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campground

[kamp-ground] / ˈkæmpˌgraʊnd /


NOUN
encampment
Synonyms


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Several people are missing after a landslide buried part of a popular campground in New Zealand, with rescuers planning to search through the night in hopes of finding survivors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The deaths were reported at Welcome Bay, while rescue workers are still searching through rubble at a different site in a popular campground on Mount Maunganui.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

Large piles of ripped-out invasive plants dotted the campground; the sunlight finally hit the memorial’s foundation, which the adults there noted they hadn’t seen in decades.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Copen fondly remembers a weekend before the fire, when his group spent the entire time at a fairly isolated campground on site.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

She stares out at the same trees and the same jigsaw piece of sky of the KOA campground in Hayward, Minnesota.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti