire every time I go camping but it is a nice thing to have when the mood swings that way.

Same for me.
BB_TX
Nomad
Aug 23, 2013
We have an occasional fire when the kids and grandkids are with us. Otherwise, no we typically don't.
No problem doing without. Especially in crowded campgrounds or RV parks where the smoke might drift thru the neighbor's sites.
roam1
Explorer
Aug 23, 2013
Lots of Stuff wrote:

Yet I think campfires and fire rings in remote places are unsightly, smelly, and just generally disagreeable.

I'm exactly opposite, love them in remote places, hate them in cramped /crowded places....
Halmfamily
Explorer
Aug 23, 2013
At least one campfire per trip. The kids and wife enjoy them but I could care less about them. My son makes it a mission to build the perfect fire so I enjoy watching him do it especially when I give him one match too light it with.