Camping in Your Own Back Yard! 

Colorado is arguably the best place to live in the country for summer camping at your fingertips and many of us are starting to get out our gear for the season. If you’re a parent that camps with your kids, you know that some of the best memories made are when we’re out in the middle of nowhere, unplugged from technology, sitting around the campfire, able to really talk to each other.  

However, with all the rain this year, it may be a gamble if your favorite spot is worth the four hour drive with kids in tow only to find it mudded out. Or maybe you’ve had a long week and just don’t feel like packing and unpacking the whole wagon.  

Camping in your backyard is something my family LOVES to do and having a fire pit makes it so much easier for us to recreate those campfire and s’mores memories. Even though we have access to the bathrooms inside, we set up the full tent, bust out the s’mores, and even cook hotdogs over our firepit. We sometimes think of firepits as the home entertaining space for adults, but that fire pit is also surprisingly great at keeping the kids unplugged and makes it feel like we’re really camping. 

The firepit we have is the Prism Hardscapes Tavola Series and love it. Sometimes we do use our Napoleon Charcoal Grill to cook on to get that rugged, smoky flavor of real wood. 

If you are getting out to camp this summer, we love the Pit Boss Portable Griddle. It’s very easy to do bacon and eggs for the whole family on one surface. Also cooking out on a Louisiana Grill.