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A firepit when camping can not only let you enjoy the great outdoors for longer but they’re also great for toasting marshmallows – and for those with an added grill, you can cook up all manner of foods, from sausages to roasted vegetables, fish in foil and more!
Not all campsites are going to welcome firepits, but if you’re a fan of wild camping and you have the landowner’s permission, some people might think there’s something quite magical about gathering around a crackling fire in the evening. But firepits might not be for everyone…
In this month’s community poll, we’d like to know if you take a firepit on your caravan, campervan, or motorhome holidays.
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Vote using the buttons below and we’d love to hear what you think about the use of firepits on campsites. As always, post your comments in the box below.
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Thanks to everyone for voting and we’ll share the results in September, along with a firepits gear guide.
We use a gas firepit, no smoke and good heat output
Strikes me that you have to have a REALLY good fire going to feel the difference, though the visual impact could be quite rustically romantic – unless the wind decides to blow the smoke over you! If you’re out of the smoke you’re probably also out of the heat! And it’s really bad for the environment. Having said that I find a Ghillie kettle and twig stove useful for my cooking – with limited fumes and max heat for a short while. Ple4ase ensure all fires are out – doused – before bedtime.
I use a Small Cadac simple clean and safe
I have a Biolite Basecamp, Brilliant easy to use store & uses any wood you find where you have stopped.
One of the staples of camping. If your neighbours are close enough too have an opinion, you’re on a too crowded campsite. Sustainable sourced local fire wood is much more net zero than gas that’s travelled from the north see or electric created by coal fired power stations.
It seems to be the “thing” to do these days. We hired one to try but only used it once, our clothes smelt of smoke for days. Also, we seemed to get the benefit of other people’s smoke too who lit them indiscriminately with no thought of where the smoke was going to go. I think fire pits should be confined to one area of the campsite if practicable.
Very anti social
Our upcoming holiday is on a pitch with a Fire Pit part of the pitch
I have a cast iron barbecue which can also be used as a small firepit, but use it only rarely depending on the site rules. The weather this year has severely limited the use of my barbecue.
the people that buy the easy light charcoal and firepits with damp wood are a nuisance, I caravan to enjoy the outdoors not their pollution and drunken singing. many Festivals now ban fires due to nuisence and danger
The Particulate Matter [PM} emitted when burning wood is Extremely Injurious to the lungs, much more so than the PM emitted from the combustion of Diesel.
Would you sit next to the exhaust of a Diesel truck with its engine running or subject any other person or pet, for that matter, to such Dangerous, Unhealthy and frankly Obnoxious environment?
No place for fire pits on campsites. Dangerous, anti social, seem to attract drunken morons.
Suppose they are fine with responsible people????
Unfortunately now with covid campers that is no longer the case, we have now irresponsible people!!!!!!!
Ember burn holes in plastic awnings ruining them. I don’t want open fires anywhere near me.
We don’t carry one, but do like to hire one (and buy seasoned logs) from those sites that provide them. We find those sites take a very responsible attitude, not hiring if the ground is tinder dry, and having sensible rules about where they are placed. Nothing better than sitting by a fire, nursing a beer, wine, rum or even hot chocolate and watching the sun go down.
Firepits are unnecessary, smelly, bad for the environment and if you have a breathing disorder, can actually force you to move away from them to be able to breathe.
Should not be allowed nearby to other caravans due to the smoke / fumes wafting across other folks pitches or inside their caravans
No problem with a separate paved area for them well away from caravans and extinguishers nearby
Fire pits and flammable things like tents and caravans and human lives are too great a risk apart from the fact that not everyone behaves sensibly in the use of these things and when the smoke is drifting in to my caravan it creates tension with the people causing it.
Absolutely agree with you. I really don’t like the smoke from these drifting across my pitch and even into the caravan. I think they are quite anti-social.
Great idea in principle, the problem is when people dont know that green wood doesnt burn. Its not the right environment on a site where there are people close together with fabric structures. We tend to avoid sites that allow firepits..
I think it is unessesory to take a firepit in your caravan and they can be dangerous too. You should be able to do without one whilst on holiday
We have a Bushpig which can be used as a BBQ and a fire pit. It is always used sensibly with a tray full of water under it to prevent any scorching of the grass and, of course, within the rules of the campsite and local area.
Fire pits are great for cool evenings when tent camping. We sometimes holiday with our son wife and three grandchildren in his tent and a fire pit is almost a necessity!
Communal BBQ area (with and extinguisher close by) are a better idea IMHO groups people together and limits the risk of fires.