Like many other camping accessories, the best folding camper tables serve a variety of purposes. Aside from the obvious benefit of showcasing and serving the food, these hard-wearing tables double-up as a work top, sometimes with built-in storage, enabling you to store cooking utensils, as well as crush, chop, and mix your ingredients. The metal grate on the bottom level served us well holding the dish bin and keeping our soft cooler full of meats and veggies handy, and held up well despite several bumps from curious dog noses. A sturdy table is an essential component of camping life, but unfortunately they don’t receive the focus they should compared to other camping ‘must-haves’ such as tents or awnings. Adjustable legs are extremely useful – preferably all four should be independently extendable to help level the table on undulating ground. While the sturdy plastic hard top is great for meal prep and cleaning, it didn’t give us the ability to cook on top of the space with a grill or stove.

Setting the Outwell Kamloops up is easy – simply unfold the table top so that it is upside down, with the underside facing upwards. So, go on; browse our range of folding camper tables. At Leisureshopdirect, you'll find a variety of folding camping tables with all the space and features to suit your entire camping squad. From spacious picnic tables with matching benches to virtually weightless foldaways, you'll find a table here that caters to your needs - in every sense of the word.

The Atepa Folding Bamboo Table is a wooden-topped offering in our roundup and an absolute peach of a design. Adjustable height tables make a significant difference between cooking (where you’re generally standing) and eating (where you’re generally sitting). Some of our options, like the Nemo Moonlander, also give you options for picnic table height or using chairs like a Crazy Creek, where you are much lower to the ground than a traditional table. What we liked: Picnic table height and side-table height options, twist-in legs for stability, carrying case, high-quality materials, simple setup

Let’s start with the legs – these are the best legs in the business! OK, I’m not talking about Miss World here, but you can see why the Victorians used to have to cover their table legs to avoid the menfolk getting too amorous! The legs on the Nestling are independently adjustable for height which means you can level the table on any surface. Extremely useful indeed! The camping table is fast and easy to set up – music to the ears of any camper! With practise, it can be dry up and ready in under a minute. Simply fold the frame out, roll the slatted top over the top of the frame, and clip the side panels on to secure the slatted top in place. The aluminum countertop withstood a camp stove easily, although we would have liked the side tables to be made of the same material at times. (Juggling several hot pans and pots when cooking for 6+ people would have been easier with a place to put the pans that wasn’t plastic.) However, when taking on an ambitious meal like steak and risotto or biscuits and gravy for 6 folks, the four plastic side tables were nothing short of miraculously helpful.Forcamping and caravanning,a roll-top slatted table is an ideal blend of portability and stability - the aluminium slats are corded together so that they roll up for storage. When erecting the table the slats sit into the frame and are usually supported by a securing rod holding them firmly in place, giving a perfectly stable, flat surface for eating and drinking without spills. Available in a range of sizes.

The table has a pre-connected slatted aluminium top. Simply roll the top out onto the frame, then secure it into place using the sliding frame supports for optimal strength and stability. We should emphasize the beauty of the Japanese bamboo used for the tabletop. It is sublime and exceptionally smooth but with a lovely grain. You can mentally picture the bamboo shoots swaying in the Japanese breeze! Our first ‘luxury’ choice is the Outwell Kamloops which is a gorgeous camping table which uses premium, sustainable bamboo wood as the folding top section. This is a big table and can seat four with ease, and potentially up to six people.Often in the world of camping, it’s the simplest ideas which are best. Nothing could be simpler than this bamboo spike table from Zempire and yet it elegantly solves a perennial problem of camping. How to conveniently secure wine glasses near to your camping chair without spilling the wine. Arguably one of the most important points when shopping for a camping table is your budget. You might be very budget conscious and cautious about spending money on a camping “accessory,” or you might be willing to spend a little extra if it means you won’t be replacing your table in the next 10 years of use. Whatever your budget, we made sure to find durable options for every price range. Do you want a dining table or a cooking station — or a multi-functional table? It uses a folding bamboo table top which is 90cm in diameter when set up. Underneath are four legs which are height-adjustable to three different settings – 40cm, 58cm and 70cm. This is excellent flexibility. There is also individual height adjustment possible using the endcap screw for uneven ground. Bamboo wood is fairly unique in that it has the look of tree wood but is made from grass. As such it does not warp or shrink when the humidity of the surroundings changes. We were a little concerned about just having three fairly flimsy-looking legs to support the table but found that it is extremely stable in use.

Underneath the tabletop a useful net can be suspended (included in the bag) which adds a second layer of storage for say laptops or magazines. This certainly improves the functionality and flexibility of the Nestling versus some of the other similar-sized tables. This table is absolutely perfect for setting up inside your awning or close to your cooking area, because within that briefcase-like exterior, there exists a couple of sizeable fabric cupboards having individual zippable front-loading bays. These cupboards are capacious, and perfect for storing food, drink or even bedding if so required. The table top surface Below are a couple of different types of table which we're particularly loving at the minute: Folding Camping TablesMore people, larger table! If you’re looking to host a multi-family affair or want ample space for your good friends, we would recommend camping tables like the Lifetime Folding Table, the REI Camp Prep Table, or even the ALPS Mountaineering Dining Table in XL.