BOURGEOIS
Camping became so popular in the 1950s and 60s that it became an extension of the suburban dream—and awfully crowded.
Phoebe S.K. Young is an associate professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of From Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement and California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place.