REI’s Base Camp tent is the best-designed, best-built six-person tent I’ve ever used. It additionally proved itself one of the crucial 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 perimeters are a mixture of mesh and 40D nylon. There’s a great deal of storage pockets, double doorways, nice vents, and large home windows, making it snug even in summer season warmth. It is also one of many few family-size, three-season tents available on the market 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 beneath, however shut). It is also surprisingly steady 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 bother becoming inside. There’s loads of room for 5 smaller sleeping pads, or you would double up on Exped’s Megamat Duo ($349) for an additional soft automobile tenting setup. The vestibules are good and roomy too, providing storage for the remainder of your tenting gear. In the event you really need some further, lined, out of doors house, you may seize the Base Camp Car Connector for $170 (untested, but it surely’s on my listing).
With two big doorways which have massive, no-snag zippers, it is easy 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 cling loops stitched into the ceiling permitting you to hold lights or string a clothesline. There are additionally loads of mesh vents, which make it doable to get a pleasant cross breeze by way of the tent on heat nights.
| Specs | |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 100 x 86 in. (4-person) / 110 x 110 in. (6-person) |
| Inside dwelling house | 56 sq. ft (4-person) / 84 sq. ft (6-person) |
| Vestibule house | 27 + 17 sq. ft (6-person) |
| Top | 63 in (4-person) / 74 in (6-person) |
| Weight | 17 lbs., 5.6 oz. (4-person) / 20 lbs., 11.5 oz. (6-person) |
| Capability | 4- or 6-person |
| Doorways | 2 |
