9 Best Tents (2025), Tested: Camping, Family, and Outdoor Palaces Leave a comment

REI’s Base Camp tent is the best-designed, best-built six-person tent I’ve ever used. It additionally proved itself probably the most waterproof giant tents in our testing. It is a conventional dome tent design, with two crossed poles and two aspect poles. The tent ground is high-quality 150-denier (150D) polyester, whereas the edges are a mix of mesh and 40D nylon. There’s a great deal of storage pockets, double doorways, nice vents, and big home windows, making it comfy even in summer time warmth. It is also one of many few family-size, three-season tents in the marketplace with a virtually full-length rain fly (product of 75-denier polyester), which makes it appropriate for these extra weather-prone fall and spring journeys (the fly sits about 3 inches off the bottom, so not four-season degree just like the Marmot under, however shut). It is also surprisingly secure within the wind contemplating how tall it’s (74 inches for the six-person mannequin).

The within is roomy. My household of 5 (two adults, two youngsters, one 10-year-old) had no hassle becoming inside. There’s loads of room for 5 smaller sleeping pads, or you may double up on Exped’s Megamat Duo ($349) for an additional comfortable automobile tenting setup. The vestibules are good and roomy too, providing storage for the remainder of your tenting gear. In case you really need some additional, lined, outside house, you possibly can seize the Base Camp Car Connector for $170 (untested, nevertheless it’s on my checklist).

With two enormous doorways which have massive, no-snag zippers, it is simple to get out and in of the Base Camp with out stepping on anybody. There’s additionally all kinds of storage choices, together with six pockets (one for every particular person), and plenty of hold loops stitched into the ceiling permitting you to hold lights or string a clothesline. There are additionally loads of mesh vents, which make it attainable to get a pleasant cross breeze by means of the tent on heat nights.