The Camp Chair Cup HolderBy Steadi Labs

—A base for the lid, not a sleeve for the chair

On an 800-pound chair, the cup holder is the only part that is not reinforced.

That is OutdoorGearLab’s tested review of the ALPS Mountaineering King Kong, in their words: the cup holders “are made of just mesh — the only part of the chair that isn’t thick and reinforced.” Everything else on that chair is rated to eight hundred pounds.

This does not go in the mesh pocket, and it will not fix your chair. It is a 5.2-inch base for the cooler lid, the tailgate, the camp table and a flat chair arm — the hard surfaces already at the fire ring.

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A bottle standing in a terracotta Steadi on a table outdoors on grass, a grill and fence behind.
Outside, on something hard and level. Twelve colours in all.

—Read this before you buy, including the part that costs us the sale

A wide-mouth Nalgene does not fit this either.

Nalgene publishes the 32 oz Wide Mouth at 3.5 inches across. Our fins flex to 3.15. So the iconic outdoor bottle is an honest no here, exactly as it is an honest no in your chair — OutdoorGearLab found the King Kong’s holders “won’t hold a standard Nalgene, large coffee thermos, or” a wide phone. If a Nalgene is what you drink from at camp, close the tab; neither product solves it.

Wide-mouth Nalgene

No

3.5″, too wide

Nalgene’s own published figure: 3.5 inches (89 mm). Past what six fins can flex to. Not us, and not the chair.

The chair pocket

~20 oz

tested ceiling

Reviewers testing an Amazon Basics chair found the armrest holder fits “up to an average shape 20-ounce tumbler but isn’t large enough” for most 1 litre bottles. A Kijaro’s larger holder tops out the same way.

Your 40 oz Stanley

3.1″

designed for a car

Stanley publishes it as “Car cup holder compatible (base diameter: 3.1 inches)”. Never chair-compatible. It seats here, snug, because 3.1 is inside what the fins take.

So: hard surfaces

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something level

Cans, bottles and tumblers up to 3.15 inches at the base, standing on a cooler lid, a tailgate or a camp table. Not in the chair.

Sources: nalgene.com · stanley1913.com · outdoorgearlab.com (tested reviews of the ALPS Mountaineering King Kong, Amazon Basics Portable Camping Chair and Kijaro Dual Lock) · cleverhiker.com. Fetched 3 September 2026 and quoted as published.

—What nobody in this category will tell you

Not one chair maker publishes a cup-holder diameter.

  • YETI sells a $300 chair and answers the question qualitatively

    Their own FAQ: “Yes. The Trailhead® Chair’s cupholder fits most drink vessels.” No diameter, no vessel size. And they sell a separate $20 chair cup holder on top of it.

  • Coleman calls its holder “oversized” and publishes nothing

    “Oversized, insulated cup holder keeps your drink close at hand.” The spec table for that chair contains no cup-holder dimension at all.

  • Big Agnes sells a $319.95 chair on “two built-in cup holders”

    Also with no published diameter. Kelty markets “insulated bevvie holders” on a $79.95 chair, again with no figure anywhere on the product record.

  • And the fabric ones sag

    CleverHiker, on the GCI Freestyle Rocker: “the fabric cup holder doesn’t hold heavy drinks well.” That is the whole category’s failure mode in one sentence, from somebody who tested it.

yeti.com · campingworld.com (Coleman Big-N-Tall Quad Chair listing) · bigagnes.com · kelty.com · cleverhiker.com. Fetched 3 September 2026, quoted as published. Steadi Labs is not affiliated with any of them.

A hand sliding an aluminium can down into the fins of a Steadi.
The fins take the bottom inch. Nothing has to swallow the bottle.

—Does it actually work

It wobbles. Then it settles.

Somebody drops the cooler lid, or knocks the table getting out of a chair, and the drink comes back level. The base is 5.2 inches across and spreads the load rather than balancing on a point.

Filmed on a couch cushion — softer and less predictable than a cooler lid, which is the easiest surface it has.

A full can standing in a white Steadi on a cushion.
Real footage, one take, no cuts.

—How it holds

Width, and nothing else.

The base

5.2 inches across and fixed — wider than any chair pocket, because it is not trying to fit inside anything.

The fins

Six of them, holding the bottom inch. A pocket has to swallow the widest part of a bottle; these only have to take the narrowest.

Nothing sags

It is one moulded piece of Shore 85A TPU. There is no fabric to stretch, no elastic to go slack and no seam to give.

