“Our family loves the outdoors. We just don’t like sleeping in it.” This is what I heard my 11-year-old daughter telling another girl on our camping trip, who had asked where else we’d been camping.

For families who want to go camping but hesitate at the thought of figuring everything out on their own, guided camping trips can help the experience go smoothly. Guided camping trips aim to make the ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. We'll begin with the KiraVan from Applied minds. The designer says he built this rig "to ...