Where to Buy Propane?

Marceline

Cbusguy said:

@rfuss928 now that makes much more sense.   So it isn't a pressure gage but a float or volume gage,   makes sense.    

Costco sells tanks with the built-in float gauge every spring for less than the price of just about any gauge.

Sharon_is_SAM

We carried a second propane tank sitting in a well secured milk crate at the front of the CS.  This was in the winter when running out of propane in the middle of the night mattered.  Summer camping, even at elevation, I would probably not bother to take a second tank.  

Tabster

Another vote forTractor supply. I have a couple of the Costco tanks with built in gauge. Love them. One less thing to think about

lkc001

I prefer, if at all possible, to take my tank somewhere to refill.  Some of those pre-filled tanks you exchange at places like Walmart are beat up or rusty looking & some places that refill are picky about what they are refilling.   I have heard of people being refused a refill on a beat up Walmart tank.  I want to keep my own nice tank that I know does not have any valve problems.

Bayliss

@dCliffhanger, I missed seeing your July 23rd post.  I keep my extra propane tank (when I take it along) securely stored and strapped inside the bed of my pickup.  I actually carry it primarily for use with our large three-burner camp stove when we are dry camping for a couple weeks.  (My wife cooks me a great! breakfast every morning.  Gotta love her!!)  Since you can find places to refill your tank within close distance of most campgrounds (if not at the campground itself, if privately owned), you really don't need to carry an extra tank.  One less thing to worry about.

dCliffhanger

Bayliss said:

@dCliffhanger, I missed seeing your July 23rd post.  I keep my extra propane tank (when I take it along) securely stored and strapped inside the bed of my pickup.  I actually carry it primarily for use with our large three-burner camp stove when we are dry camping for a couple weeks.  (My wife cooks me a great! breakfast every morning.  Gotta love her!!)  Since you can find places to refill your tank within close distance of most campgrounds (if not at the campground itself, if privately owned), you really don't need to carry an extra tank.  One less thing to worry about.

Thanks I've seen some ideas shared here since. It's my intent, as much as possible, to be off grid as much as I can and probably at higher, cooler elevations where keeping the Alde fed will be more important. That could make an LP run hours long over sometimes rugged roads. I'll always be able to break out my backpacking stove in a pinch for cooking. I've not really heard a consensus but I'm thinking storing an LP tank inside and unventilated might be ill-advised.