12 Benefits of camping on an adventure

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Why is camping good for you? The health benefits of camping are plentiful for both adults and young people. When you’re spending time at home in your usual routine, you may not realize just how much you’re missing away from nature.

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THE BENEFITS OF CAMPING
Camping has a great number of benefits for everyone, old and young, that you and your loved ones can enjoy while spending time in the great outdoors:

  1. CAMPING HELPS WITH STRESS REDUCTION
    Leave the overbooked scheduling at home or work. When you’re camping, there’s no place to be at a certain time, and there’s nothing interrupting you or competing for your attention. The natural outcome of this type of setting is stress reduction and relaxation like you can’t find anywhere else.
  1. FRESH AIR HAS NUMEROUS BENEFITS
    You may not realize how scarce fresh air is in your day to day life. When you go camping, you get the wondrous scents of the outdoors, as well as the smell of dinner cooking over an open fire.
  2. CAMPING IMPROVES RELATIONSHIPS
    One of the best and most important aspects of camping is how it helps you build and strengthen relationships. When you go camping with friends or family, you get a chance to talk and visit without distraction, even late into the night.
  3. CAMPING PROMOTES PHYSICAL FITNESS
    Time spent camping is physical time. You set up a tent, gather firewood, go for a hike. At home, we often lead sedentary lives that do not promote physical fitness. When you’re camping, you can’t help but engage in physical activity and get your heart rate up.

5. GET BETTER SLEEP QUALITY WHEN CAMPING
When was the last time you slept late without an alarm clock to wake you up? When you’re camping, the only alarm clocks you have are the sun and the chirping of birds. Waking up with nature rather than an alarm clock is an experience everyone should have regularly.

6. CAMPING ALLOWS YOU TO UNPLUG
Camping is a great chance for everyone to unplug and get away from their screens. In the great outdoors, you don’t find computers, tablets or televisions and there’s so much else to do that does not require electronics.

7. CAMPING GIVES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY GREAT FOOD
Food just tastes better when prepared in the outdoors. There’s something about cooking food over a Campfire or a campsite grill that just can’t be replicated when you’re eating at home. Plus, nothing beats s’mores made over an open fire. We always dream big and plan a great menu before we head out on next camping trip.

8. HAVE THE CHANCE TO CONNECT WITH NATURE
When you’re camping, you get a chance to get in touch with nature, encounter wildlife and see the stars away from the bright lights of the big city. There’s nothing quite like it. Make sure you and your family have the chance to connect with nature when you explore the many benefits of camping.

9. DEVELOP NEW SKILLS WHILE CAMPING
You can’t help but develop new skills while camping. Everyone on the trip will contribute and it’s a great chance to learn new things. You may learn how to set up tents, tie knots, start fires, cook a new meal and more. These skills are important to have, and yet we don’t often get a chance to develop them during the course of our regular busy schedules.

    Campfire

    While the benefits of camping for adults also apply to young people, there are a number of benefits specific to younger campers.

    1. AN ABUNDANCE OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE WHEN CAMPING
      For young people, time spent camping is time spent learning, which is one of the reasons programs such as scouting are so valuable. They facilitate camping experiences that are built around young people, learning new things, including cooking, hiking, tying knots, fire-starting, safety, first aid and much more.
    2. CAMPING GROWS CONFIDENCE
      It’s important for young people to gradually become more independent and confident in their own capabilities. One of the benefits of camping for youth is that it allows them to learn independence in a safe and controlled environment. Youths become more confident as they learn new things and have first-time experiences.
    3. BUILD SOCIAL CONNECTIONS THROUGH CAMPING
      Camping is beneficial for people and their communities because it can help strengthen bonds between members — workers, service providers, business people, professionals, academicians, and the list goes on.

    You will all return home feeling much stronger as a group.

    Camping on Sipi Falls

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