Every question, answered.

Yes — unlevel ground is exactly the case it's built around. Sites are graded for drainage, not level — the same reason leveling blocks live in your rig's storage bay — and the wide flexible base spreads across dirt, gravel, or a laminate tabletop instead of tipping the way a narrow base does. Tilt the ground under it and it settles back.

No — good news, since that's the strict standard in the rig. The base doesn't need the site chocked to spec first. It flexes with whatever grade the ground or the dinette actually has, on either surface.

Measure the base, not the rim. About 2 to 3 inches across settles in — the 40 oz Stanley fits. A 32 oz wide-mouth Nalgene runs past the ceiling, and a handled enamel camp mug doesn't fit either; the handle is in the way of the fins.

Yes — a hard, flat surface like laminate holds at least as well as ground does. Plenty of dinettes ship with no cup holder at all; this sits on top without a drilled hole or a discontinued factory part to go hunting for.

It can sit on the ground beside the chair instead of riding in a mesh pocket sized for a bare can. That matters because a chair that leans on soft ground takes the drink with it when the drink is riding the armrest; set on its own footing beside the chair, the base doesn't care which way the chair leans.

No. Nothing drives into gravel or hardpan, nothing clips to a specific armrest tube, and nothing gets drilled into the dinette. It just rests on whatever ground, table, or lid you set it on, and it moves the second your chair does.

There's no hardware to click or rattle when you set it down. Reaching for a drink in the dark just means finding the base where you left it, upright, on the ground beside the chair.

Shake it out, rinse it at the spigot, or run it through the dishwasher back home. One piece of flexible injection-molded material, nothing to unscrew or fray.

Almost none. It's one flat, flexible piece with no legs or stakes — it slides down the side of the camp tote or into the chair's own carry sleeve.

It's called the Steadi, injection molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs — veteran-founded and patent pending. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 30 days to send it back if it doesn't earn a spot in the rig.

No — the fins grip a container by its bottom inch regardless of what's inside it, hot percolator coffee at first light or an iced drink straight from the cooler. It's holding the outside of the cup, not touching what's in it.

Yes. The site conditions this is built around aren't specific to one kind of rig — the laminate dinette, the off-level parking spot, and the fire ring outside are the same physics whether you're pulling a fifth-wheel, a travel trailer, or driving a motorhome.

Those run all over the map in base size, more than almost anything else in the cooler, so there's no single answer — check each one against the sticky-note test before it goes in the tote. Anything landing in the 2 to 3-inch range settles in the same as an adult's cup; anything narrower sits too loose.

Plenty of campers do — one per chair around the fire ring means a drink stays with the seat instead of getting carried around camp. It's a personal call, not a requirement; one base moves easily enough between the chair, the dinette, and the picnic table over the course of an evening.

It's aimed squarely at that kind of trip — the person who already owns leveling blocks and a favorite folding chair usually has an opinion about where their drink keeps ending up. It's molded in small runs in Orange, California, and free shipping applies to every order.

There's no multi-season field data to point to yet since it's a newer product, so that's an honest gap rather than a guess. What's true today: it's one molded piece with no fabric, hinge, or spring to fray or seize, which is usually the first thing to fail on gear that lives in a camp tote. And the 30-day guarantee covers it — if it doesn't hold up the way this page describes, email hello@steadilabs.com and it gets made right.

That's most of what it's built for — it doesn't need a table, a hookup, or any particular surface. It rests on bare ground, gravel, a tailgate, or the dinette just the same, which matters most exactly when the site has skipped the table entirely.

Both solve a narrower case than a full site does. A clip has to match your chair's specific armrest tube and then holds the drink out on one arm as leverage; it doesn't help at the dinette or by the fire ring where there's no armrest at all. A stake only works where the ground accepts a spike — compacted gravel and hardpan refuse it outright — and even where it drives in clean, it holds its own patch of dirt, not the chair, so it's no help the moment you get up and move. The base doesn't stake, clip, or clamp to anything; it just rests on whatever surface is under it, chair-side, tabletop, or ground.