Ozark Trail 6-Person Dark Rest Instant Cabin Tent Review Tested!

We’re looking at the packed size & weight of the tent to see if it’s easy to carry around with you. So there you have it, your list of the best 8 person tent instant setup style you can buy today. You have plenty of mesh around and if you have to keep all the windows and doors closed, you still have a large vent on its narrow side, see the picture below. This together with the mesh on the ceiling will create enough vertical air circulation. All of them are double-layer structures with mesh and zippered panels for protection and privacy. Rating and Summary The Core Straight Wall Cabin Tent is an incredibly spacious tent.

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It can also be used as a power source to fire up electrical heaters or stoves. While the secondary room stays wide open for enjoying the outdoor ozark trail canopy tent environment in a bug-protected enclosure. Families will also benefit from having the parents in one room, and the kids in another room.

As you’ve seen from our in-depth review, this ozark trail instant cabin Tent for 12 people is an impressive multifunctional tent. With 3 spacious rooms and sewn-in walls, you can achieve ultimate privacy. It’s smart to have this open, yet undercover, space because you can soak in the atmosphere whilst staying protected. It feels like a real home inside with the tall roof and wide-open space.

It also costs more, though, and is less forgiving of a careless set-up. With that being said, there are a few things you’ll want to know going into your purchase. First, all Ozark Trail tents should be considered “fair-weather” shelters.

You could even fit a queen-sized bed in each room with a little space to spare. Regarding the capacity, this is officially a 6-person tent, but the area is 90 ft² (8.36 m²) and this implies 15 ft² (1.4 m²) per person. So this can work for a group of friends on a cross-country tour or for an open-air concert and festival. Tent is made of polyester and steel with large windows and mesh screen. I didn’t think I had a large enough space in my backyard to pitch this tent (14×13.5) I barely squeezed it in my yard. I laid down a tarp before I took out the tent from its box and it took me about 15 minutes to put up (&and I don’t like reading instruction but it is on the inside of the duffle bag).

This is also a cabin style tent with straight but angled walls, though you do not have a stand-up height, the tent is with the peak height of 66 inches (168 cm). The dimensions and the shape are the same as in their Ozark Trail 6-Person Dark Rest Instant Cabin Tent. If you can afford to spend more on a family tent, we recommend The North Face Wawona 6. Everyone who tested this tent loved it, and it’s not hard to understand why. With plenty of interior space, near-vertical walls, and a gigantic vestibule that could accommodate a golf cart, the Wawona feels more like a tiny home than a tent. Though the Wireless’s fly kept water out of the tent’s interior, it took longer to fully dry once the rain stopped than some others we tested.

So, if you have 2 actual queen beds of 80 by 60 inches, it won’t be able to fit into the tent, because the length is a little too short for 2 actual queens. Overall, I can’t say this 6-Person Dark Rest tent was particularly innovative, I’ve seen better dark rest features in other tents. Generally speaking, if you go into buying an Ozark Trail tent with reasonable expectations, you won’t be disappointed. None of these tents are designed to hold up in a serious thunderstorm. They’re not built for heavy winds, and they certainly aren’t made to stand up to heavy snow.

But unlike the Mineral King 3 and the Tungsten 4, the mesh on each Base Camp tent starts high on the walls—more than 4 feet from the ground. This design is a big plus for people who regularly camp in crowded campgrounds and don’t like to get naked in front of strangers. And you can unzip the front door, remove it, and neatly stash it into one of the tent’s internal pockets—a useful feature if you’re feeling sociable. Underneath the fly, the Mineral King 3 has a full mesh dome with a waterproof, tape-seamed bathtub-style polyester floor. The tent doors are nearly wall-sized, and after you unzip them, you simply stuff them into pockets, rather than having to roll and toggle-tie the fabric.

This screened-in shelter also gets high points for its price, which is always a selling point with an Ozark Trail tent, but this one represents a particularly good value considering all its features. This model comes with a removable rain fly that easily attaches to the legs. While you can leave it on or off, there’s really no reason to not attach it, as it has skylight panels that line up with the tent’s mesh ceiling, allowing you to watch the sky or let light into the tent at any time.

The material of the tent body and rainfly are made of 68D coated polyester fabric. Apart from the roof though, there’s not a lot of mesh from the 5 windows and the door, because they’re not very big. This Ozark Trail 10-Person Tent can accommodate 10 single sleeping pads or sleeping bags, and here’s what having 10 pads in this 10-person tent looks like. Because it’s ridiculously inexpensive, the quality, design and weather protection isn’t the best, though I think it’ll work decently in summer (without rain, of course). When you’re not sleeping, you can still keep the rooms open and fold back the doors for a lovely roomy and airy feel. With the versatility of 3 rooms, we love how well this tent would work in a group or family camping situation.