Connect the snap-quick clips to the tent poles to give the tent shape. Lay out all of the parts of your tent and ensure all parts are present. Roll out the tent body and position it with the door pointing in the direction you desire and the roof pointing upward. The Ozark Trail Three Room Instant Cabin takes our top spot as the best Ozark Trail tent. With room for 12 and nearly seven-foot ceilings, it checks all our boxes for a big family tent, but even as cabin shelters go, this one is special.
Like the 12 person tent, it also comes with a T-style door, so you can move camping gear and furniture without having to fangle it through a small, D-style door. Ozark Trail makes tents of all sizes, but we’ve found larger family camping tents to be their forte. I had a 3-Person EZ Up tent (which I had no problem with except it was too small). It went up fairly easy and there was no wind or anything else. There was a slight rain when I went to bed on the 3rd night.
Thread the stakes through the tent pole sleeves that are sewn into the seams of the tent body. Center the poles so that the tent resembles a spider’s web. It’s a cool tent all around, but our favorite feature has to be the 360-degree views delivered courtesy of this yurt’s giant mesh windows. There are three of these large floor-level windows along the walls of the tent, plus the giant mesh doorway that can be left open in good weather. Having room to spread out inside a tent is great, but unless it’s after dark or raining, chances are you won’t be spending any more time inside your shelter than you absolutely have to. Nobody wants to spend all day sitting in direct sunlight either though, and that’s where a tent with a screen room like this Ozark Trail 9 Person Cabin comes into play.
Next night still calm, took cover off and loved looking up at the night sky. My husband and I decided to head to the Texas coast for our 10yr old’s first camping trip. I LOVE the room first of all , and the looks were very eye pleasing too.
So I would not put it to very serious tests in harsh weather conditions. The bigger part of the tent is a single-layer structure, only the ceiling is with the mesh and here you have the minimal fly added as the second layer. However, the windows and the door are also double-layer with mesh and waterproof panels. Assemble your tent poles by snapping the nylon sections into the metal tube-shaped connectors.
I am 67 yrs old and have used Ozark Trail tents for years, but this covered screen dome turned out NOT TO BE A TENT. I would not even think of unloading it on my worst enemy. Thank you OZARK for making camping nights with small children just a little more difficult!!!!
Having a separate rain fly for a 2- or 3- person tent makes sense because multiple people can split up the weight a little easier on longer hikes. With a 1-person tent, that doesn’t really make as much sense. After all, I was carrying the whole thing and so it might as well be connected.
I would suggest that you go back to making the tents as in the past and I’d love to have another tent only if I knew I wouldn’t wake up to rain coming in on me. Daughter did manage to get a lot of tent trapped in one zip at one stage and after 10 minutes of cursing I had the material out of the zip but the teeth were ‘offset’. Completely opening then closing the zip (again as per instructions) recovered everything as per new though. However, one of the rear hooks (that also seats the fly pole) started pulling out of the seam, so we managed to swap it for a replacement @ a Walmart in North Carolina. The replacement worked fine for the remainder of our tour, including surviving a pretty heavy thunderstorm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A subreddit for campers concerned more about the act of camping and less concerned about hiking long distances or light gear.
This tent is for groups or families that want to travel with the entire squad, but don’t want to have to sleep next to each other. The final tent I’ll review today is Ozark Trail’s largest – their 14 person, 4-room tent. The best part ozark trail chair of this camping tent is that the three rooms make sense. It doesn’t feel like they just slapped some room dividers into the tent. With the large welcoming door you enter a huge 14′ x 10′ tent giving you 140 sq ft of living space.
Also, a rear window accessed from the outside can be staked out into a small awning that protects the tent’s interior if you need a little extra air when it’s raining. The front door runs nearly the tent’s entire ozark tent height, and an additional bug net door mirrors it exactly. If need be, one or both of these doors can be rolled back completely, converting the tent into an open-air structure that still keeps the bugs out.