Glamping: Everything You Need To Know — The Female Professional
I recently went glamping to Joshua Tree National Park. If this spot isn’t on your bucket list, then I highly recommend you add it on.
Joshua Tree is a desert park and gets its name from the Joshua tree, which is everywhere. The park also has a ton of different rock formations and boulders, making it a mecca of rock climbing. With hiking, climbing, and camping, it’s an easy weekend or weeklong getaway to spend outdoors exploring and spending quality time with people, and sleeping under the stars.
I’ve done camping before, and it’s not my jam. I’m the kind of person who can hike for hours, but I need a bed and a hot shower at the end of it. So, I decided that I’d try glamping as a compromise. Given all the crazy amazing sights and things to do outdoors, I thought that glamping may be a good way to appreciate those trips a little more (minus the suffering of camping).
Here’s what I’ve learned about glamping.
What Is Glamping?
Glamping is essentially “glamorous camping”. In other words, you’re still able to do all of your outdoor activities, but at the end of the day, instead of sleeping in a tent on the ground in a sleeping bag and roughing it without a shower, you keep the comforts of home. In other words, you can sleep indoors and have access to bathrooms, showers, and running water.
Where Can You Stay When Glamping?
There are a ton of options out there. We chose an Air Bnb in an off the grid little one-room home in the middle of the desert. It afforded us the comforts I mentioned, plus a fire pit, outdoor campfires and grilling, no noise or light pollution, and great views.
Other Glamping Options To Choose From
We chose a small home, but you can also opt for RV camping, an airstream, or sprinter vans are all the rage now. My friend brought a car tent and spent one night in that with insulated sleeping bags.
Some areas have luxury tent cabins, or yurts, available that are super fancy with plenty of standing room, a real bed, and insulation to protect you from the elements. You can think of a yurt as a really large, solid teepee. Then, for the shower part, there’s a communal washroom you can use. Yurts can give you more of the traditional camping experience while also providing cozy luxury camping…
