The Big Agnes Fly Creek UL2 2-Person 3-Season Tent provides durable protection in a lightweight, no-hassle design. With just one DAC Featherlite NSL three-branched pole (made with an eco-friendly anodizing process) and DAC aluminum twist clips, this one-door tent sets up easily, packs down small, and comes in with a trail weight of close to two pounds.
Reach for the MSR Hubba Hubba Tent when you head out for some spring, fall, or summer camping with a pal. Divide up this freestanding tent so you'll only carry a couple pounds each; it's simple to set up, which is helpful in bad weather or low light. Forget the tarp and P-cord; you have luxury trail living right here.
The hub-and-pole design of the three-person, three-season MSR Mutha Hubba Tent lets you and your backpacking party maximize interior space while minimizing weight. Two equally sized vestibules provide easy entry and exit to this weatherproof freestanding tent.
NEMO Equipment managed to squeeze a whopping 36 square feet of interior space and another 22 square feet of vestibule storage into the Meta 2P 2-Person 3-Season Tent. This ultralight special weighs under three pounds and pairs with your trekking poles for support. The whole thing even packs down to just five by seven inches, which means it hardly takes more space than a jacket in your pack.
Featuring a luxurious amount of space and headroom, the Sierra Designs Zia 3 Tent sets up easily so you and two friends can enjoy the great outdoors. An innovative X-ridge pole geometry pulls the tent walls outward for gobs of extra usable space, and dual exit points allow for easier bathroom runs in the middle of the night.
NEMO made the Losi 2-Person Tent to be spacious yet lightweight, stable, and durable for three-season trips. The Losi's unique pole structure gives it nearly vertical walls so you can sit up inside without hunching over. Two doors with vestibules mean you and your partner can get in and out without crawling over each other's gear and sleeping area.
Go light with the Black Diamond HiLight Tent when you trek the Appalachian Trail. This three-season tent is more than comfy for one person and can accommodate a second if your buddy wants to bag a few peaks with you.
For cool or hot weather, the MSR Carbon Reflex 3-Person Tent is versatile, lightweight, and spacious enough to fit in a third-wheel. This true 3-season tent weighs in at just over four pounds and is ideal when you want to head far into the backcountry. And, of course, the third wheel can carry it.
Thanks to its simple two-pole design, you don't need a PhD in tent-pitching to set up The North Face Rock 32 Bx Tent, which is awesome because no school offers such a degree. You'll also dig the tent's two doors and double vestibules, which come in handy when you're lodging up to three adults in one tent.
The Kelty Gunnison 4 Tent is a four-person shelter that's ready for three-season outdoor living anywhere from Arizona deserts to Maine backwoods. Configured with two doors and two vestibules, the Gunnison 4's floorplan maximizes your outdoor living space without burdening your back or your budget.
Both you and your backpacking accomplice can comfortably wait out a summer storm inside the Mountain Hardwear Lightpath 2 Tent. Thanks to its water-resistant fly and floor, you can stay dry as the woods around this three-season tent gets drenched in a cold July downpour.
Your family deserves a roomy, dry place to rest after you lead them over a big mountain. The Kelty Trail Ridge 4 Tent provides plenty of space to shelter four people during your spring, summer, or fall trips. The tapered pole design and nearly vertical walls maximize this freestanding dome's livable space, and with two doors and vestibules, you'll have all the room you need to make it through a long weekend adventure with the spouse and kids.
Take the Kelty Gunnison 3 Tent along for anything from warm summer nights in the desert to brisk fall backpacking trips. This three-person, three-season tent lets you set up quickly with just two poles and provides ample sleeping room without adding unnecessary weight to your pack.
Set up your tent quickly and easily when you camp in the Eureka Spitfire 2. This lightweight, three-season, two-person tent features mesh canopy walls for optimal ventilation and a two-pole construction for easy set up. Nearly four feet of head room lets you get in and out of this two-door tent conveniently.
There's no need to get one of those super-heavy family tents that has a room in it large enough for your SUV. Pick up the Sierra Designs Lightning XT Tent; with this ultra-light tent, you can get your family away from the roads and your kids will get hooked on camping early in life.
The Eureka Scenic Pass 3XT Tent provides protection from the elements so you can slumber through the night without worrying about the impending rain storm. A full-coverage waterproof fly keeps you covered, and mesh windows help keep the air circulating to reduce condensation.
Morning comes at just the right time when you're in the mountains. The sun filtering through the walls of your Big Agnes Burn Ridge Outfitter 3-Person 3-Season Tent brings you alive as you let out one more stretchy yawn. Last night's rain soaked everything, but you and your gear stayed dry and untouched thanks to the Burn Ridge Outfitter.
To call the Kelty Shiro a tent is to do it a disservice. The 6-Person, 3-Season Shiro is more like a soft-sided, two-room condo with covered courtyard that you can haul anywhere. This condo-tent features removable sleeping compartments and enough space for bikes and camping gear.
When you and your buddies are planning a late fall hike to summit Kings Peak in the High Uintas, grab Marmot's Limelight 4-Person 3-Season Tent. This lightweight tent comes with a footprint for durability and a fly-and-footprint pitching option, and it comes with a gear loft for storing odds and ends in the tent.
The Big Agnes Seedhouse SL 2 Tent (SL stands for superlight) gives generous internal space and weather protection for you and a partner. Best of all, the Seedhouse does it while weighing less than three pounds.
The Kilo Tent 2-Person 3-Season from Easton Mountain Products is an uber-hardy shelter that weighs roughly same as one-third of a a chihuahua. Of course, if you are a lightweight backpacker, and you are toting a chihuahua into the backcountry, something is not right. And if you are carrying only one-third of a chihuahua, something is seriously not right.
Watch as the Eureka Tetragon 8 Tent morphs from a small bag of fabric and poles into a spacious, four-person storm shelter for basecamp, road-trip car camping, or scouting adventures. The large dimensions of this tent accommodate even the tallest of campers, and the seam-taped, fully waterproof rain fly keeps out intrusive rain when you're weathering the storm. An easy, two-pole design and clip pole attachments makes for quick setup, and an included gear loft holds your headlamps, playing cards, and ear plugs for when your buddy won't stop snoring.
The Carbon Reflex 1 Tent holds the record of being the lightest double-wall tent that MSR has ever made. Carbon fiber poles, lightweight nylon fabric, and a unique two-pole design helps this tent get in just over the two-pound mark, so you barely notice it in your pack.
The Black Diamond Skylight 3-Person Tent is an extremely versatile, lightweight shelter for spring, summer, and fall forays into the backcountry. Modern materials and an innovative design mean that this hybrid (two-thirds single-wall, one-third double-wall) shelter breathes exceptionally well and provides plenty of ventilation so you don't get that uncomfortable clammy feeling.
Designed to keep things light without sacrificing internal space or ease of setup, the Sierra Designs Lightning HT 3-Person 3-Season Tent packs down small, keeps weight to a minimum, and features easy-to-use Jake's Foot pole attachment points for a quick pitch every time.
Low weight, simple design, and bombproof weather protection define a quality tent, and the Kelty Gunnison 2 Tent is all of these things. Without breaking the bank, the Gunnison 2 provides roomy and protective accommodations for two backpackers and features two vestibules to keep your gear out of the rain.
