20 Best 6 Person Car Camping Tent (2022 Updated)

Tent is great for our family of 4. With other tents, the kids would always let bugs in by forgetting to close the door. With this tent, the hinged D door closes easily and velcros shut. The screened area is a useful spot for our gear and dog.

Setup, while more tedious than other tents these days, can still be done by one person in less than half an hour. The red tape used to identify the poles has come off of one though. The auto-rollup windows are a pretty cool feature, as well as the built in lighting.

The room divider is also useful to give some additional privacy with kids running around. It would have been nice if there were more hooks or loft shelves to store gear. The tent can also get pretty stuffy in direct sunlight.

It has rained a couple times and I haven’t seen any issues with water leaking into the tent, other than dampness due to leaving the windows opened. Overall, a great family tent.

was a little skeptical when buying this tent because it was so inexpensive compared to others similar in size. I’m so glad we bought it though! we took it camping for the first time and it was very easy to put up.

my husband and I got it up within 15 minutes. it’s so roomy inside! I like that there’s the options to create the “rooms” or leave it open. we left it open and it had plenty of room for our full size air mattress and two twin size pads for our kids, and suitcases.

the screen patio was great for coolers and shoes. I highly recommend this tent!!!.

If you have a family and you go camping for longer periods of time… For example, more than three or four nights at a time… I highly recommend this tent! The quality is amazing and the features are unique and desirable.

The netted little porch area you could say is awesome and such an asset. The space the stent provides is better than so many others we’ve tried over the years… We can stand up that’s awesome! Obviously, this one is going to take longer and more effort to put up and take down, which is the only reason for the four stars because clearly that part can be frustrating, especially if it rains and having to leave it out for drying etc.

and the space it can take up and the weight. However, saying all that and taking all that into account, this tent is amazing. As I was saying, if you are a big camper and your family goes often and for longer periods of time, it’s absolutely worth it.

RE: Order #2552, from July 17, 2017. Last year, after returning from a Traditional Archery weekend, I set out to find a tent that didn’t make me feel like I was living in a coffin. I looked at the reviews for all the “well-known” brands, but came across reviews for “Core Equipment”, and liked what I read.

So, me being a once-a-year camper who used borrowed gear, I purchased the 6 person dome (wall) tent 11′ x 9′. And when it arrived, I promptly did. nothing with it. Didn’t take it out of it’s bag, didn’t give it a “look see”.

It just sat in the basement, unchecked, unverified, not even made sure all was there. Until this past weekend, when my big yearly camping trip came round again. So, into the Jeep, and off it went. When I arrived at the event, the first thing I did was get out the tent for set up.

I’ve seen and heard “horror” scenarios of tents and those bendy fiberglass poles. But, not this tent. A friend helped me unfold the tent, and the 2 of us simply set it up, exactly like the basic bag diagram showed.

5 minutes, from unpack to standing and ready. A couple extra minutes to secure the rain flap, the inside wallet hammock, and stake it down. 10 minutes total, from Jeep to occupy. I was dreading the worse-case scenario, but I had nothing like it at all.

And, after 3 days in 90 degree humid weather in Northwestern Pennsylvania, my tent was taken down, packed back in the bag (yes, IT FIT) and brought home. I aired it out at home. set up and take down by myself was no problem at all.

All 3 days, I had enough room for my cot, my gear, a camp chair, and various other items. The walls were high enough for me to stand in, and I’m 5’10”. The air vents and zippered windows kept the tent cool the entire time, and come nighttime, kept me comfortable from too much air, and from the rains that came overnight.

I am so very glad I purchased this tent, after physically comparing it to others over the weekend. I would have to say that, well, fitting 6 folks is not quite realistic, unless there is no gear, and everyone is bricked in.

But for a single person, with bows, a cot, a chair, a cooler, and gear bags, this was MY PERFECT home for the entire trip. Would I recommend this tent? Heck yeah! As a single, or 2 person tent, just to allow for gear and ample movement.

I’m extremely pleased. even though this review is about 1 year after my purchase. Would I purchase another “Core Equipment” tent, if I needed another? I sure would! Do I plan on now taking-on a few more camping trips, if they arise in my future? Yes, I will.

“Core Equipment” has got me covered, and that’s the best you can hope! Thank you! Sincerely, Randy Davis, a happy CAMPER!!!.

This is a great car camping tent. My kids live a couple states over and I travel to see them every other weekend and for most of three seasons we camp on those weekends. This tent makes that experience really enjoyable.

