Quote Originally Posted by soprano View Post
Every campground I've ever been to has had either charcoal grills or firepits with grates for grilling. All you need to pack is charcoal, lighter fluid and a match. Incidentally, you can put a regular kitchen griddle or cast iron skillet over any campfire; the fuel source is irrelevant.
We routinely cook our dinner over our wood campfire this way. Downside is that the cast iron skillet gets coated with a fine layer of ash that is PITA to clean -- it just gets everywhere, but hey, we're camping, so it's not that much of a worry. Also if you heat water for tea/coffee this way it tends to get infused with a lovely smoky flavor.

Another nice thing about the camp stoves is that we can get breakfast going a lot cleaner and faster in the morning without getting the campfire going again. It means less wood to haul to the campsite, and a morning campfire feels a bit extravagant since we usually don't linger around our campsite once we've finished breakfast.