r/CampingGear
r/CampingGear is a Travel & Places community on Reddit with 942,728 members, ranking #23 of 1,085 in Travel & Places. A community to get advice and to show off camping and backpacking gear. Helpful folks who love the hobby as much as you do. Please note: We may initiate another blackout to further protest the API changes. Some of the largest subreddits such as r/funny and r/teenagers are going private indefinitely.
How big is r/CampingGear?
Created in 2012, r/CampingGear has had over a decade to grow and is a large community by Reddit standards. Within Travel & Places it ranks #23 of 1,085 communities we track — the top 2.1% of the category by subscriber count. That puts it about 917× the median Travel & Places subreddit, which has 1,028 members. It is a work-safe community with no 18+ flag on Reddit.
For scale, the largest Travel & Places community we track is r/travel with 14,363,834 members — roughly 15 times the size of r/CampingGear. Reddit itself launched in 2005, so a subreddit created in 2012 sits in the middle wave of community building on the platform. Subscriber counts indicate reach, not activity — a large community can be quiet, and a smaller one busy. Open r/CampingGear on Reddit to see how often people actually post before deciding whether it is worth joining.
| Members | 942,728 |
|---|---|
| Category | Travel & Places |
| Rank in category | #23 of 1,085 |
| Created | 2012 |
| Category median size | 1,028 members |
| Content rating | Work-safe (SFW) |
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