The Ozark Trail 12 Person Instant Cabin Tent sets up in under two minutes! This 12-person tent requires no assembly because the poles are pre-attached to the tent; just unfold and extend. This three-room, cabin-style tent has large windows on all sides and room to stand up.
A year later, in early April 2017, we took another group trip to Point Mugu, in an effort to evaluate three additional family tents. Car campers who plan to brave miserable weather will appreciate the extra strength and protection of the REI Co-op Base Camp 4 Tent. Our other dome-style tent picks ozark tent are structured with two main poles with added support from smaller brow poles. The Base Camp, by contrast, has four full-size aluminum struts weaved throughout it, somewhat like a basket. The Base Camp also offers superior privacy compared with our other picks—with or without the rain fly.
The Ozark Trail Yurt gets high marks for its overall interior space with 169 square feet of floor room and ceilings over 7 feet tall at their peak. That’s plenty of room for two queen mattresses with room left over for some chairs, a cooler, and a camp table. Speaking of camp tables Ozark Trail actually includes a small table with this shelter, which mounts at the base of the main support pole to make the most of the tent’s interior space. The table includes four large hanging mesh pockets at its sides, which, along with the multiple pockets found along the walls of the Ozark Trail Yurt, make storage and organization another high point of the tent.
As you can see from the larger tents above, they come in all kinds of different arrangements. Pick what kind of shape you want your tent in, Ozark Trails will have it. Of course, like every Ozark Trail tent, it comes with electrical ports so you can charge your phones at night. The final tent I’ll review today is Ozark Trail’s largest – their 14 person, 4-room tent.
A good tent allows you to fully enjoy the outdoors, without having to spend 2 hours trying to set up the tent, only to give up & end up sleeping in your car; it sucks. It has an included rainfly, and the 7 mesh windows can be zipped up to prevent rain from entering. It has a nice mesh roof, mesh walls in the first room, and small windows in the second room, making for great ventilation overall. ozark trail wall tent With 7 mesh windows and a full mesh roof, the Ozark trail has great ventilation. Although some tents promise to hold up to 12 people, things can get a little cramped when you have all the sleeping bags fully rolled out. Measurements will matter more than how the tent is advertised, so use a measuring tape to map it out and decide on the size that will accommodate sleeping arrangements.