Top 10 Best Camping Spots in North America

Campfires under Canadian Rockies peaks, turquoise glacial lakes a short hike away, and the genuine possibility of a black bear visiting your site add a layer of excitement no glamping resort can match.

The Chisos Basin campground sits in a volcanic bowl surrounded by desert mountains so remote that the nearest traffic light is 100 miles away and the Milky Way is your night light.

Many Glacier campground delivers mountain goats wandering through sites, Grinnell Glacier a day hike away, and Going-to-the-Sun Road at your doorstep — if you can beat the lottery system.

Over a million acres of interconnected lakes and portages where motors are banned, wolves howl at night, and the loon calls echo across water so still it doubles as a mirror.

Old-growth rainforest meets Pacific surf at campsites where you fall asleep to crashing waves, wake to bald eagles, and spend your days between temperate rainforest hikes and cold-water surfing.

Surreal boulder formations and Dr. Seuss-like trees create an alien landscape where the night sky is so dark that the Milky Way casts actual shadows on your tent.

The first place in the continental US to see sunrise, with lobster shacks a bike ride from your campsite and Cadillac Mountain summit glowing pink before the rest of America wakes up.

Jenny Lake campground at the base of the Teton Range offers views so vertical and immediate that no photograph has ever done justice to the scale of granite towering above your tent.

Canada's oldest provincial park offers canoe-in backcountry sites on pristine lakes where moose wade through morning mist and fall foliage turns the entire landscape into a Tom Thomson painting.

Campfires under Canadian Rockies peaks, turquoise glacial lakes a short hike away, and the genuine possibility of a black bear visiting your site add a layer of excitement no glamping resort can match.

The Chisos Basin campground sits in a volcanic bowl surrounded by desert mountains so remote that the nearest traffic light is 100 miles away and the Milky Way is your night light.

Many Glacier campground delivers mountain goats wandering through sites, Grinnell Glacier a day hike away, and Going-to-the-Sun Road at your doorstep — if you can beat the lottery system.

Over a million acres of interconnected lakes and portages where motors are banned, wolves howl at night, and the loon calls echo across water so still it doubles as a mirror.

Old-growth rainforest meets Pacific surf at campsites where you fall asleep to crashing waves, wake to bald eagles, and spend your days between temperate rainforest hikes and cold-water surfing.

Surreal boulder formations and Dr. Seuss-like trees create an alien landscape where the night sky is so dark that the Milky Way casts actual shadows on your tent.

The first place in the continental US to see sunrise, with lobster shacks a bike ride from your campsite and Cadillac Mountain summit glowing pink before the rest of America wakes up.

Jenny Lake campground at the base of the Teton Range offers views so vertical and immediate that no photograph has ever done justice to the scale of granite towering above your tent.

Canada's oldest provincial park offers canoe-in backcountry sites on pristine lakes where moose wade through morning mist and fall foliage turns the entire landscape into a Tom Thomson painting.