It’s a no-brainer to drop this handy $35 camping essential in your shopping cart. The Yeti Rambler 14-ounce mug is the ideal traveling companion to keep your drinks warm or cold at campsites. It has Yeti’s signature double wall vacuum insulated interior that keeps your drinks at the perfect temperature, whether you’re enjoying a cup of hot coffee or a mug of cold beer. Its magslider lid keeps the drink securely contained yet easily sippable.
Each arm rest has a built-in insulated hand rest. Comes with the same compact bag with a shoulder strap for carrying. Convenient carrying bag makes is easy to keep in the trunk. Made with a steel frame and rated for up to 300 pounds. The box-shaped cupholder is a little roomier than the round cupholders on the Coleman and the L.L.Bean Base Camp chairs—better for stubby water bottles or mugs of hot chocolate around the campfire.
In summer 2023, she bought a newer Coleman Cooler Quad Chair to compare to her 2016 model, and she found them to be more or less the same. Higher back and a head rest that make it more comfortable. Good design with a small pocket to place your cell phone or snacks near the cup holder. Sturdy arm rests and sits a little higher from the ground, making it a great choice for taller people.
The nice 5-inch wide handle is the perfect size for comfortable gripping. It’s a shopper favorite scoring over 3,900 seals of approval, too. It can hold a lot of supplies, and it’s easy to ozark trail canopy carry and set up. The King Kong chair has two cupholders and intuitively placed storage pouches under each armrest; unlike the Coleman chair, though, this one doesn’t have a cooler pouch.
It’s made of rip-resistant parachute nylon and easily attaches to trees with two 9-foot straps and carabiners. It has raked in over 42,200 five-star ratings with shoppers who love it for its comfort, its durability, its easy setup, and its convenience. The 4-pound, steel-framed REI chair has an attached carry strap, rather than a carry bag (which the other chairs have). After a couple of camping trips, we concluded that a strap is more convenient than a bag—it’s quicker and easier for a kid to grab the chair and go, without parental help. It has the most comfortable and supportive seat shape of any chair we tested. The Dual Lock chair has a firmer backrest and seat bottom than the competition.
This MalloMe camping cookware ticks off all the boxes. All the pieces stack neatly inside each other and collapse to fit in its included nylon drawstring pouch. It has garnered over 6,100 perfect ratings from shoppers who agree it’s ideal for camping and backpacking. It has the highest weight capacity and largest seat of any chair we tested. Out of all the chairs we tested, this chair’s capacity—800 pounds—is the highest (the next-highest weight limit is 500 pounds).
No other chair in our testing pool—except perhaps the extremely pricey Yeti Trailhead—came close to matching the King Kong’s build quality. Its steel frame doesn’t wobble when you get in or out. Our testers consistently said the King Kong chair was the most heavy-duty-feeling model of all the chairs we tested.