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To seek the significance and essence of the value of camping as a family leisure activity, this study made an analysis based on the phenomenological research method aiming at describing lives experienced by the research participants as well as the essence of their respective internal experience. As for research participants, 8 people were selected based on the purposive sampling method, and the data was collected through in-depth interviews, participant observation, research note (researcher’s reflective journal) and literature review. The research results drawn through such research methods can be summarized as follows: Firstly, as for educational values, they turned out to be a gift of nature: a playground in nature, “comfort” of our everyday life learned through “inconvenience,” ”happiness” getting bigger by sharing: cultivation of sociality. Secondly, “the values” of camping shared with family members turned out to be camping site = family debate place, “role” definition: being a cook at the camping site, paradise = escape from the daily routine. Considering such results, it is required to make a political effort to develop and support eco-friendly family leisure activity programs such as a camping activity in which all family members can participate.