All this adds up to a solid chair and a reasonable price that looks good and won’t let you down. First, consider the type of trips you’re looking to take your camp chair on. If you’re more of the light and fast type, you may be better suited to a backpacking chair. But if settling down in front of a campfire sounds like your type of evening, a camping chair is likely right up your alley. We will note that there are a few chairs on the market that will do both, and these can be considered if you want one chair to do it all. For car camping, this mainly matters for fitting everything in your vehicle and carrying it short distances.
Folding up a Coleman camp chair is easier than you might think, regardless of how many pockets, coolers, or other fancy features they may have. All you need to do is grab onto the armrests and draw them towards the center, and the rest of the chair should collapse. After this, you’ll want to slide the folded chair into the carrying sling, and then you can be on your way. The canopy quickly and easily transforms into a carrying case—just wrap it around the chair and snap it closed with two plastic buckles, and you can carry the whole thing on your back like an oblong backpack. We brought this chair to a dense Los Angeles neighborhood to watch Fourth of July fireworks.
So camping — whether out of my truck on the side of remote Canadian highways or in our backyard near the White Mountains — is no foreign concept to me. If you’re planning to be on rocky ground in the backcountry, we like the Travelchair Joey. It’s designed with a wide construction that allows for versatility on uneven ground.
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The ENO Lounger DL ($140) slings low and cradles you when you sit down, making for one very comfortable seat. And it’s no one-trick pony either, as the impressive storage coleman camping chair pockets will attest to. In order to find the best camping chairs, we’ve spent countless hours testing chairs in a variety of locations and weather conditions.
At 13.5”, it may be a little too tall to bring to a concert, but it’s perfect for beach nights, Fourth of July cookouts, car camping, lake days, date night under the stars, or family reunions. The sturdy aircraft-grade coleman canopy parts and clever folding design make it more expensive than other chairs. However, we found we were more likely to reach for this chair than others we tested because of its comfort and ease of set-up and break-down.