Wilmot is located near Gander Mountain, the highest point in Lake County, Illinois, a short distance across the state line.

[9] From 2019 to 2020, Gander Outdoors replaced its parent company Camping World as the title sponsor of NASCAR's Truck Series.

[10][11] Gander Mountain offered sportswear, hunting, fishing, camping, and other related outdoor recreation equipment.

[12] Gander Mountain was formerly traded on NASDAQ but was turned into a private company under the majority ownership of David Pratt and the Erickson family,[13] which own Holiday gas stations.

Physically, and visually, the stores had wider shopping aisles, high-joist ceilings, brick and stone accents, log-wrapped columns, and other wilderness related decorations.

Starting in 2010, it had opened six Gander Mountain Academy and Firearms Supercenters, originally called “gun world”, where it estimated that over 250,000 people had received training.

The purchase of Overton's, based in Greenville, North Carolina, helped Gander Mountain's transition back into direct marketing.

In December 2013, Gander Mountain brought suit against Cabela's claiming that the competitor was illegally using domain names related to its business.