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Choosing Camping Tents For Families

from: TRB

Choosing camping tents for families involves picking from among a wide variety of products and features. Since your tent is essentially the "home away from home" that you are creating for your family during your camping adventure, you will want to do a bit of research into what product will be right for you so that you can enjoy your camping experiences in them as much as possible.

Camping tents for families start as small as those that are created for 2 or 3 people and can get virtually as large as you would like them to be. Most camping tents for families are manufactured to sleep up to 10 people or fewer, but you need to understand just what the manufacturer considers those sleeping arrangements would look like. In most cases, family sleeping tents that are listed as sleeping any number of people would require that those people sleep directly next to each other and in alternating directions.

In other words, a six person tent means that one person would sleep with his head next to the next person who is turned 180 degrees so that his feet are next to the first person’s head and vice versa. The remaining people would sleep similarly. So if you want a little extra breathing room, then look for camping tents for families that claim to sleep a higher capacity than what you actually need.

You don’t have to be limited to sleeping this way in camping tents for families. Now, many of these tents come with flaps that fold down into main area of the tent in order to create separate "rooms" within the tent. They can be rolled up during the day time to create a large common living area and then put down at night to allow privacy for different members of your group.

Camping tents for families can also use space creatively in other ways. Many of them have optional "rooms" that can be zipped on in order to expand you useable space in the tent. For example, you can zip on a screened in porch if the bugs are getting too bad to eat outdoors or you can zip on a flap that will give you shade to eat under on other days. Some tents have features such as zip down flaps that create screen covered windows or skylights so that you can get good ventilation while inside.

A quick word of warning when you are considering purchasing a family tent. Remember that the more living space that you are purchasing, the more weight that you are also committing yourself to carrying. So just be sure that if you plan to use a large tent that you are using a car to transport it to the camping site, or that it is compact and light enough that you can manage it while hiking.