Over the past few years, we've seen some of the weight/bulk-cutting passion usually reserved for backpacking make its way over to car camping, particularly in the design of lighter, sleeker stoves ...

Backpackers have long relied on small, foldable camp stoves to heat water or food far from a trailhead. A new entry this year, the Optimus Vega, does not reinvent the wheel in this category as much ...

Golden Valley-based Katadyn North America, Inc., and the U.S. and Canadian governments have warned consumers to stop using the company's camping stoves and equipment due to possible fire hazard.

Editor's Note: Katadyn Group has updated its product line, and the Optimus Hiker+ Camp Stove reviewed here is no longer available. Details on similar stoves from the ...