Outdoors and Camping

A carabiner's great to have on hand when you're hiking or camping in the woods for securing items together. Pivot X goes several steps further by cramming in a bunch of useful tools into The Clip's sturdy frame – including a knife and a flashlight.

The year in new tent design brought everything from a new breed of ultralight freestanders, to cushier rooftop tents loaded with amenities, to multi-tent inflatable base camps. Here's a look at our staff and reader favorites from 2025.

Following the Freedom Camper, we were wondering if we'd see more wheel-less camper pods hit the scene. Well, we now have another. The new Stubby slide-in camper adds a curvier shape to a versatile truck-to-trailer design with a low price.

Ulefone has already made a name for itself in the rugged smartphone business. Now, it's got a sub-brand that's focused on more niche innovations for people who want more differentiated devices – and its first flagship product is quite something.

After years of admiring iKamper as the modern innovator behind the expandable three/four-person rooftop tent (RTT), we think we've found a new favorite family-size RTT. The Vision XL from Topoak offers a thoughtful design for less than half the MSRP.

Nissan has long offered a few commercial van staples, and in markets not named "USA," it's also developed some very intriguing factory camper vans and concepts. The all-new Primastar Flexvan is both, and it's designed to get all the things done.

The all-new Float tent looks to make camping faster, easier and tailored to the conditions on the ground. It inflates into form in under a minute, and when the ground gets too rocky, soggy or scratchy, the Float leaps up into the trees.

The new Hotomobil Atlas Cabin Box is similar to a few concepts and products we've looked over in the past few months, but it ultimately pulls together a full-bodied pickup camper and a rooftop tent in a way we don't recall seeing before.

Ecno Evil takes a swing at the hardcore off-road camper market from different angle. It strips its Unit-1 trailer down to the bare minimum and focuses on exuding the motto "rugged is not a look; it's a test." And it hits a low price point to boot.

The newest take on the performance sports exoskeleton, the Irmo M1 brings a multi-sensor AI system that automatically adjusts output based on the terrain ahead. It's like an adaptive automotive suspension, only for legs instead of wheels.

The new E13 shrinks down Escape Trailer's rock-solid fiberglass camper construction to 2-sleeper+ size, creating a tiny habitat that tows and stows with ease. Escape offers a baker's dozen color options ranging from ultra-bright to 3 shades of grey.

So many rooftop tents on the market weigh well over 100 lb. The all-new Weekend from Groenberg shatters that mold and weighs in at a fraction of those figures. And for a limited time, it also prices in at a fraction of the competition.