5 Pieces of Gear You Actually Need To Go Camping with your Toddler

UST Flexware Bucket

For The Discoverer,

Every parent has one. The dark, dusty corner where all the baby gear, toys and gadgets people *think* you need (thanks, internet) end up. Preparing to go camping for the first time as a family can fuel this fire. You search for “Baby hiking backpack” one time, and are suddenly assaulted on social media with 4,000 very cool - but ultimately very unnecessary - products to get you and your little tike outdoors.

Bursting into toddlerhood during a pandemic, our two-year-old has been lucky enough to be carted into the woods at least a dozen times since he was born (mainly because we can’t go anywhere else). Much of the gear we thought we needed at the beginning, however, has since been sadly resigned to ‘the corner’ to gather dust. Practice makes perfect though, so here are five products that have actually ended up in our permanent gear rotation.

A Makeshift Mobile Toy Box

Like many mini humans, our son cannot go anywhere without clutching precisely seven different-size toys at all times. We often go camping in the mountains around our Los Angeles home, and this was no different. After a few trial and error trips where Hot Wheels ended up mostly lost or shoved into the dark corners of our car, never to be seen again, we finally discovered the perfect mobile toy box by accident: UST Gear’s Flexware Bucket.

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