We bought the six person which has ample headroom and a great canopy to keep you shaded or out of the rain. It’s easy to set up. The zippers all seem to work nicely. And it’s bright enough inside the tent with the fly on that if you get rained out you can still play and have a good time.

This tent was easy to setup and incredibly spacious inside, which initially drew me in. However, after buying it brand new and setting it up for the first time I had several concerns that led me to return it: 1.

The tent floor is very thin. I always set up my tents with a tarp or footprint, but the material of this tent felt as though it would stretch and rip just from me walking in it without shoes on. 2. The door zipper was already snagging and required two hands to open smoothly.

Additionally, rather than one zipper track, the door has two tracks that didn’t quite meet fully. 3. The black window mesh is extremely thin and already had multiple runs in it when I first unrolled the tent.

I can imagine how quickly it would deteriorate once in the elements if it’s already snagging just being in the bag. 4. The window “curtains” are not secured by zippers but rather a few fasteners in each corner.

The rain fly does not entirely cover the windows, which gives me concern that in a windy storm, or in somewhat colder temps, this would not keep out the elements, despite being listed as a 3 season tent.

5. The carrying bag for the tent is made of a very thin material, which felt prone to snagging and holes. I paid extra attention to this after seeing a Eureka LX 6 returned to REI with a hole worn into the bag and tent itself, and could see how this could easily happen again after being set down on a tree branch or rock.

This tent is good from a design and layout perspective. It sets up easily and keeps you dry. Unfortunately I noticed small tears in the ceiling screen after a one week camping trip. At first I thought perhaps some campfire cinders had landed on it, but the screen is underneath the rain fly, which was undamaged and had no signs of burns.

I also think the windows were designed to save cost, at the expense of ease of use and functionality. I don’t like having to attach a bunch of loops to put the window flaps up. These should be zippers, just like my good old Backcountry 4.

There are NO tie downs to hold the wrapped up window flaps either. You are apparently supposed to roll it up like a burrito and stuff it in the small pocket at the bottom? This makes stepping on, tearning, and tripping over window flaps a real problem when you’ve got children.

I bought this tent because it’s big, comes from a reputable brand, and is almost $200 cheaper than the comparable REI version. However I am most likely going to return it and spend the extra money if the REI version has better window/screen functions (like zippers).

Overall I like the tent. It does what it needs to do, and has a relatively easy set up. But, the windows don’t zipper close, great for ventilation but I’m worried about rainier weather with it. There is a pocket where it looks like the rain would funnel.

In theory, it should be fine but I can’t know until I camp in the rain. The door zipper is easily snagged on the fabric, and isn’t one continuous track. The fabric on the bottom of the tent is also very thin! No rips yet, but it felt as if one mildly sharp rock could tear a hole.

The pockets for storage are basically at the roof of the tent. I am 5’2 and will be unable to use these pockets. My partner can reach them, but if you’re laying down for bed they’re useless. Again, overall I still really like it, but I don’t know how many camping trips I will get out of it.

I bought this tent years ago from Canadian tire as a back up tent Incase my anything happened to my main tent while I was in the middle of nowhere. This weekend was finally the Coleman Sundomes time to shine.

Set up was very easy with clear instructions, tent quality actually wasn’t the most shocking thing considering its price. I’m not sure if it’s a manufacturing defect on my tent in particular, but you have to stretch the door when zipping up.

Due to the poor quality plastic zipper teeth BOTH of my zippers became derailed in the first and second time opening and the door. If I didn’t have such a negative experience with this tent, leaving me with an open door I would have given it a higher rating for doing the trick on a budget.

After our last trip ended with our tent being filled to the brim with rain water, we decided to do some research on affordable water resistant tents. Eventually we settled on this one. That said, here are some pros and cons.

Pros: -Tall person friendly. The two of us are 5’3 and 6’1 and neither of us had to duck much -Nice views. You can unzip the windows for a panoramic view. -Roomy. We had space for a full size air mattress, all of our packs, cooler, lawn cart, 4 tier ferret cage, AND our other two friends on their camping chairs while it was raining and still didn’t have trouble maneuvering around.

-East setup and tear down. Tent poles are color coded to match the bands on the sleeves. With the two of us, it really only took a few minutes to get completely up. Tear down was just as fast and we were able to pretty easily fit the tent back into its bag.

-Keeps you dry! Our first outing with this tent saw us deep in the Missouri wilderness getting buckets upon buckets of water dumped on us. It started raining at 1am and didn’t fully stop until 2pm. After 13 solid hours of torrential rainfall, our tent was still almost completely dry.

