CAMP STOVES AND FIREPLACES

NO DISCUSSION with reference to camp stoves and fireplaces can be complete without including information with reference to the lay-out, especially of camp units.

In the picnic area a tent or shelter is very seldom used. The area in which the family automobile may be parked is usually in a parking space which is within a reasonable distance of the picnic table and fireplace. Food and other supplies are taken from the automobile, in its parking space, to the picnic table. The picnickers prepare, to the extent necessary, the food which must be cooked generally over a fireplace.

In the camp area a tent or shelter is almost always used and the camp stove is the generally acceptable cooking unit. The automobile must be parked very close to the camp unit because it is continuously in use as the family larder to which access must be procured before and after each of the three daily meals. A separate general parking area removed from the camp units is not a practicable solution to the problem.

The solving of the design for the camp unit is more of a problem than the picnic area unit involving only the table and fireplace.

The camp unit may be occupied by the automobile alone, or by an automobile with a trailer. The trailer presents a problem which is different from the problem when only the automobile is used.

The two sketches "A" and "B" indicate two of the methods for developing the camp unit in connection with the trailer. The more practical method of providing space for the automobile and trailer is that of developing a loop, as shown in sketch "B." This loop, when meeting the requirements of a single camp unit, may be a one-way narrow drive, or only of sufficient width to provide for the automobile and trailer, or where the loop meets the requirements of two or more camp units the road way should be "two-way."

It may be desirable in some locations, where a loop is not practicable, to use a spur in which to back the automobile and trailer, as shown in sketch "A." There may be other camp units in which it is desirable to provide for one or more families in a single parking space adjacent to the camp unit, as shown in sketch "C."

The sketches marked "D" to "O", inclusive, show the possibilities for the arrangement of the camp unit in order to provide for the automobile, tent, camp stove (and where desired, campfire) and the picnic table. In some areas, a warming-fire may not be required, and therefore only a camp stove is used, as shown in sketches "F", "H", "J", and "N." In other locations, it is desirable to provide a convertible type of camp stove, which may meet the requirements for cooking and for a warming-fire, as shown in plates X and XI.

PLATE XXVII. (click on image for a PDF version)