Family Camping Trends—An Eight-Year Panel Study

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Abstract
Eight years of annual camping participation data, reported by a panel of 459 camping families, revealed that 51 percent of the campers were either camping less or had dropped out of the camping market. One out of every four families had increased their camping participation from an average of 22 days per year in the period 1964–1968 to 36 days in 1969–1971. Campers with increasing or decreasing trends were more likely to have experienced a change in their style of camping than were those families with a constant or highly variable pattern of participation. Style changes were in two distinctly different directions: toward a more primitive type of camping experience, or toward season-long rentals and advance reservations at commercial campgrounds. Changes in the family life cycle were reported to have influenced camping participation—but in no consistent pattern.

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