Worth it? Headed camping next week and thinking of getting one. Sites will have traditional fire rings but I've heard these get much warmer and smoke is nonexistent.

Is it still fun sit around one of these vs a regular campfire?

We love our Bonfire on the patio. I don't know that I would take it camping again though...just depends on 3 things:
1. Do you have room for it to travel?
2. It burns through wood faster than a normal fire, and you must use smaller pieces.
3. it will need to have air around the bottom of it...a fire ring can prevent it from working fully as intended...just depends on the size and shape of the fire ring.

It will definitely put out more heat, especially if you have a deflector. Once you get it going, it's much less smoky, and the flames are mesmerizing. Just don't have any wood sticking out the top, and add wood to the outermost areas of the inside walls.

Headed to Colorado in our RV so space shouldn't be an issue. Will be burning pinion pine.

Small pieces may be hard to come by. Are you splitting your own wood? Assume you can't just buy a cord of oak for home use?

We love ours

Make sure to check up on local current burn bans....it would suck to haul it all that way and find out there was a ban

I have one. Use it at home all the time. They have different sizes, mine is the bonfire. Kids can roast marshmallows, and adults can sit around it without all the smoke.

Camping, I just use the fire rings there instead of hauling mine. Only time I've hauled it is when camping in primitive off-road sites without rings. It worked fine and no setup required. Just bulky, which sounds like won't be a problem for you.

Just make sure you keep the ash cleaned out. It'll smoke if you don't.

Pine wood will burn quickly.

Nice.

Yeah, bonfire was the size I was looking at. Yukon would be nice but it weighs like 50+lbs.

Size of wood and type is my concern here. That pinion pine burns so damn fast I imagine it would be like paper burning in one of these things.

Size of log too. With it only being 17" tall, your traditional 18" logs are going to struggle to fit.

Main campground we're going to should be good.

Roadrunner RV park in red river, NM only allows "above ground fire pits"

The heat goes up and not out. To get warm, you have to get pretty close.

billyjack2009 said:

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The heat goes up and not out. To get warm, you have to get pretty close.

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Yeah, they're great at the house when your wife doesn't want to smell smoky. No benefit when camping in my opinion.

ChoppinDs40 said:

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Nice.

Yeah, bonfire was the size I was looking at. Yukon would be nice but it weighs like 50+lbs.

Size of wood and type is my concern here. That pinion pine burns so damn fast I imagine it would be like paper burning in one of these things.

Size of log too. With it only being 17" tall, your traditional 18" logs are going to struggle to fit.

Main campground we're going to should be good.

Roadrunner RV park in red river, NM only allows "above ground fire pits"

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That is why I got a Yukon, so I can put normal sized split wood in it. Haven't used it yet though. It's a little bulky but I can move it myself.

In my opinion, if burning pinion, I would just use the fire ring. Half the fun of burning g pinion is the smell of the smoke…

Youkon size is great, but I would not purchase it with the intention of traveling with it....I think it's designed more to be the stationary back yard firepit

Granny's old washing tub works great at the ranch! Looks like this

billyjack2009 said:

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The heat goes up and not out. To get warm, you have to get pretty close.

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They sell deflector plates now that help disperse the the heat to be arround the pit and not just above it now