Updated January 13th, 2024
If you love the great outdoors and are looking for a way to remember that love forever, you should get a camping tattoo! There are so many tattoo designs out there – everything from a simple but cute tent outline to a more detailed design such as a full color forest scene!
So find a tattoo artist and get inspired by this giant list of beautiful camping tattoos!
Take me to CAMPING Tattoo Ideas
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P.S. if you see any of these tattoo designs that you are the artist of, feel free to leave a comment so that I can link to your shop/location/socials!

Camping Tattoo Ideas
Pine trees, camp fire flames and a comfy camp chair just have an effect on us outdoor enthusiasts – the feelings those memories bring to mind are something pleasant to be reminded about as often as possible!
What better way than through a tattoo?
If this is your first tattoo, you may want to be on the look out for tiny tattoo ideas. These are low commitment, low pain level, and if you are “blank canvas”, it can be hard to adjust to a larger tattoo. And it’s more painful of course (I have eight myself now!)
All camping tattoo category ideas
Please submit yours (whether you’re the recipient or artist) to [email protected]!

Campfire Tattoos
One of the best camping tattoos if you love spending time around the fire at the end of the night! There are so many unique designs for this one – you’ll have to decide if you want a “realistic” style or a more traditional camping tattoo style.
Personally, I find it hard to find an artist I trust/know enough to do realism, so I LOVE looking for a more artsy/traditional style.












RV and Tent Tattoo Ideas
There’s always that one campsite that you wish you could just remember forever… and a great way to do that is with a tattoo! Capture that feeling forever with these cool camper and tent tattoo themed tattoos!
RVs and Campers








Tent Tattoo Ideas
Tent camping has the ability to take you all kinds of fun places – after all, they are not near as big and cumbersome as RVs and cars.
My family did a wonderful backpacking overnight in the Grand Teton range in 2021, where I was able to snap an absolutely beautiful picture of our tent that looks the same level as the clouds. I hope to get that special place tattooed on myself someday soon (and add it to this list!)







Quirky and FUN – Pets, UFOS, Bigfoot and more!
Though not technically camping related, lots of ideas for supernatural things that may have been *seen* while camping!






Nature Tattoo Ideas
If you love camping, no matter in an RV or a tent, it’s also likely that you are also a nature lover! These nature tattoos feature natural landscapes (prominent mountain ranges, evergreen trees in the design), animals and some pretty awesome full color animal illustrations.
Nature tattoo categories
- General nature
- Compass
- “Not all who wander…”
- Hunting and fishing
- Motherly (Mama Bear + other animals, Gaia, Mother Earth etc)
- Landscapes
- Hunting and fishing
- Animals (wolves, bears deer etc)
Please submit yours to [email protected]!

General Nature






Compass and “Not all who wander…” tattoos






Motherly Nature Based Tattoos (Mama Bear, Gaia etc)



Nature landscape tattoos






Animal Tattoos (Bear, deer, hunting fishing etc)











Have an Awesome Camping-Themed Tattoo?
I would love to add your picture and info (if you’d like to share) to this idea bank! I update this article once a year, and hope to have all kinds of tattoos populating it soon!
ah, getting nature and camping tattoo ideas is not an easy task, but you made it easy. thanks for efforts.