🎒 Casita Spare Tire Utility Backpack

One of My Favorite Campsite Upgrades

Instead of climbing in and out of the Casita or opening the back of my 4Runner every few minutes, I keep the items I use most often right here.

Having everything together saves time, keeps the campsite organized, and makes setup much easier.

What I Keep Inside My Backpack

💧 Two 25-foot drinking water hoses

Your fresh water hose is one of those items you always want within easy reach. You never know when you’ll come across a free water fill station, a campground spigot, or a friend’s house where you can top off your fresh water tank. I simply grab the hose from the backpack and can be filling my tank in less than a minute—without digging through the Casita or unloading the back of my 4Runner. TIP: make sure you keep both ends of the hose screwed together so dirt does not get into the hose.

🪣 Collapsible Bucket 

Folks should be vigilant about making sure their lug nuts remain tight. Keeping this 4-way lug wrench in the backpack makes it easy to grab whenever you stop for gas and quickly check your lug nuts before getting back on the road.

🔧 4-way lug wrench

Folks should be vigilant about making sure their lug nuts remain tight. Keeping this 4-way lug wrench in the backpack makes it easy to grab whenever you stop for gas and quickly check your lug nuts before getting back on the road.

📐 Camco Curved Leveler & Wheel Chock 

You will love these curved leveler wheel chocks. They are easy to set up and use and fit great in the backpack.

💡 Road Ready Tip: If you want to make leveling your Casita even easier, check out the Beech Lane Wireless RV Leveling System. The first thing I do when I pull into a campsite is open the Beech Lane app on my phone. As I’m backing into my campsite, the app shows me when my Casita is perfectly level. Sometimes I can stop in just the right position and don’t need my curved levelers at all.

💡 Road Ready Tip: Sometimes Leveling Blocks Work Better: I also carry Tri-Lynx Lynx Leveling Blocks because not every campsite is the same. While my curved levelers are usually the first thing I reach for, there are times when leveling blocks are simply the better tool. If I need additional height, want to support my tongue jack, stabilize a wheel, or deal with an unusually uneven campsite, the Lynx blocks give me the flexibility that curved levelers alone can’t provide.

For me, the two systems complement each other rather than compete with each other

A Few Other Things I Keep Handy

These are just a few of the items I find especially convenient to access from outside. I also carry several smaller essentials in the backpack, including tent stakes, rope, extra wheel chocks, and other campsite odds and ends.

The exact contents may change from trip to trip, but the goal stays the same: keep the gear I use most often organized and within easy reach.