Yes, if rain is pounding on your tent, it’s gonna get a little damp. We stuck a small hand towel in each of the corners to catch any water that may pool up– there wasn’t much, not enough to make the towels soggy.

Even the porch area, which lacks a tub floor, was relatively dry. It really only got wet from our shoes tracking in and out. Cons: -Rainfly needs reinforcing. This is actually my biggest gripe and a very simple fix for anyone handy with a sewing machine.

When we got this tent out for a pre-camping trial setup, we staked down the rainfly and a gust of wind came along and tore a section of the material. After inspecting it, I can say for certain that this happened because of the design.

At the very back of the fly, there is a guy line attached only to the fly’s bias whereas the others are all attached to the bias as well as a seam. All the lines attached at seams were sturdy and held without issue.

So I patched the rainfly and sewed the line back in place with a few layers of zigzag stitching and ironed on some heat bond. It held up great in the rain! *I contacted Coleman about the issue with the rainfly and they were quick to fix it for us.

Their customer service was great and I had a new product on my doorstep within 2 days! -Floor is a little delicate. We DID put this thing through the wringer, but we experienced a slight problem with camp chairs inside the porch area.

I placed my camp rug down inside the screened porch so our friends could bring their chairs in and sit while it was raining, but by the time they cleared out one of the chairs with pointy feet poked two holes in the floor.

Not a huge deal for us since it wasn’t in the actual tent, but a word of warning for anyone that plans on having pointed objects in theirs. -Center of rainfly tends to gather water. It eventually runs off but we decided to get up every few minutes to push the tent up so the water wasn’t standing just in case.

Not a huge deal but still a bit annoying. -Weak tent pegs. This should be a given for anyone with experience but those little pegs that come with all tents aren’t really the best. We used them for some sections but for the four corners of both the tent and the rainfly, we used stronger pegs.

-Windows on the sides can’t be opened in the rain. I suppose you CAN if you don’t mind getting wet, but I liked how you could open the back window during rain without getting soaked. If the side windows were protected by the rainfly the same way then you could.

Not so much a design flaw as much as it is a design preference. All in all, I would highly recommend this tent for someone who has beginner to intermediate camping experience.

I HATE how so many tents have the solid coverings to the windows on the outside – perverts dream. I should be able to close my windows for privacy, safety or weather without going outside. This tent has 3 huge windows and easy to use zipper closures inside the tent with 3 toggles across the top of each window to prevent the window fabric gapping.

CHECK! Why have a porch w/o a floor – bugs, snakes, spiders, etc – and many porch screens are sloped so the rain can easily come in and flood the covered porch area w/ or w/o a floor. This tent has a wonderful rain fly that covers the entirety of the porch and the porch itself has a drain of screen along the back.

CHECK! And speaking of the porch – It easily fits two lawn chairs and a small table to sit and enjoy the view bug free. CHECK! I don’t much get excited about gear lofts but this has several. BONUS! I really prefer help setting it up and taking it down BUT that being said it can be done in about 30 minutes by one person.

I’m a later middle aged woman so it’ll be under 30 minutes if your knees are spry and your back is nimble. CHECK! I may sell this one and go up to a 6 person – why? Because I like a tent to be a bit spacious like I am living in a van not my car.

But I may not, time will tell. Used several times this past summer (5 – 7 day stretches) and LOVE it other than wishing it had a couple more feet of space for me and my stuff. I’m counting on next summer being the same.

I like to leave my suitcase open on the floor for the week, an oscillating fan – electric or battery powered, and my journaling bag on the floor too plus my mattress. I spread out a little and don’t like it too compact.

This tent allows that. No holes or pulls in the bug screen. All poles and cords accounted for. I’ll invest in heavy duty stakes next summer because every place I camped had different soil and next summer should be a beach trip so I’ll need good deep sand stakes too but I look forward to my Coleman being my home away from home.

I was surprised that the tent did not include any set up instructions. Very disappointed with this as it was not intuitive. The next time I set up the tent I will be less stressful. I was lucky to have another person to help me or I don’t think I could have done it.

I also had one pole section split in half when I set it up. I was lucky to have some duct tape to save the day. I have not experienced any rain with this tent yet but I am worried that rain will come in as the fly just doesn’t seem to be large enough.

Nevertheless, it does seem to be well constructed and I would recommend this tent as it is large and roomy. If the tent had been easier to set up and a pole section did not split I would have given this review a higher rating.

