Although it doesn’t collapse in two directions like a camp chair, it folds nearly flat and weighs a scant four pounds, much less than the other lawn chairs in our test fleet. This extra-wide web chair is designed for your ultimate comfort and is perfect for barbeques, picnics, and days spent at the beach. The classic woven webbed chair is constructed with a lightweight yet sturdy aluminum frame and features a steel support bar and steel rivets—so you can be confident that it will hold up for years of enjoyment. Best of all, the chair folds up for easy storage and transport, so you’ll always have the best seat in the house. Many camp chair manufacturers provide a “weight capacity,” which can helpful in a number of ways. At the high end of the spectrum, the burly Alps Mountaineering King Kong has a very healthy 800-pound maximum, while the lightweight Helinox Chair Zero is listed at just 265 pounds.
While it seems gimmicky at first, the canopy is actually pretty nice, especially as the day heats up and shade becomes increasingly necessary. The shade is also adjustable, making both blocking the sun and getting in and out of the chair without ducking easy. It doesn’t get any more All-American than a classic web-strapped folding chair—unless that webbing is red, white, and blue.
Like the brand’s hammocks, the Lounger practically cradles you on all sides, with an aluminum frame that suspends the nylon seat. And unlike the similarly shaped Helinox Sunset above, the ENO includes a cup holder, two cargo pockets, and even a pillow for cushioning your head as you recline. The powder-coated aluminum frame makes the chairs very sturdy and durable. The garden chairs have a soft-to-the-touch, weather-resistant textilene top and can be adjusted into 7 positions, so you can always find the most comfortable seating position. Thanks to their lightweight construction, the chairs can be easily moved around. Our favorite low-profile lawn chair, which doubles as a beach chair, is the ITA Leisure Chair.
For a wide selection of lawn chairs and camping chairs, start by shopping the selection at SCHEELS. Upgrade comfort and convenience with a lawn chair or camping chair from SCHEELS. We carry traditional lawn chairs that are lightweight, fold up, and store in a carrying bag for maximum convenience. These bag chairs are also a great choice for busy sports parents who are always looking for a comfortable alternative to bleachers. The Kijaro Dual Lock Folding Chair is a classic folding sports chair without any of the slouchy slack you’ve come to expect from camping chairs.
Below, we discuss how each affects the overall performance of a quality lawn chair, and which models stood out as top performers in each area. On the downside, we wish that the drink tray was part of the chair, patio furniture sets as when carting it around, it was easy for us to forget the tray in the car. We also would prefer that the powder-coated metal was a lighter color, because the black color gets super hot in the sun.
This is further exacerbated by the strict ninety-degree angle of the chair, which doesn’t allow the user to recline at all without pushing their legs into the pistons. While we appreciate GCI trying new things in the camp chair world, we wouldn’t really recommend this chair. Fredric Arnold might not be a name that rings a bell for most Southerners, yet you would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t recognize the inventor’s most memorable creation. It was 1956 when Arnold first patented his aluminum folding seat—aka the lawn chair—and it didn’t take long for its appeal to grow. If you meandered down any suburban side street in the early sixties, you’d find a couple clinking cocktail glasses on their front lawn, perched in Arnold originals. (In its prime, his company churned out around 14,000 of them a day.) It wasn’t until the casual-furniture market usurped the practical but not plush folding seat that these picnic staples got relegated to the garage.