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Here are three quick fam­ily camp­ing tent  picks that you cant go wrong with.

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Cole­man Red Canyon tent review

Best Fam­ily Camp­ing Tent If Price is a Fac­tor : The Cole­man Red Canyon

It offers plenty and good weather pro­tec­tion while not break­ing  the bank. It can often be found for around $100. It offers rather easy set-up and ample ventilation.

Kodaik Can­vas Flex Bow 8 Per­son Can­vas Tent Deluxe Review

Best Fam­ily Camp­ing Tent if Price Is Not A Fac­tor:  Kodiak Can­vas Flex Bow

The Kodiak Can­vas Flex Bow offer all the needed space, the best weather resis­tance, and it will last for sev­eral decades. They have been mak­ing these tent for a while and are proven to last. This is a good tent for seri­ous and habit­ual campers. This one is good for most sea­sons as well.

Cole­man Instant Tent

Best Fam­ily Camp­ing Tent if Ease of Set Up is Your Main Fac­tor: Cole­man Instant Tent

The Cole­man instant tent can be set up and taken down in a mat­ter of sec­onds. It per­forms well in wet weather and earned its name be doing just what it says: Instant Set Up. It is also avail­able is sev­eral sizes includ­ing a six per­son and a four person.

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 Camp­ing Tents for Sale

Our reviews focus pri­mar­ily on tents that are for sale on the inter­net and at your local out­door retailer.  Our reviews cover all types and all price ranges from cheap tents to top of the line high qual­ity tents. We also com­pare retail­ers to find what’s on sale and the best bar­gains avail­able for those want­ing to buy a tent.

Moun­tain Trails Grand Pass 2-Room 7 Per­son Fam­ily Dome Tent Review

Moun­tain Trails Grand Pass 2-Room 7 Per­son Fam­ily Dome Tent Review

The Moun­tain Trails Grand Pass is one of the cheap­est fam­ily sized tents I’ve seen lately. But I’m talk­ing about the price, not the qual­ity. You can eas­ily find bet­ter  large tents, but you will rarely find one at such a low price. The only other qual­ity tent for this cheap that I can think of is the Cole­man Red Canyon.

Size

The Grand Pass is large enough to accom­mo­date up to seven peo­ple. Six is a more comfy fit. It mea­sures to eigh­teen feet of length by ten feet of width. The cen­ter height is 76 inches, so stand­ing in the tent is pos­si­ble, but there is a dome shape so only the cen­ter area is tall enough to stand. I don’t do much stand­ing in tents any­way, I pre­fer to just use them for sleep­ing. There is a divider cur­tain that can sep­a­rate the tent into two rooms. this is always a wel­come fea­ture on tents of this size.

Moun­tain Trails Grand Pass 2-Room 7 Per­son Fam­ily Dome Tent

 Set Up

The set up dif­fi­culty for the Moun­tain Trails Grand Pass is about aver­age for a tent of this size. One long per­son can get it done with a lit­tle time, but two peo­ple make it a lot eas­ier. It took me approx­i­mately 25 min­utes to get it up alone. There is a pin and ring sys­tem that you see on many tents these days,  to help sim­plify the set up process. One of the best fea­tures of the Grand Pass is how it fits into its duf­fel bag. Once the tent is rolled up you sim­ply wrap the duf­fel around the tent, as opposed to try­ing to squeeze a loose tent back into a tight bag. This can save a few nightmares.

Weather

The rain fly seems to do a good job keep­ing the place dry in light rains. The floors didn’t seep either, but we had a heavy duty tarp under­neath the tent. I haven’t seen the Grand Pass tested in hard rains. I have heard from fel­low campers that the tent has stood up in 25 mph winds, but have also heard a com­plaint that the cen­ter pole gave in dur­ing 25 mph winds. I have seen it with­stand 15 mph, but haven’t seen a Grand Pass in more severe weather. A mesh ceil­ing and end win­dows seem to offer enough ven­ti­la­tion to avoid stale air, while offer­ing good views of what’s hap­pen­ing out­side of the tent.

Other Fea­tures

The Moun­tain Trails Grand Pass has two D shaped doors that make access in and out of the tent easy. no crawl­ing in is nec­es­sary. Each door also has it’s open door mat to help keep mud and dirt where it belongs, out­side of the tent.

Over­all

The Grand Pass doesn’t have all the fea­tures avail­able on mod­ern tents, nor is it made of the high­est qual­ity mate­ri­als. It is what it is , a decent tent that is avail­able at a great price. Pick up a Moun­tain Trails Grand Pass Fam­ily Tent from Ama­zon today! Free ship­ping is available!

McNett Seam Sure Water based Sealer Review

McNett Seam Sure Water based Sealer

Pro­tect­ing your tents seams from water is very impor­tant. While most tents made today offer weather resistance,some can still be leaky if caught in a hard rain, espe­cially if your rain fly is not installed prop­erly. Extra pro­tec­tion is always a safe bet.

Also once tents become aged, their sealants applied from the man­u­fac­turer may ware away.

Seal­ing your tents seams is an impor­tant part of gen­eral tent maintenance.

