# Tampa Florida - Where To Rent Camping Gear?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tampa-florida-where-to-rent-camping-gear/485651>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 13, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tampa-florida-where-to-rent-camping-gear/485651 "2009-02-13T04:02:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tampa-florida-where-to-rent-camping-gear/485651/1 "2009-02-13T04:02:03Z")

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Howdy,

I’m going camping in Cayo Costa state park for one night in mid-March. Is there anywhere in the Tampa area where I can rent a tent and a couple of sleeping bags?

I live in Montana so I have camping gear. I’m could ship my gear but I hate to do that for one night.

Thanks

whistlepig

Who did many Googles and just found people who wanted to rent me party tents.

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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tampa-florida-where-to-rent-camping-gear/485651/2 "2009-02-13T04:29:55Z")

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I don’t know if they rent sleeping bags and they’re not quite in Tampa but there’s [Bill Jackson’s](http://www.billjacksons.com/).

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tampa-florida-where-to-rent-camping-gear/485651/3 "2009-02-13T05:16:20Z")

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That park is near Ft Myers. I’d check the Bill Jackson’s site linked, stop by Bill Jackson’s on your way south. That’s a long way to go for one night, though. What’s the deal?

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**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tampa-florida-where-to-rent-camping-gear/485651/4 "2009-02-13T05:40:47Z")

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> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> That park is near Ft Myers. I’d check the Bill Jackson’s site linked, stop by Bill Jackson’s on your way south. That’s a long way to go for one night, though. What’s the deal?

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The deal is to camp out under the stars, be outside wearing shorts, cook supper outside, watch the sunset, kayak in the ocean, swim . . .

All the things that are hard to do without long underwear in Montana in March.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tampa-florida-where-to-rent-camping-gear/485651/5 "2009-02-13T14:37:59Z")

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I get that. Why just one day? Are you going to be here longer and only camping for one day? Ft Myers is a good 2 hours south from Tampa.

We slept with the windows open last night, the weather is really nice right now. Unfortunately I just found out I have to pop off to Germany for the next several weeks.

Good luck on your trip.