Huh? What the heck is a portable camping shower!?

That’s right, portable camping showers do exist even though it’s not the typical item that campers are usually looking for when browsing their local camping store.

Remember the last time you went camping for more than 2 days with no accessible showers and couldn’t stop thinking about how nice it would feel to get back home to a nice warm shower? For some people, this feeling of uncleanliness can really turn a fun camping weekend into a negative experience.

Well, with your own personal camping shower you can say goodbye to the unpleasant feeling of being sticky all over after a weekend of camping.

Sure, you can find a public camping shower on some campgrounds but we all loathe the idea of going in there knowing how gross it is. I, for one, instinctively start tip-toeing the minute I get in there so that my feet don’t fully get in contact with that vile and dirty public showers floor. On top of that, you do need to get up pretty early before the others if you want to have enough hot water.

Another option is to grab a bar of soap and wash up in a nearby lake or river but this is damaging to wildlife water creatures and also not the most practical idea since taking a shower requires some privacy and often the campground is right on the lake or river and that makes it uncomfortable to start washing in open view. Also, bathing in a lake during the summer is just fine but wait when fall arrives and then it becomes quite a feat to wash in water this cold.

A complete portable camping shower is very simple: it includes a shower tent and a solar shower bag. The more expensive and sophisticated models come with heavier and more efficient heating equipment like propane gas units. Most of the portable camping showers I’ve experienced fold very easily and some are light enough that you can carry along with your backpack although a majority of camp shower types are pretty heavy and are more suited for being carried around in your car. You can unfold the tent anywhere and hang the shower bag from the ceiling of the tent or outside, hanging from a tree, a boulder or anything high enough and you have a warm shower from the privacy of the shower tent.

If you buy a solar-heated shower you do have to wait for the shower bag to be heated by the sun for at least 2 hours, depending on the shower bag capacity, to have the perfect water temperature so you will have to plan ahead in that regard.

For example, after a day of hiking you can decide to stop while the sun is still out, fill up the shower bag at a nearby body of water and lay it down on a rock or a dark surface to speed up the heating. You can also leave the shower bag outside all night and in the morning when waking up, it will have been heated by the morning sun rays and you can then enjoy the luxury of taking a nice morning shower in nature.

Nowadays, everyone can go camping without the lack of hygiene and comfort usually associated with camping. Go ahead, get one of the available camping shower solutions on the market and add it to your camping gear. You won’t be disappointed and you will feel fresher for the day ahead.

Note that you can also use a portable camping shower for fishing, hunting, sailing, at the beach or any other outdoor activity you can think of.