10 Best Camping Tables in 2018

Lifetime 4428 is a fairly large folding table intended for social gatherings at the seashore or in the campground. (Although it’s not something you’re going to want to schlep up the mountain.) It’s durable, opens up to a comfortable height, will hold a fair amount of food and folds down pretty small. Maybe the best thing about this table is that it has a slew of other applications as well. Use it to augment your kitchen setup during big holiday get togethers. Use it to display items during a yard sale or put it to work as a craft table.

Although the Coleman marketing team could afford to do a little work on the name of this camping table (maybe use about a dozen fewer numbers) it nonetheless earns a spot on our list of the best. Primarily because it sports one thing even some of its fellow ‘best of’ list mates can’t claim: stability. Coleman 2000020279 is probably the most stable camping table out there for its size. And even though the legs are a tad spindly you won’t have to worry about things tipping over even when you place heavy items near the edge.

There’s a lot to like about the Moon Lence Portable Camping Table. Start with the built in drink holders and then check down the list. Waterproof construction? Check. Folds down nice and small? Check. Lightweight design you can take anywhere? Check. Sets up in seconds? Check. The Moon Lence has just about everything any reasonable person would want to see in a camping stove with the possible exception of a hard surface to place your heavier items on.

The ALPS Mountaineering Eclipse Table unfolds fast and provides a decent sized platform for your camp food. The table surface is a 27” square and below that there’s ample room for storing drinks. Having the drink holders underneath the main table surface has the benefit of aiding in stability by lowering the table’s center of gravity. Besides that you can adjust the tautness of the cloth table top and there’s a side organizer pocket for recipes, cell phones and the like. Makes a great card table for those summer evenings in the tent.

The Outsunny Portable Folding Picnic Table is a great way to bring the picnic table with you wherever you go. There are plenty of campsites out there that don’t have picnic tables or anywhere else to sit so having the Outsunny Folding Picnic Table with you at all times is a perfect way to ensure you’re never left eating off the ground or out of your car. Unlike a lot of camping tables sitting right up against the table top is no problem with the Outsunny and when they claim it will seat 4 you can believe it will seat 4.

The Trekology Portable Camping Table with Aluminum Top is a made-for-one table that sets up in less than a minute and provides you a nice hard, stable surface to put your camp food, drinks, camping lantern, cell phone or myriad other things on. It’s not intended to be the table your group eats off of. It’s intended to be set up in front of your camping chair to hold whatever it is you don’t necessarily want to set on the ground. This Trekology camping table is actually small and lightweight enough that even those on a trek deep into the wilderness can consider taking it along. 

The GCI Outdoor Compact Folding Camping Table looks a lot (when open) like those folding pine tables you get at Crate and Barrel or a hundred other stores. The difference is that its frame and top are fabricated from aluminum rather than pine so it will stand up to the demands of the outdoors. If you’re a fan of campsite hopping during the warm weather you’d do well to have a couple of these in the trunk or the RV. They’re the kind of simple accessory that can turn an awkward camping experience into a comfortable, totally enjoyable one.

This is a nifty camp table that sets up in under a minute and has 2 things many other camp tables don’t: stability and leg room underneath. Leg room (or lack thereof) is one of the unspoken issues where camp tables are concerned with many telescoping designs negating the ability to pull your chair in close. This Beckworth table is one of the few exceptions. But beyond that this SmartFlip has other things going for it as well, including the attractive bamboo table surface and the ability to lengthen or shorten the legs to your needs. When you shorten up the legs a bit you have one of the most stable camping tables out there.

Here’s another camping table that does legroom right. While it’s not the aesthetic equal of the Beckworth it is every bit the functional equal. Setup is a bit more complex than that of the Beckworth but when the REDCAMP Folding Table is open you have a large, strong surface for food, your laptop, your card game or tailgate party. Like the Beckworth this REDCAMP table is also delightfully stable and, as we mentioned, accommodates the fact that people have legs. It’s also about ½ the price of the Beckworth.

This Moon Lence Portable Picnic Table comes in black or blue and features a telescoping design that unfolds in under 10 seconds. It has a tough but attractive aluminum table surface that’s great for your camp food, magazines, LED camping light, tasty beverage and much more. It’s another camping table that isn’t really designed for people to sit at, like you do a kitchen or dining room table. It’s intended to be pulled up next to your camping chair and hold whatever you need held.