The Perfect Campsite Pack List: Printable Checklist

A pack list that already knows what you are up against. Five pages, and most of the decisions made for you.

Redrawn for 2026 in our Journal style: clean type you can read in a dim tent, a tent under a crescent moon on the first page, and a top-down drawing of a loaded car that shows exactly what goes in first.

• The Core Load: shelter and sleep, the camp kitchen, fire and light, the essentials, each with the reason beside it. A block of ice outlasts cubes, and wool stays warm when it is damp.
• Camp Math: water, firewood, propane, coffee and socks, worked out per person and per night so quantities stop being guesses
• Condition Decks: six add-on lists you only check when they apply: Rain Coming In, Cold Snap, With Kids, With a Dog, First Trip Ever, The Gourmet Weekend
• The Countdown: the week before, the night before, the trunk load order, and The Driveway Five, the five things people leave behind most
• The Meal Plan: a grid with room to write, cooler and pantry side by side

Every one of the 87 checkboxes is tappable on a phone or tablet, and it prints cleanly on US Letter at home. It closes with The Golden Hour Rule, our favorite piece of camping advice.

Instant download, nothing ships. Print one for every trip.

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