The coleman screen tent Instant Tent is available in 4 sizes and is designed for family campers who want a cabin tent that sets up quickly with a minimum of fuss. Because the Coleman 2 person instant tent is so small it actually does pretty well in cold weather. Because there is no wind/rain cover the Abco Tech pop up tent is not as waterproof as the Coleman and is better for fair weather weekend camping. I occasionally even use my instant tent as a place to store my RV camping gear when it’s raining outside. When something is easy to set up like this the usability goes up and you can find lots of little uses every day.
If necessary, fold or invert the tent fabric and clean the bottom of the floor. Campers who have not used a ground cloth or who have camped on flooded ground will likely need to do this. Unlock and collapse the vertical side poles to lower the tent.
The first is coleman instant tent’s weather-resistant polyester fabric, which uses anti-wicking fibers and webbing as a first line of defense. In addition to this, Weathertec tents use Coleman’s “inverted seam” technology, which puts the stitching of their seams inside the tent rather than exposing them to rain or runoff. The second weak point of Coleman tents is typically the stitching. The same rules apply here in that you don’t want to put any more pressure or stress on the seams of your tent than is necessary. Forcing your poles through their sleeves, hanging heavy objects from your tent ceiling, or failing to properly stake and guy out a Coleman tent is a great way to pop a seam. After testing and analyzing a multitude of Coleman tents , we finally decided that the Coleman Skydome 4 is the best option currently available.
Privacy is another essential feature for comfortable festival camping. The windows on this Ozark Trail tent zip closed so that you have privacy even when the rainfly isn’t on. The walls and ceiling are made of 211 denier oxford weave fabric. Not only are they waterproof and durable, but the fabric is UPF 50+. The Core 10-Person Instant Cabin With Screen Room is an excellent instant setup tent with an indoor space for relaxing while still in nature. You can use the room divider to create a designated sleeping space with sleeping bags and still have a screened porch with plenty of ventilation.
You’ll also want to aside some extra time to strap on the secondary rainfly should you opt to purchase this along with the tent, but we’ll talk more about that later on. It’s also worth noting that this tent can easily be set up by only one person, something that cannot be said for several of the two-person tents in our review. I mentioned in the key features above that the tent is single-layer and the fly is built in. The latter means that the roof and the walls are made waterproof, so an extra fly is not needed in principle.
While the Toogh does come equipped with two doors that allow for cross-breeze, we longed for a few windows. We can see this tent as a good choice for couples but for a family camping tent, its windowless, hexagonal design had a claustrophobic feel. Like the Night Cat, this tent can’t stand on its own without the integrated rainfly. The rainfly is attached to the telescoping fiberglass poles, and you can remove the internal tent for a sun tent or a minimal camping cover. The problem is that in tent mode, the Toogh doesn’t have nearly the same level of ventilation as the other tents we tried. This may not be a big deal where you are, but in Southern California, it’s a big deal.