Outdoors

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• 5/7/2023
  

  The First Campgrounds Took the City to the Wilderness

  by Martin Hogue

  The growing popularity of the Model T put wilderness excursions within reach of ordinary city dwellers, bringing trash, fire, and pollution with them. The solution, mass campgrounds, made camping more accessible at the cost of rendering the experience more orderly, rule-bound, and urban.