Remember when a trusty Coleman lantern was the absolute best way to light up your campsite? Introduced in 1914, those kerosene-burning lamps were a mainstay with outdoor enthusiasts for decades. But nowadays there are tons of slick, new gadgets (for example: SUNJACK CAMPLIGHT ) for outdoor illumination.
Here are the ones you'll want for your next camping excursion.
Black Diamond Apollo
f you're looking for a bit more illumination in a still-portable package, you can step up to Black Diamond's Apollo lantern (a favorite of Outdoor Gear Lab) with a full 200 lumens of power. It has a collapsible design with fold-out legs to give it some added height for better light dispersion. However, unlike the Voyager, it doesn't double as a flashlight. You'll also take a slight hit in runtime, with a promised 90 hours of use from four AA batteries instead of 100.
Black Diamond Voyager
Black Diamond's range of camp lights are pretty well-rated across the board, but Outside especially liked the Voyager for its balance of weight and power. The latest model packs a combination of 140-lumen lantern up top and a 50-lumen flashlight in the base, with the required four AA batteries promising 100 hours of use.
Coleman North Star
As good as battery-powered LED lanterns have gotten, there's still times when nothing but an old-fashioned fuel lantern will do. If you're really looking to light up a campsite, Coleman's North Star will give you a massive 1540 lumens of brightness on the highest setting, which will last for over four hours with a single 16.4 oz. propane tank (the low setting will stretch things to over nine hours). A simple push-button ignition means you also don't have to worry about matches.
Coleman Quad LED Lantern
There's few names more associated with camping than Coleman, and it has no shortage of camp lanterns for you to consider. One of the most unique is the company's Quad LED Lantern, which consists of four flat LED panels than can be detached from the base and used on their own as needed. The individual panels have each built-in rechargeable batteries, but you'll need eight big D-cells for the base.
