What ages are appropriate for camping?

[newname19]

I am 15 myself and My dad and my mom brings me camping.
There is less responsiblities for me and the food and things are cooked by my parents.
I feel very safe when I am camping

[nawza07]

depends on the individual. but as good as possible was at the age 16 years old because you could care for self at that time. for those aged under 16 years old your needs adult supervision

[wild]

I think any age is okay but better not to take small children under the age of 8. You need to take lot of care while taking children for camping.

[trek]

There is no age limit for camping.You can camp at any age you like.Only this is that you should be fit enough to walk and climb.I have see people of age 58 come for a camp.But it also depends on that particular person.Hope many will agree with me.

thank you

[JohnyWalker2000]

i think that 7 years old it's enough to camping. the chirldren must be accomodate for nature. the children under 7 years could be scared and the parents it must take care very much. I started camping at the 10 years old and the first time i didn't like because i was scared of loneliness . At 12 years i started to love the trips .

[vidit]

There is no age limit in camping but child should know about camping that means they should proper knowledge of forest like swim,jungle area and they should know about animal.and any one can go for camping they can walk on mountain.people who go for camping they don't have fear.

[Grandpa]

Interesting to read some of these old threads with posts written by people who are long gone from the forums. Either I am strange or some of these people had strange ideas about the capacity of youth and us old folks to enjoy the outdoors.

[Lamebeaver]

Children are born ready to camp. Personally, I'd wait until they're at least 6 months, as it makes your life a little easier.

[ppine]

I am surprised to hear so many people put limitations on the ages deemed appropriate for camping. The answer is any age. We started as infants, and so did my father, grandfather, and great grandfather before us.

I was born in Puerto Rico. My Dad used to take me out in the military issue jeep and sling a hammock made from a gunny sack between the windshield and the roll bar. When my Mom stopped breast feeding, they warmed up the formula on the exhaust manifold. My first solid food was little red bananas.

I have been in plenty of hunting camps with guys over 90. They need thicker beds than they used to, but real hunters know that there is no place they would rather be.

I met a guy on a trail ride with the Skyline Trail Riders of Oregon named Ike who was 94. He had been a professional packer in the 1930s and 40s. I asked him how many mules they had in a string in those days. He said "Anything less than 12 was a partial string."

We started backpacking at age 11 without adults. We spent a week on an island without adults at age 12 and 13.

Lots of cultures still raise their kids in the bush. Those children are good with donkeys when they are 5 and can handle a knife by 6 or 7 to skin dinner.

[Grandpa]

I liked the 16 years old thought. Considering my Dad was a wilderness packer to the sheep camps at age 14 and my son and grandsons were backpacking independant of adults by age 10-11.

By the way Ppine, my Dad's string was based on what was needed to resupply the 2-3 camps he would be restocking but it usually was 10-12. The thing that amazed me was how he would travel 100 miles deep into what is now the Frank Church wilderness based on verbal instructions and 50 years later tell me creek and ridge his entire routes. He didn't need maps or compass either.