Outdoors and Camping

Pickup truck campers have been growing lighter, but few come close to the new Thaircamper. The inflatable camper weighs as little as a fiberglass truck cap and inflates in mere minutes into a full alcove sleeper pod that sleeps three to four people.

The latest piece of gear from hardware brand Orioner is a great way to start building a versatile EDC kit. It'll put a durable folding blade in your pocket, along with essential tools, all in a uniquely designed frame that can fit on a keychain.

Airstream has split its Atlas B+ motorhome series into a small lineup. The new Atlas 25RT is designed to live as comfortably as possible for two adventurous road travelers, featuring a reorganized floor plan with eat-in kitchen and full dry bath.

One of the latest releases from Offline Campers, the Ryder LT absolutely screams "Best. Weekend. Ever!" The lightweight trailer is tough enough to tow anywhere, carrying along a single side-x-side or up to 4 dirt bikes and some base camp essentials.

A new type of van for a new type of camper, the Reiter Orca sees a bony Mercedes Sprinter chassis transformed into a high-capacity ultralight transporter positively starving for gear, tools, RV furnishings or whatever else you want to stuff in.

Berg shook up the camper scene when it introduced the CX6, a neat squaredrop that expands out in every direction to create a huge base camp for 6 people. Now it's packaged that same shell into a 3-/4-person camper sized perfectly for a family.

Since launching the Stakeout multitool in 2022, Gerber has grown the family with new tools and tweaks. This year, it's released the Stakeout Drive, a multi-plier with flip-out driver meant to seamlessly shift from weekday DIY to weekend adventure.

The first camper kit developed specifically for Kia's PV5 van hit the market a couple weeks ago, and now we have the world's first pop-up PV5 production camper. Sussex's pop-top PV5 promises to open up new heights of Kia electric base camping.

The all-new 2026 Goldfields Escape Pod camper brings together a virtually indestructible off-road build with a fully loaded living space that multiplies its footprint upon parking, mellowing hot, unwelcoming terrain into comfortable base camp.

Mercedes announced it's bringing production of its Marco Polo camper van in-house, cutting out Westfalia. But Westfalia actually builds a better Mercedes small camper. The Jules Verne has a multi-room layout with the bathroom the Marco Polo lacks.

Volkswagen is giving UK conversion companies a shortcut for creating new campers. Its Multivan Camper comes with a pop-up roof, an available plug-in hybrid, a cockpit, a few other basics and a whole lot of nothing else.

The most egg-shaped of all the egg campers, the Barefoot Caravan has been wowing RVers with its shapely fiberglass for over a decade. Prices have risen quickly during that time, but now Barefoot offers the Bothy as a lighter, cheaper entry model.