It’s no secret Aussies are built tough, and winter camping is no exclusion to that rule, when the temperature drops a few degrees there is no shortage of tough eggs who love to get out and put themselves through what would seem like HELL to anyone who doesn’t head bush every now and then and know at least some of the tricks of the trade!

Here at 4WD Supacentre we know that a lot of people reserve their camping trips for the summer time, with visions of sunshine and icy cold beers at the beach but we don’t reckon that it has to be like this. In fact, if you make a few small upgrades to your campsite and your regular camping gear that you take out bush or to the beach with you, then you can just as easily and just as comfortably enjoy a fantastic camping adventure before the end of winter!

4WD Supacentre is Australia’s best-value camping store, because all the gear we sell has that perfect combination of excellent quality and unbeatable price. Our camping stores around the country and our online camping store available 24/7 have a massive range of the best deals on camping gear. Here’s our guide to four ways to make camping more appealing this winter, so you can get out there more often!

Use a suitable Camping Shelter

Not having the proper shelter is absolutely the number one problem most people associate with camping in winter. If you are not being protected properly from the harsh elements life at camp can be an extremely miserable. You can set up any of the Adventure Kings Shelter setups in only a couple of minutes and offer a comforting amount of protection from the elements, particularly when you add the optional Adventure Kings Awning Wall or Awning Tent or some of the reliable and waterproof Gazebo Accessories to your setup. These accessories are easy to use, incredibly spacious and best of all have the ability to stop those frosty winter winds from blowing their way up and underneath your campsite. Our favourite setup is setting up our Adventure Kings Awning with 2 of the Adventure Kings Awning Walls setup on either side and an Adventure Kings Big Daddy Deluxe Swag setup underneath, this provides an awesome sheltered space and reflects heat back into the swag keeping you toasty warm, even when it is freezing cold outside!

Keep warm with a camp fire

We love any excuse to have a camp fire, even in the yard when we aren’t at camp! but some councils dont like open fires in yards, and many campsites start to get a bit uppity when you start burning fire pits in their pristine well watered lawns! With an Adventure Kings Camp Oven Stove, you can set up your campsite (or backyard) with a warm and highly efficient campfire that not only burns less wood more efficiently and hotter but also directs the smoke up and away from your campsite, meaning no-one has to sit with stinging eyes at camp no matter which way the wind is blowing!

Bring 240V to camp with a camping Generator!

Whether it’s to power some lights, an electric space heater or an electric blanket for your swag or roof top tent, with a 240v generator you can even power your beautiful coffee machine from home with flat whites, and cappuccino on tap on tap thanks to your Adventure Kings camping generators, it is a brilliant way to make winter camping more comfortable! Our whole range of camping generators are extremely reliable, so you won’t struggle out in the cold to get them started, and they’ll go for ages on bugger-all unleaded fuel too. Whether it’s the Adventure Kings 2kVa camping generator or the massive Adventure Kings Colossus 3.5kVa camping generator, or our brand new range of Adventure Kings Open Generators you’ll be able to power just about anything you want anywhere you want for a comfortable night’s camping this winter.

SLEEP IN A QUALITY SWAG FOR A GREAT NIGHT’S SLEEP

Nothing’s more miserable than a cold night’s sleep, but thankfully the Adventure Kings range of swags are built for camping in cold weather. That’s thanks to the heavy-duty ripstop canvas and the ultra-thick PVC bucket floor that you can find on all of our range of swags. If you add in one or two of the Adventure Kings premium sleeping bags then you’ll have one of the warmest nights’ camp sleeps ever! As one of our customers put it on our Facebook page recently – ‘The Adventure Kings Big Daddy Deluxe is as comfortable as my bed at home!’ – and we’d have to agree!

SOLAR PANELS KEEP YOUR 12V SETUP CHARGED

Did you know that even though it is cool, the winter sun still blasts the earth with heavy UV rays and without the summer heat, you’ll find this is the absolute best time you could possibly use a camping solar panel!

Heat is the enemy of all electronics, this is because heat creates a voltage drop by making all of the conductors and wires within a circuit more resistant to current flow, this means that during summer, your panels reduce their efficiency by baking in the sun.

In winter, camping solar panels don’t have to deal with the heat and the voltage drop issues that it causes.

Of course, the trade-off is that you have to make sure that your camping solar panel is constantly facing the sun all day owing to the fact that there are less sunlight hours in each shorter day when compared to longer summer days, but a camping solar panel is an extremely effective bit of 12v camping gear to use all winter long.