Today’s Camping Lanterns

Today’s camping lanterns are more sophisticated than those of the first glass and fire burning style. Today’s technology uses LCD - Liquid Crystal Display - lighting and batteries so that the fears of fires in the tents are eliminated. In addition to the burns to ones arms one might experience when leaning over a burning lantern or the chance to catch clothing on fire.

Battery operated lanterns are also a recent technology that allows lanterns to travel on boats and in wet caves and other places where water used to be a problem for the flames or matches. Rechargeable batteries can save you time and money and keep them from ending up in the landfills.

Combination lanterns are also all the rage now. Lanterns with radios or which have mosquito repellent built into them saves the trouble of carrying extra equipment with you when camping or hiking. When everything is located in the lantern, it makes camping a little more fun and a lot easier.

Some of the lanterns have storage space in the bottom in which one can place keys or bandages and aspirin in case of emergencies. These are usually the waterproof style lanterns with the LCD lights and can go on rafts or canoe courses and will keep important things from getting wet or lost incase of a tip over into the waters.

Using the LCD technology is a cleaner way to use a lantern, no longer will you have to carry around lantern fuel and have to worry about it spilling or causing a fire if stored improperly and the fumes are no longer wafting into the air and your lungs with the LCD lanterns. Everything is cleaner and brighter without the flame.

These new lanterns without the firers come in a variety of shapes and sizes to fit your every camping, hiking and boating needs. There are small, thin lanterns for carrying on your backpack so as not to weigh down your pack; there are larger ones that light up an entire campsite and repel black flies and mosquitoes within a large circle around the campfire/site. There are the smaller, personal size lanterns with AM/FM radios inside for when you are camping out in the backyard – mostly used by young children as a sort of night light.