So this was my review of the Ozark Trail 9-person instant cabin tent with a bonus screen room, a nicely designed and very livable family camping tent. It is designed to be used with two rooms and all necessary details are built to allow for such a use. But it can also be used as a single room tent plus its great screen room.
The benefits are the easy pop-up installation and fold down, and even come in smaller sizes at even lighter weights if that makes more sense for you. The assembly is also easy ozark trail screen house at 45 seconds and weighs only 34 pounds for easy transport. Like the CLAM, you can buy wind resistance panels separately if you’re camping somewhere particularly breezy.
The Coleman has even more extra space at 120 square feet of floor area. But with this extra size means extra set-up time at 3 minutes and a whopping 45 pounds folded down. This can be useful when bad weather suddenly turns on you.
Though the seams are all factory sealed and the tent is waterproof. The fly is a typical minimal design, made that way so that you have unobstructed views through all those 6 windows. The frame with all poles is preattached to the tent, you only have extra 3 poles for the screen room. The poles are a combination of steel and fiberglass. Regarding the construction, this is a summer camping tent, with the ceiling completely mesh and the fly is minimal by design. So you should not plan to use it in a cold environment, this structure cannot keep the warmth.
Trailspace’s community of gear reviewers has field-tested and rated the top tents and shelters. Some of these tents shown I guess can use over a tent, and during covid some could be used as a bubble. Some of the dome types have seen being used at restaurants in their patios. I would use for extra cover over my Dodge van, and extra cover over any of my tent collections and just in yard.
Setting up the screenhouse you need an army of people to hold the frame in place to put the screen over. Then the hooks don’t even reach the ozark trail screen house holes at the bottom of the poles. Then if you can manage to get that far, you have to run like crazy to get it tied down before if falls over.