Should I take extra pegs Camping?

Most manufacturers will provide pegs that are designed to match up to the suggested use of the tent. So some smaller tents will come with lighter, plastic pegs, and some of the larger family tents will come with more heavy duty metal tent pegs.

Some companies also try and make the whole tent pitching experience easier and color code their pegs, for example, Outwell have their easy pegging system in which they use grey anchor steel pegs at the tent’s four corners, luminous pegs to compliment the luminous guylines (which are on the most trip uppable areas!) and black plastic pegs for general pegging.

Depending on what type of ground you’re pitching your tent on, and how much rain we’ve had recently, you could go from one extreme of pushing your pegs easily in by hand into the soggy ground, to frantically hammering seemingly immovable pegs into what seems like solid granite!

It’s the latter scenario in which we end up surrounded by bent steel tent pegs and shattered platic pegs. We’ve all been there! In order to lower the blood pressure in these situations, and to save having to work out which parts of the tent will be ok without a peg ( because there isn’t a good part to leave unpegged, the wind and rain will find it!),  it’s always handy to take a spare set!

For softer ground, plastic pegs are good as they can be pushed in by hand if you’ve forgotton (or broken in frustration) your camping mallet. Metal tent pegs handle hard and rocky ground better. For extremely hard ground and campsites where you’ll be pitching your tent or awning on hard standing we recommend you use heavy duty Pile Driver pegs to get the job done with a minimum of stress and effort! You can even get pegs that screw into the ground.

If you’ve ever been to a music festival, you’ll unfortunately more than likely be familiar with people tripping over your guylines and ripping your tent pegs out, and in some cases falling onto your tent! Depending on how far into the festival spirit your fellow festival goer finds themselves, in some cases no amount of luminous gear will prevent this from happening.

To help keep mishap as far at bay as possible however, and to assist your fellow festival goers in navigating the narrow path between yours and your neighbours tent we certainly recommend taking some some luminous guylines and luminous guy runners to add to your tent if they’re not already included!

In short,  the pegs which come with your tent should be fine, and don’t necessarily need replacing, but whichever type you plump for, it’s always worth taking some spare pegs with you on your camping trip!

Check our Mallets, Guys and Tent Pegs section of the website for more details on what’s available.

You can now even get pegs with led’s in, click on the pic below for details…. happy pegging campers!