The McNett Seam sure water based Sealer does a good job of pro­tect­ing your seams. If applied prop­erly it will pre­vent rain frm com­ing through your seams even in per­sis­tent heavy rain.The brush on the tube is sup­pose to make the appli­ca­tion a smooth process. The sealant itself is a lit­tle runny so you should take some pre­cau­tions to keep it from get­ting on you and all over the tent. also the brush is a bit stiff for use on some fab­rics, such as lower end tents. This prob­lem is eas­ily over­come. My sug­ges­tion is to pour a lit­tle of the sealer in a con­tainer and then apply it to the seams with a sponge. There­for you avoid the hard brush and the runny mess.

McNett Seam Sure Summary

the McNett Seam Sure Sealer is really good prod­uct that will keep you dry. The built on appli­ca­tor brush is far from per­fect, but you should not let that stop you from using a qual­ity prod­uct. Pick up your own tube of McNett Seam Sure Water based Sealer at Ama­zon now!

Swiss Gear Élite Series 12 Per­son Huge Fam­ily Dome Camp­ing Tent SG33151 Review

3 room tent                       

Swiss Gear Élite Series 12 Per­son Huge Fam­ily Dome Camp­ing Tent Review

The Swiss gear Élite Series 12 per­son tent comes with enough room to sleep the largest of fam­i­lies. Equipped with a cloth divider that splits the tent into three sep­a­rate rooms, the Élite series has much to offer in the way of pri­vacy. also both of the back rooms have their own door so if you are up later or ear­lier than your fel­low campers you do not have to crawl over or dis­turb them. The nine­teen by nine­teen foot base pro­vides enough space to allow all three rooms to fit a queen size air mat­tress. The mid­dle room has screened walls that can be zipped up to allow  you to turn it into  sleep­ing area. If not sleep­ing in the mid­dle room the walls come down to let in the fresh air and give you an area for eat­ing, play­ing, or stor­age. The cen­ter height is around six feet and ten inches so unless you are a NBA cen­ter you should be able to walk around inside of this tent. This tent might be too big for some tent pads that are present at some camp­grounds. If you are search­ing for a huge tent that is in an afford­able price range, this one will surely sat­isfy your spa­cial needs.

Swiss Gear Élite series Set Up

Swiss Gear Élite Series 12 Per­son Huge Fam­ily Dome Camp­ing Tent SG33151 Review

Set­ting up the Swiss Gear Élite Series is pretty straight for­ward. Noth­ing too com­pli­cated. The size of the tent can make it a chore though. One per­son can assem­ble the tent alone but it will not be easy. Two peo­ple will be able to get it up with­out a prob­lem. With a tent this large it is impor­tant to fol­low the direc­tions care­fully and not skip any steps. Color coded pole and sleeves make things a lit­tle eas­ier to fig­ure out. Set up is time con­sum­ing. The few times we’ve set up this tent, we were never able to get it up in under twenty five min­utes. That was with two peo­ple. but if you need the space it’s worth it. Tak­ing the tent down can be a bit of a time sink as well, just make sure you fold it up prop­erly and care­fully or it will take up more space than it did before.

                                                                      Swiss Gear Élite Series Weather

Swiss Gear Élite Series 12 Per­son Huge Fam­ily Dome Camp­ing Tent SG33151 Review

The Swiss Gear Élite Series 12 per­son is  fully weather resis­tant. It is coated to keep out the water and is designed to be wind resis­tant. That being said a heavy rain can allow for some leaks if you don’t apply the rain fly prop­erly. You should treat the seams and apply a  sealer before tak­ing the tent out as well. This will ensure you stay dry dur­ing wet weather. I’ve only seen this behe­moth in low to mild winds, so I haven’t per­son­ally seen it wind tested.

 Extra Fea­tures

the élite Series 12 per­son is equipped with a eport that allows for access to elec­tri­cal cords with­out hav­ing to leave the door open. Pri­vate doors to avoid other sleep­ers. the green color is nice in a wilder­ness setting.

Cons of the Swiss Gear élite series

I’ve read reports of the mate­r­ial tear­ing on a few occa­sions, but i believe this is due to improper han­dling dur­ing set up. Most likely from inex­pe­ri­enced peo­ple try­ing ti set it up by them­selves or not fol­low­ing the direc­tions properly.

 Élite Series Summary

This isn’t the best tent on the mar­ket, but it does offer a lot of space at a rea­son­able price.Click here to check the cur­rent pric­ing at Amazon.

 Wen­zel Sun­ward 30 Degree Sleep­ing Bag Review

Wen­zel Sun­ward 30 Degree Sleep­ing Bag

The Wen­zel Sun­ward 30 degree sleep­ing bag is a qual­ity sleep­ing bag that is avail­able at a bar­gain price com­pared to other bags of the same qual­ity. The Wen­zel sun­ward does an excel­lent job of keep­ing me warm on cold nights. Although I must admit most of my camp­ing trips occur  in Texas, so my def­i­n­i­tion of cold might be a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from some­body from say Wis­con­sin or Maine. Wen­zel says the bag is good for mild weather camp­ing. I’m sorry, but the thir­ties are cold in my book. My tol­er­ance for cold aside, I’ve slept in this bag in tem­per­a­tures as low as 40 degrees and felt cozy through­out the night. As comfy as I stayed at 40 degrees I believe this bag would do well in the thirty degree range  it is made for. this has been a mild win­ter so far in 2011–2012 for Texas, so if I get a chance test these bags at thirty degrees I will update this review.

