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.

 

 Set Up

The set up dif­fi­culty for the Moun­tain Trails Grand Pass is about aver­age for a tent of this size. A sin­gle 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 its own 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!