Hogue teaches landscape architecture and looks at camping the way an architect looks at a building — as a designed system nobody notices. The campsite with its numbered post, fire ring, picnic table, and parking spur is an invention with a history, and he traces it through patents, catalogs, park service manuals, and old photographs. The tent, the sleeping bag, the camp stove, the reservation system, the loop road: All of it engineered, standardized, and sold. It’s a visual book, dense with archival material, and it will permanently change how a Forest Service campground looks to you.
Making Camp