CarCamp

09/01/2026

Do you go car camping with your dog?

08/31/2026

Car to bed in less than 5 minutes. Bed to car in 90-seconds or less.

Sometimes we race to see just how quickly we can get the bed put away. The faster we go, the quicker we get out in the woods on our road trips.

10/06/2025

New product launch!!!

Turn your front passenger seat into a dog bed with CarCamp’s front-seat dog bed platform. This platform adjusts in length to extend the front seat to the dash, has adjustable legs to make a sturdy base for your furry friend, and comes with spacers fo level the angle of your seat under the platform.

This platform comes apart and packs down flat for storage under or behind your seats when it’s not in use. Camp and travel comfortably with your dog, then easily convert your front seat back to a seat!

06/25/2024

https://gocarcamp.com/blogs/car-camping-tips/air-mattress-or-foam-mattress-for-car-camping

Air mattress or memory foam mattress for car camping? It’s a heated and heavily divided question. Go to any Reddit thread about the topic and you’re likely to see the war rage on. In the end, there’s no “right” answer that someone can give you. The correct answer is what works best for you...

05/15/2024

Me smirking as I think about being a female gear designer in the male-dominated industry of outdoor gear.

04/08/2024

The perfect CarCamp setup for solar eclipse viewing. I really believe there are an infinite number of activities that these CarCamp kits can help you enjoy. CarCamp and road trips are obvious ones, here are some others:
• drive-in movies
• picnics
• date nights
• visiting family (I like having a quiet space I can retreat to)
• post-party bed
• mid-day naps at work
• mid-day naps at play
• sunset watching

03/29/2024

CarCamp started out as a product for myself. I wanted to travel and road trip with my dog (a 90-pound Golden). Originally, I’d just thrown a mattress in the back of the Subaru, but a large dog requires space and a lot of food, and I require space and a lot of food, too! The time required to move everything (that I piled onto the mattress during the day) into the front seats at night for sleeping, wasn’t sustainable and made me feel vulnerable as I stood in random parking lots shifting things around after dark. So I knew I needed to solve the problem of storage.

The kit has evolved a great deal since the mattress on the floor, and since the version in this post with under-bed storage, but one thing was constant through the whole process: how much every version of the kit allowed me to travel and spend time with my dog before he passed away. If you’re wondering what you’ll remember when your pup is gone, it’s the moments of pause, like this, in the middle of your adventures together. This weekend, take a moment to just be outside with your puppers.

03/21/2024

I (me, the lady on the left 🙋‍♀️) designed the CarCamp kit so that it folds up and can stay in the cargo space when it’s not in use. This is honestly one of my favorite features. When the kit is folded up, the drawers and drawer tops are still accessible and useable. This makes post-hike lunches so fun snd easy.

I’m a big fan of post-hike, roadside picnics, especially when you have the space to make something hot and delicious on a chilly day!

Cheers to all the picnics ahead of you!! 🍻

03/01/2024

In 2020 I was still in the planning and development phase of the lightweight, moveable, and convertible CarCamp kits that I’m selling now. was about to drive across the country to photograph a Rocky Mountain wedding. To avoid staying in gross hotels and to minimize expose to the virus, she wanted to car camp.

The car camping set up I built for her (in a day, with just a jigsaw, chop saw and drill - don’t judge) was not moveable or lightweight, but it did help me make some discoveries that I’ve used to design the CarCamp kit, and it did help her have a safe and enjoyable trip across the country - and eat tacos along the road on the way.

Different folks car camp for different reasons and hearing more about the reasons helps me make a better product.

Why do you sleep, travel, camp, or live in your car?