A macro photograph of the flared base of a terracotta Steadi, showing the moulded STEADI mark.
The flare, close. That width is the entire mechanism.

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—The object

One piece of rubber. No fabric anywhere.

No mesh, no elastic, no clip, no chair-specific bracket. It goes in the same bag as the chairs and it does not care which chair you own, because it never touches it.

  • Base5.2″ — fixed
  • Height2.8″
  • Opening at rest1.64″
  • Weightabout 3.6 oz
  • Fins6, from 0.92″ up, flexing to 3.15″
  • MaterialShore 85A TPU
  • FabricNone — nothing to sag
  • Goes in a chair pocketNo
  • CleaningRinse, wipe, or dishwasher
Several sizes of can standing in Steadis side by side, from a slim can to a tallboy.
Slim can to tallboy. Bases between two and three inches all seat.

—What seats and what does not

Up to 3.15 inches at the base. The Nalgene is 3.5, and that is a no.

A standard 12 oz can is 2.6 inches across the bottom and settles straight in. A 40 oz Stanley Quencher is 3.1 — Stanley’s own published figure — and seats snug. A 32 oz wide-mouth Nalgene is 3.5 and does not seat at all. A handled enamel mug does not seat either; the handle lands exactly where the fins grip.

Search by container

Every width below comes from a published specification, not from us. Where a spec is uncertain, the answer says so.

Or the width across the bottom

A width across the bottom of the bottle, in inches.

Without a tape measure

A standard sticky note is three inches square. A bottle standing on one with its base inside the paper will seat. A wide-mouth Nalgene overhangs it, which is the quickest way to see the problem.

Anything borderline — hello@steadilabs.com reaches a person, and the answer will be honest either way, including a no.

—Where they end up

The cooler lid, the tailgate, the camp table, a flat arm.

The cooler lid first, because it is hard, level and already in the circle. Then the tailgate, the folding camp table, the picnic table if the site has one, and the wooden arm of a chair that happens to have a flat one. Not the mesh pocket, and not the ground.

Twelve colours, and the picker assigns one per unit — which around a fire ring after dark is genuinely how anybody finds their own again.

—What the aisle costs

The usual answer is to buy a different chair.

Prices were looked up on 3 September 2026, not estimated. Every figure is the seller’s own.

The productPriceWhat it gives you, in its own words
YETI chair cup holder, add-on accessory$20.00Sold separately — on top of a $300 chair that already includes one. Clamps under an armrest, so it needs that chair.
Snow Peak low chair cup holder$37.95A “secure mesh socket”, and chair-specific: it fits the Low Beach Chair only.
GCI Outdoor Freestyle Rocker$64.00–$80.00Ten colourways. Fabric cup holder; a tested review says it “doesn’t hold heavy drinks well.”
Kelty Lowdown Chair$79.95Marketed on “insulated bevvie holders”. No diameter published anywhere on the product record.
YETI Trailhead Camp Chair$300.00“The Trailhead® Chair’s cupholder fits most drink vessels.” That is the entire published fit claim.
Big Agnes Big Six Armchair$319.95Sold on “two built-in cup holders”. Again, no diameter published.
The Camp Chair Cup Holder$14.95 · four for $39.95, $9.99 eachNo chair required, and none improved. A hard level surface, and a published number: up to 3.15 inches at the base.

If the chair itself is the problem, buy the better chair. A YETI Trailhead or a Big Agnes Big Six is a genuinely better chair than a $30 quad, and this does not make a sagging mesh pocket hold a bottle — nothing does. What it does is make the cooler lid usable, which is where the drink was going to end up anyway.

—Get one

How many, and what colour goes where.

One per chair in the circle is the honest count, and most people order four. Free shipping on all of them.

Checkout is handled by Steadi Labs — the company that makes The Camp Chair Cup Holder. Secure checkout at steadilabs.com. Free shipping on every order, and 90 days to change your mind, used is fine.

—From people who bought one

One of these names a cooler lid. One names lawn chairs.

Verbatim, unedited, not filtered by rating. None of them is from a camp chair, and we are not going to imply otherwise — they are here because they describe the hard surfaces around one.

A black Steadi on a grandstand bench holding a canned drink in a glitter koozie, a spectator's leg beside it, at an outdoor race
Photograph sent in by Holly J with this review.

★★★★★

Our seats are metal benches with a slight slope towards the back, making it impossible to set down any type of drink. We were able to use these for a 20oz bottle with a koozie on it as well as a slim can with an insulated Brumate on it! They worked perfect, holding our drinks on the bench & on our cooler.

