Some of best camping lanterns: fuel/electric

Powerful lanterns with various lighting modes to illuminate your camping holiday

Lighting up your environment is imperative for a safe, comfortable and enjoyable camping experience. Whether you’re on your own on the side of a mountain, on holiday with the family at a campsite, or backpacking across Europe, a great camping lantern will transform your evenings.

Pick one you can hold, hang up and carry around and you can light up your entire camping space.

There are myriad options on the camping lantern market, and they each offer different advantages. You can evaluate them on light output, power supply, burn time, durability, among other factors. In this article, we’ll be looking the ones we’ve enjoyed using and would recommend purchasing.

We’ll be looking at a few options. There are goodlooking decorative lamps with real flames, ideal for large family camping setups. We're also evaluating handy, lightweight electric devices. These are perfect for hanging on backpacking tents if you're wild camping or heading out into the mountains.

The kind of lantern you’ll need with indeed depend largely on what kind of camping you’ll be doing. Electric are lightweight so good for travel, fuel ones are brighter and sturdier in general so good if you’re staying in one place.

Somewhere between

200 to 500 lumens is perfect for a well lit camp site, easy to manoeuvre around.

It's worth forking out for a lantern that is robustly water resistant and durable. It's all too easy for lanterns to be left outside overnight.

Gas lanterns are more vulnerable to water ingress, due to their glass lenses so bear this in mind.

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