Materials seem very durable and modern/lightweight. It packs down nice and small. I like the bag it comes in. Some reviewers complain about the bag but I would heartily disagree. It’s smaller than my friends REI Kingdom all packed up.

Warmth isn’t an issue where we live (Hawaii). Maybe it would be in colder climates? Borrowed a friends REI Kingdom 6. I think I like the Wawona more. It is simpler and has the nice big vestibule. I haven’t put it up in big winds but I would assume any big 6 person tent would be a pain in the butt in the wind.

I was reading the many reviews on REI and honestly most of the qualms seem a little silly complaining about its wind performance, lightweight materials feeling not durable ( I think they feel durable? Maybe Im just a dumb millennial), and no there no rear vestibule which I dont think is a problem as some reviewers state.

They could just get another tent that has a rear vestibule? I was looking at some other models. ended up buying this because it looked more simple and I wanted the vestibule for random rains. and the price was a little less.

I haven’t seen any complaints about bent poles. Seems like lots of REI equivalents complain about that. Not sure if that is factual in real life but just reading interwebz reviews. NEMO tent looks cool but this was cheaper and less complex looking.

Cheaper alternatives like the Costco huge tents etc were considered but I am happy I just pulled the trigger on this quality feeling tent that fits my family of four nicely. I highly recommend doing the “just click and buy this one and go enjoy yourself” rather than researching these tents forever like I did.

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This is my second Coleman tent and is an improvement on the basic tent that preceded it. It has all the space and adds some features I really appreciate. Having 2 doors with windows in each provides much better ventilation and convenience options for entering and leaving the tent.

The hinged door is effective in keeping bugs out and just easier to use, especially for a longer term camping trip. The light in the tent is actually very convenient also. I appreciate the amber setting for night getting ready to sleep.

I typically spend one weekend a month camping with our Scout troop and one or two weeks during the summer. I have found this tent to be dry and well made during some heavy storms. I wouldn’t hesitate to reccomend this tent.

First of all, this tent is actually a decent size for 2-3 people if you want space for comforts and gear, for glamping I’d recommend 1 – 2 people. That being said, this tent was easy enough for me, 52 yr old woman at 5’3.

5″ in height to put up alone, much quicker with help of another person (but not required). I have only used this tent for myself, very recent camping trip, as other family members attending slept in their own tent.

We did get an early morning thunderstorm with rain, and the tent stayed dry, with no additional water repellent treatments applied. Though there was no strong winds, I feel this tent would hold up nicely if staked out properly, including guy lines (which we couldn’t do this trip because it was set up on the driveway).

For my personal preference, the comforts of “Glamping” is my style, and this tent lends perfectly for such with the features of hinged door, auto-roll windows, and the built in lighting. All of these features were of use to me and offered outstanding conveniences.

I also liked the peaks off the doorways, this allowed for the windows to be partially open during rain to help with airflow. Also, having the two sides of rain fly staked out, allowing for air flow between the screened side walls and fly, provided additional ventilation.

I would not however, see any use for the divider wall that comes with the tent personally, it’s just too small of space. Unless you plan to have no larger than twin size air bed (I have a full size), cot or sleeping pad, you wouldn’t have floor space for gear or even to move around.

Overall, I highly recommend this tent, well made, easily setup/take down, and convenient, luxury features.

My husband and I bought this tent last summer. Now the fiberglass poles for the awning and hinged door are breaking. We bought the awning replacement pole only to have the main awning break too. Love the features but hate the poles.

We have had Coleman’s tents for years and never had this issue except after many years of wear.

Bought this tent for rafting and car camping to give us more room than in our backpacking tents. The tent held up well to strong canyon winds, and has performed well on week long rafting and camping trips.

Thankfully, I have not yet had a chance to test the waterproofing of the tent, so I cannot comment on this feature. On the down side, the poles are really heavy, and this makes the whole package only suitable for camping with some kind of vehicle support.

Secondly, the pegs supplied bend pretty much as soon as you look at them, so purchasing a stronger set of pegs is a pretty good idea. I found that erecting the tent is really a struggle unless you make sure you stake out the corners before you try to insert the poles.

The instructions point this out, but I managed to miss this important step and the resulting frustration is not something I would wish on anybody. Once I figured this out, setting up and taking the tent down was a whole lot easier.

It is certainly nice to have a helper or two, but definitely not too much trouble for one person once you have practice. Overall this tent has performed admirably and provided a spacious housing for three adults plus gear for multi day camping trips.

It will sleep four people with no trouble, and has a modest vestibule to store shoes and small bags.