Sure, they’re not as comfy as your plush mattress is, but cots serve a particular purpose — providing extra sleeping space on an occasional basis. Cots tend to be more supportive than air mattresses ...

Let’s talk about some obvious advantages of not sleeping on the ground. I don’t care how thick your pad is—if there’s a rock under you, you’re going to feel it. A cot gives you a perfectly flat, even, ...

I remember my first sleeping pad clearly. It was a blue roll of quarter-inch thick closed-cell foam that I proudly unrolled inside my Eureka A-frame, before climbing into an old green mummy bag that ...