Walmart has a camping chair to fit every personality! These Ozark Trail camp chairs are perfect for taking with you to kids’ sports games, camping trips, firework displays, or simply having them around so you can lounge in your backyard. Our not-too-discriminating underage testers liked all the kids’ chairs, though over time we found several reasons to declare the REI Camp Chair the best of the bunch. The REI chair’s polyester seat material feels both more forgiving and more durable than the thinner material on the Ozark Trail Kids’ Folding Camp Chair from Walmart. The box-shaped cupholder is a little roomier than the round cupholders on the Coleman and the L.L.Bean Base Camp chairs—better for stubby water bottles or mugs of hot chocolate around the campfire. We found that the cheaply constructed Walmart chair had a cupholder that was too small for a soda can, or any of the hard-plastic or metal water bottles that the kids we know brought on a camping trip.
The Ozark Trail XXL Director Chair is a reasonably comfortable, versatile camp chair, offered by a reliable company. Recommended for anyone up to 500 pounds who is looking for a basic camp chair. You also have armrests with two integrated cup holders. The armrests are soft and this makes the chair quite unique. Capacity XXL Director chair is a bit on the heavy side, it lacks any kind of built-in storage, and it’s only offered in two (bright) colors. If you’re looking for something a bit more subdued, that might be a little off-putting to you.
Nothing about the XXL Director chair by Ozark Trail is adjustable. Also, it is marginally above average, where camp chairs are concerned as far as comfort goes. The seatback has some slightly padded sections that do at least a little something to enhance comfort, and the armrests are nominally ozark trail canopy padded too. But, this isn’t the kind of chair you’re going to want to spend most of the day in. Simply put, it can be notoriously difficult to find furniture that’s big and robust enough to support you properly. That’s as true for camp chairs as it is for recliners and the like.
Now, my rating is quite different but this is because I use several different criteria and I apply them to all chairs presented in the site. The idea is that you compare the rating of different chairs, rather than focusing on the absolute values of the rates. The chair is very stable with its X-shaped supports bars which pivot when you fold the chair, you see them in the picture below. This is a strong corrosion-resistant steel construction. The mentioned two pins which you pull out and release the rocking rails to fold the chair are visible in the picture.
With this chair’s quad-folding design, it doesn’t take up much space when folded and comes with a matching polyester carry bag for easy transportation. When you need comfortable and reliable ozark trail screen house seating, choose the Ozark Trail basic quad folding outdoor camp chair. This convenient foldable camping chair collapses for easy storage and transportation and has one cup holder.
The Chair One is rated to hold up to 320 pounds, versus 250 pounds for the Flexlite and for the third chair we tested, the Alite Monarch Chair (the latter chair is no longer available, as Alite went out of business in late 2019). The Renetto chair usually comes in between 8 and 10 colors and is rated to hold up to 350 pounds. After six months of sitting mostly outside in the Southern California sun, our gray Coleman chair was noticeably less faded than our Walmart and Renetto chairs, the latter of which had bleached from bright red to pink. Portable outdoor chairs are also helpful for anyone who doesn’t have the room or budget for permanent backyard furniture.
Made from an easy-to-clean polyester fabric and metal frame. We also let two boys, ages 1 and 5, play with them and sit on them in the backyard for six months. After all that, we concluded that the REI Co-op Camp Chair – Kids’ is the best choice for anyone who wants to buy a practical, portable outdoor chair for a small child. The Helinox Chair One weighs about 2 pounds, compresses smaller than a 2-liter bottle of soda, and is the most comfortable and easy to stow of the three top backpacking chairs we tested.