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• Choose to sleep in one of the 12 wooden shelters along the trail, or pitch a tent the old-fashioned way.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 2 Aug. 2022
• When the weather was nice, the two women would pitch a tent and sleep outdoors.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
• Few winter campers simply pitch a tent then stay in it.
  — Gary Garth, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2020
• In recent months, some had built crude camps to serve the migrants, charging them to pitch a tent or buy food.
  — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Yes, the Scouts taught skills and virtues to many boys: how to be thrifty, brave, clean and reverent; how not to pitch a tent at the bottom of a hill.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2023
• The roof's static load capacity is 750 pounds — enough for you and a friend to pitch a tent on it and camp overnight.
  — Larry Printz, Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
• For those who like to pitch a tent, primitive sites are available.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2021
• Autumn in Northeast Ohio remains the ideal time to pitch a tent.
  — cleveland, 28 Aug. 2020
• Starting from Buckhorn Campground (which is a great spot to pitch a tent among the trees), the path parallels a quaint stream.
  — Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
• That would alienate even more people who can’t afford to pay $50 a night to pitch a tent on public lands.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2022
• Look for shells and sea snails, get hypnotized by the powerful Atlantic waves, or pitch a tent right on the sand.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
• Texas offers great beaches, lovable small towns, and lots of great outdoor spaces in which to pitch a tent under the stars.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2023
• They were not allowed to pitch a tent with the other Mormons near the old Mexican plaza in the hamlet of Yerba Buena.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2021
• Mayor Erin Mendenhall is against creating a permanent place to camp RVs or to pitch a tent.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
• As part of the sponsorship, staff from REI were also on hand to teach two sessions: one about how to pitch a tent and another about how to safely start a fire.
  — Shauna Stuart | [e-mail], al, 23 Sep. 2022
• The compound will have 36 lodging units between its cabins, cottages and tipis, and for the more outdoorsy, 32 campsites where guests can pitch a tent.
  — Chris Burton, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2021
• These are a relatively new tent design and can be challenging to set up correctly, let alone find the perfect place to pitch the tent.
  — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
• Many return as mentors, showing others how to pitch a tent, build a campfire and explain there’s no profanity or use of the N-word.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
• But for the majority of campers—those who go car camping or pitch a tent on ground with facilities nearby—some luxuries of home are nice to have.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2022
• When parked, the real woodsy people can pitch a tent on the roof deck next to a 2.0-kilowatt solar array—assuming the two queen beds and double bunks within the bus are already occupied.
  — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 30 Apr. 2022
• Visitors can pull up and stay in their own RV, or when seasonally appropriate, pitch a tent.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2020
• For many travelers, camping is one of those experiences that sounds better in theory, but when the cover of night comes, not everyone wants to pitch a tent, stoke a fire, and be on bear watch.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2023
• For sunset seekers, dark sky aficionados, and early risers, though, there’s no better place to pitch a tent (and avoid those afternoon mobs) than tucked among the brilliant rock formations inside the park.
  — Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Feb. 2023
• There are plenty of places to pitch a tent or park an RV in Wisconsin, from kid-friendly campgrounds with inflatable obstacle courses to remote campsites far from signs of civilization.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2022
• Camping is prohibited in Moab, so the agency encourages people to pitch a tent on Bureau of Land Management property rather than within city limits.
  — Taylor Stevens, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 July 2021

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024