 Wen­zel Sun­ward 30-Degree Sleep­ing Bag Comfort

The Sun­ward 30 degree sleep­ing bag is filled with four pounds of hypoal­ler­genic Insul-Therm poly­ester fiber­fill. So peo­ple with aller­gies to cer­tainer fab­rics shouldn’t have issue with this bag. At four pounds this is not too heavy of a bag for a the thirty degree class of bags. Wen­zel designed the sleep­ing bag with quilt through con­struc­tion to keep the fill­ing from get­ting bunched up, thus pre­vent­ing aggra­vat­ing cold spots and annoy­ing lumps that could inter­rupt your sleep­ing. The out­side of the sleep­ing bag is made of a durable poly­ester that should last for many camp­ing trips.

The Wen­zel Sun­ward thirty degree sleep­ing bag is equipped with two straps that make fold­ing up, stor­ing , and trav­el­ing with it a no has­sle expe­ri­ence. the self repair­ing zip­per is another fea­ture that I like about this bag as zip­pers are one of the lead­ing issues that cause campers to throw away a sleep­ing bag.

Immea­sur­able 77 inches in length the Sun­ward should hole peo­ple of above aver­age height. One of my friends is six feet and one inch tall and he fit  in the Sun­ward with­out any com­plaints. The inner liner is a com­fort­able poly­ester pongee, mak­ing the night a plea­sur­able expe­ri­ence. We used these bags with and with­out air mat­tresses under­neath. When we went with­out the  mat­tresses these bags were still com­fort­able through out the night. The Ther­ma­trest Col­lapsable pil­low is a good com­pan­ion to this bag as they both are easy to store and carry.

Wen­zel Sun­ward 30-Degree Sleep­ing Bag Specs

• Tem­per­a­ture rat­ing: 30 degrees F
• Size: 77 by 33 inches
• Fill weight: 4 pounds
• Fill type: Hypoal­ler­genic Insul-Therm
• Outer: Poly­ester
• Liner: Soft poly­ester pongee
• Zip­per: Self-repairing
• Stor­age: 2 elas­tic straps

I have a cou­ple of these Sun­ward bags now and have been sat­is­fied with them. Wen­zel is a com­pany I’ve grown to like hav­ing used sev­eral of their tents in the past sev­eral years. Grab a Wen­zel Sun­ward 30-Degree Sleep­ing Bag from Ama­zon right now!

“Now where are those marshmallows?”

So you’re get­ting the gear together for that week-long fam­ily camp­ing trip. You’ve got your brand new tent, your sleep­ing bags, cook­ing gear, cool­ers, food, light­ing, fur­ni­ture… Hey! Where are we going to put all this stuff? Where are the kids going to sit?

Well don’t have a tentrum. An easy way to solve your cargo conun­drum is with a Stow­Away Hitch Cargo Car­rier. An eas­ily acces­si­ble hitch mount cargo box, the Stow­Away is the ideal com­bi­na­tion of stor­age, secu­rity, reli­a­bil­ity and con­ve­nience. Slid­ing quickly and securely into the receiver hitch of nearly every make and model of SUV, mini­van, truck and RV, Stow­Aways have up to to 16 cubic feet of stor­age capac­ity and can carry loads of up to 200 lbs. That’s a lot of s’mores fixin’s!

Offer­ing easy ground-level access to all your gear, the Stow­Away makes it a snap for any fam­ily mem­ber to grab what they need at rest stops, and pro­vides easy access to your gear when you reach the camp­ground. Say so long to the incon­ve­nience and fuel inef­fi­ciency of a rooftop car­rier. A secure lock­ing mech­a­nism keeps your gear safe while you’re at din­ers, trail­heads and other road­side attrac­tions, and pro­tects your food from the wildlife while you’re out in the wild. Man­u­fac­tured in the USA, the ruggedly con­structed Stow­Away won’t sway or wob­ble as you’re head­ing down a rugged back-country road to your favorite remote camp­site. A weather tight seal keeps every­thing nice and dry should the weather turn wet, and there’s a well-placed drain plug for easy clean-up. Your gear will arrive safe and secure, and your pas­sen­gers comfortable.

Like to take the bikes along when you camp? No prob­lem. The Stow­Away Hitch Cargo Car­rier has been designed to be used simul­ta­ne­ously with the Stow­Away Hitch Bike Rack, a 4-bike and bike gear rack that can also be used sep­a­rately for non-camping excursions.

So grab your gear and head on out. With a Stow­Away Hitch Cargo Car­rier you’ll have plenty of space to haul all every­thing safely and securely to your next great out­door adventure.