Holly J · June 2026Photo from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyer

★★★★★

The Steadi has been popular for sitting out under a pop up canopy on lawn chairs and at a picnic at a nearby state park. We brought the four we ordered and have already placed an order for more since family members have claimed the first ones!

Haila Buskirk · May 2026

★★★★★

They also stay steady on the little wobbly patio table outside.

Susan Ilkenhans · May 2026

★★★★★

My friends love the Steadis. Their motorboat had no place for drinks, and no flat surfaces!

Thea Martin · June 2026

18 more, photographed by the people who bought them

Sent in with their reviews. Tap any one to read it. Different rooms, different drinks, different colours — none of them staged by us.

A slice of one product-wide corpus — reviews of the Steadi, not of this page. The full corpus is published live.

—The limits, in one place

What it does not do.

—If it turns out to be the wrong thing

Ninety days. Used is fine. Nothing goes back in a box.

Ninety days covers a season of weekends. If the answer is no, hello@steadilabs.com reaches a person and the money comes back — no form, no restocking fee, no questions about condition, and nothing to pack up or post. Woodsmoke and dirt included.

  1. You order. Free shipping, every order, always.
  2. It leaves Orange, California within one business day.
  3. USPS, 2–5 days, tracked.

—Who makes it

Steadi Labs. One person, in Orange, California.

The steel injection mould open in the machine, the cavity that forms the base visible.
The mould, in the machine.
Scott Rodriguez at a workbench, holding a terracotta Steadi and looking at it, with shipping boxes behind him.
Scott, who makes them.

Scott Rodriguez made the first one after a full drink went over on a soft cushion with three kids under three in the house. It was built for spills, not for camp chairs.

Nobody sitting round a fire asked for this page. It exists because a wide base does the same thing on a cooler lid as it does on a couch — and because a whole category of chairs is sold on cup holders that nobody will publish a measurement for.

We make one thing and we make all of it here — the moulds, the material, the colour runs, everything within about three and a half miles of the shop.

  • Steadi Labs — veteran founded and veteran owned
  • Designed, injection moulded, picked, packed and shipped in Orange, California
  • Patent pending
  • 100% BPA free
  • 5.2 inches across the foot, about 3.6 ounces

— Scott, Steadi Labs

—Questions

Straight answers.

Does it go in my chair’s cup holder?

No. It is 5.2 inches across the foot — wider than any chair pocket, because it is not designed to go inside one. It stands on a surface instead.

Will it hold my Nalgene?

No. Nalgene publishes the 32 oz Wide Mouth at 3.5 inches and the fins flex to 3.15. It is the most common no on this page and we would rather you knew before ordering.

Will it hold a 40 oz Stanley?

Yes. Stanley publishes a 3.1-inch base — described on their own site as car cup holder compatible — and 3.1 is inside what the fins take. Snug, seats with a push.

Can I use it on the grass?

No. Grass, dirt and gravel are soft and uneven, and a flat foot on any of them leans. This wants a cooler lid, a tailgate or a table.

What about my enamel mug?

Straight no — the handle lands where the fins grip. Every handled mug is the same answer.

Does it work on a wooden chair arm?

If the arm has a flat top, yes. On a rounded or fabric arm, no — there is nothing level for it to stand on.

How does it pack?

2.8 inches tall, about 3.6 ounces, and they nest. Four go in the chair bag and you will not notice them.

Why does this site only sell one thing?

Because it is one thing. It is a Steadi, made by Steadi Labs in Orange, California, and checkout finishes at steadilabs.com where the company lives.

—Still deciding

$14.95 and it does not even go in the chair.

Correct, and that is the honest version. The chair pocket tops out around a 20 oz tumbler on tested reviews. This is for the cooler lid your drink ends up on anyway.

I’ll just buy a better chair.

Reasonable. A YETI Trailhead is $300 and a genuinely better chair. Note that YETI still publishes no diameter for its holder, and still sells a $20 add-on holder for the same chair.

Is it one more thing to lose in the dark?

It is, and we say so. Twelve colours, one per person, and Lantern exists because somebody has to find theirs at eleven at night.

Will the fire hurt it?

Keep it out of the fire — it is TPU, not cookware. It is dishwasher safe, so ordinary heat and hot water are not an issue, and there is no adhesive or metal in it to fail.

The lid was always going to be the table.

For the cooler, the tailgate and the camp table — and not, honestly, for the chair.

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