Let there be light at your campsite! Camping, cooking & experiencing camping with light increases the experience immensely!
Don’t just think you need a torch for camping these days as there are multiple lighting options that will light up your campsite completely, or even provide some safety aspects to your camping setup.
Only you will know what camping lighting products will work the best for you and your camping setup, but we would like to tell you about the top 7 lighting options that we would suggest to help light up your campsite!
1. LED Bar Lighting Kits
The LED Bar Lighting Kit is by far our favourite lighting solution for camping as this lighting system is versatile, dimmable & can light up your whole campsite! Many of these lighting kits can be powered through the car or through a power point if you are glamping it up at a powered campsite.
The bar lighting kits often also come in multiple colours which allow you to adjust the light to suit the mood at the campfire, or to set the orange light which tends to work well for deterring mosquitoes and other insects.
This lighting setup can also be mounted on your gazebo, your car, your tent or hung from other key points around your campsite. With larger kits you can extend the bar kit so that it encircles the focus point of your camping setup, allowing you to chop your food, cook your steak, play cards or read a good book without needing to worry about it getting dark.
2. USB LED Camping Lantern
Camping lanterns has been a preferred camping lighting option for decades, but the technology around the camping lantern has progressed greatly over the years, as has the quality of the lanterns.
LED camping lanterns are great for lighting up a central point at your campsite as they have the capacity to light up a large area. With many being rechargeable, or powered by a usb through your car, this enables light to be powered from anywhere, even if you have booked a non-powered campsite!
Another benefit of camping lanterns are that they are compact & easy to mount with a hook and also easy to relocate if you wish to have light in another location at your campground.
3. LED Rechargeable Headlamp
Have you ever tried cooking food with a normal torch, or trying to take your kids to the local campground bathroom with a torch in one hand, the towels, clothes, kids, phone, soap & toothbrush in the other? If so, you probably wished that you had an extra hand free so that you could use that to cook your food or carry everything across the campsite in the dark!
This is why headlamps are such fantastic lighting options for camping – as they give you flexibility to continue to work with your hands whilst having excellent lighting. It makes the whole process of cooking camping food so much easier and also makes your camping trip so much more enjoyable.
Some people also love to use headlamps when seeking for wildlife such as possums at night as the light follows their eyesight, so if they are looking up a tree where a possum just ran, the light will follow. The kids love this as their eyes naturally follow the movement of the animals, but sometimes their little torches are a bit slow to follow!
4. Glow-In-The-Dark Peg Sticks For Ultimate Trip Hazard Safety
We can’t even remember how many times we have tripped over tent pegs both as kids and as adults, because we have done it so many times! Even if you know the tent peg or rope is spun right next to your campsite, you will find a way to trip over it at least once or twice during your camping trip.
One incredible solution to improve the safety around your campsite and also to light it up is to place glow-in-the-dark sticks next to your tent pegs or other trip hazards. This helps kids to be careful when playing around the campsite and helps everyone when they need to sneak out to the bathrooms in the pitch black in the middle of the night.
We love this camping safety hack at it is affordable and so easy to setup around your campsite. You can even keep a few extra glow sticks to your kids to play with – they will love it!
5. Solar String Fairy Lights & Rope Lights
Some people love making things pretty & creating a great atmosphere wherever they go. If this is you, then placing solar powered fairy lights or even rope lights around your campsite is the perfect solution!
We think of fairy lights as “glamping”, but in reality it’s an affordable & easy way to camp in style, yet still achieve the practicality of lighting up your campsite. Rope lights are also a great alternative as it appears to combine the bar lighting kit effect with the fairy light effect (a great compromise if one person prefers practicality and another prefers stylish camping).
6. Rechargeable Flashlight
Flashlights or torches are still the foundational lighting option that people turn to when thinking of lighting options as they remain compact, portable, lightweight & practical. They are easy to use for both kids and adults, and quick to grab if you need to light up an area, find an object in your bag or go for a walk in the dark.
The one thing that seems to occur more than we’d like with torches are that their batteries die right at the moment when we need them the most! This is why the rechargeable flashlights are such a great option when thinking about what torch to buy as you know that you can recharge the batteries when they get flat!
7. Compact LED Work Light
LED Work Lights are a must-have lighting solution as they are not only compact, bright & portable, but they are often easily mounted with a hook or magnets!
We love the work lights as they can be kept in the glovebox of the car to ensure that they are accessible whenever you need them! You’ll never have to worry about sitting in the dark again at a campsite, or even be caught out if you need light elsewhere during the night when you are out & about.
With the work lights being so affordable, you can even consider grabbing a couple to store in different locations such as your car, camping crate, caravan or camper trailer. They even make for great presents if you get stuck for gift ideas throughout the year!