Tents

The Coleman 15-by-10-foot Durango tent sleeps up to eight people comfortably, making it a terrific tent for family camping trips. The tent boasts 126 square feet of floor space and a center height of 77 inches, giving you sufficient space for the whole gang and their gear. Users will likewise dig the included divider, which separates the tent into two discerned rooms–a ought to for those who value their privacy. Perhaps the most necessary feature, however, is Coleman’s exclusive WeatherTec shelter system, which keeps the Durango arid in even the soggiest weather (guaranteed!). The scheme is built using weather-resistant fabric, with anti-wicking thread, webbing, and zippers that keep moisture away, a zipper cuff for further protection, and protected, leak-free inverted floor seams that dramatically increase weather resistance by hiding the needle holes inside the tent and away from the elements. Coleman’s elite welding technology, meanwhile, helps keep the floors strong and waterproof. Add in Coleman’s Wind Strong Frame, which is engineered to be more inviolable and more wind-responsive than most other frames, and you have an idealisti tent for inclement weather conditions.

Other details include redesigned 11 mm and 9.5 mm shock-corded fiberglass poles; guy- out triangles for firm anchoring and high performance; a rainfly for the doors and windows; a welcome mat; mesh vents for increased ventilation and comfort; and two inside pockets for added storage. The Durango tent comes with a five-year fixed warranty.

About Coleman
The Coleman Company has been creating and innovating productions for recreational outdoor use since W.C. Coleman started selling gasoline-powered lanterns in 1900. Inventor of the hugely ordinary fold-up camp stove, Coleman devised a plastic liner for his galvanized steel coolers in 1957–the birth of the progressed cooler–and the company has been bettering their utility and design ever since. The array of productions that bear the Coleman name now includes just when it comes to everything you might need to work or play outdoors, from tents and sleeping bags to boats, backpacks, and furniture.

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Selecting a Tent
Fortunately, there are all kinds of tents for weekend car campers, Everest expeditions, and everything in-between. Here are a few things to keep in mind:

Expect the Worst
In general, it’s wise to choose a tent that’s designed to withstand the worst possible conditions you think you’ll face. For instance, if you’re a summer car camper in a region where weather is predictable, an inexpensive family or all aim tent will likely do the trick–especially if a vehicle is nearby and you may make a crazy dash for safety when bad weather swoops in! If you’re a backpacker, alpine climber or bike explorer, or if you like to car camp in all seasons, you’ll want to take something designed to handle more adversity.

Three- and Four-Season Tents
For summer, early fall and late spring outings, choose a three-season tent. At minimum, a quality three season tent will have lightweight aluminum poles, a reinforced floor, lasting stitching, and a quality rain-fly. Some three-season tents offer more open-air netting and are more quintessentially designed for summer backpacking and other activities. Many premium tents will feature pre-sealed, taped seams and a silicone-impregnated rain-fly for intensified waterproofness.

For winter camping or alpine travel, go with a four season model. Because they quintessentially feature more lasting fabric coatings, as well as more poles, four-season tents are designed to handle heavy snowfall and high winds without collapsing. Of course, four-season tents precise a weight penalty of in regards to 10 to 20 percent in trade for their strength and durability. They also tend to be more expensive.

Domes and Tunnels
Tents are broadly categorized into two types, freestanding, which may stand up on their own, and those that will have to be staked down in order to stand upright. Freestanding tents often integrate a dome-shaped design, and most four-season tents are constructed this way because a dome leaves no flat spots on the outer surface where snow may collect. Domes are also inherent more inviolable than any other design. Meanwhile, a heap of three-season models utilize a modified dome configuration called a tunnel. These are still freestanding, but they require less poles than a dome, use less fabric, and specifically have a rectangular floor-plan that offers less storage space than a dome configuration. Many one and two-person tents are not freestanding, but they make up for it by being more lightweight. Because they use less poles, they may also be rapidly and without delay to set up than a dome.

Size Matters
Ask yourself how numerous people you’d like to fit in your fabric hotel now and in the future. For soloists and minimalists, check out one-person tents. If you’re a mega-minimalist, or if you have your eye on doing a good deal of big wall climbs, a waterproof-breathable bivy sack is the ticket. Some bivy sacks feature poles and stake points to give you a little more breathing room. Also, if you don’t need bug shelter and you want to save weight, check out open-air shelters.

Families who plan on car camping in good weather may choose from a wide range of jumbo-sized tents that will accommodate all your little ones with room to spare. A wide range of capacities is likewise available for three- and four-season backpacking and expedition tents. Remember, though, the larger the tent you buy, the heavier it will be, even though it’s easy to break up the tent elements among various humans in your group. It’s likewise helpful to compare the volume and floor-space measurements of models you’re considering.

The whole gang may sleep comfortably in the big Coleman 15′x10′ 2-Room Durango Tent. Measuring a full 6’4″ high at the center, the tent sleeps eight people, with removable hanging dividers to fabricate discerned rooms. Coleman’s exclusive WeatherTec scheme is packed with features to keep you and your tent dry, whatsoever the weather. The lasting tub floor has welded corners and inverted seams, making it waterproof to keep moisture out. Leak-free rainfly seams, water-resistant fabric, and weather-protected zipper guards are all particularly designed to repel water and keep you and your gear dry. A strong frame design with 11mm and 9mm (color-coded) shock-corded fiberglass poles are engineered to withstand stormy conditions. There are discerned storage bags for tent, poles and stakes, with easy-to-follow instructions sewn right into the carry bag, so you’ll always have them with you.

Product Details

Amazon Sales Rank: #352126 in Sports & Outdoors
Color: Red/Gray
Brand: Coleman
Model: 2000000143

Features

2 rooms; sleeps 8 persons comfortably
Floor space: 15′x10′; center height: 77″
Exclusive WeatherTec’ System — Keeps you arid — Guaranteed
Removable hanging dividers to create distinguished rooms
Strong 11mm & 9mm shock-corded, color-coded fiberglass poles

Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Good tent, not great
By Todd
When I ordered this tent, I was a little worried about it’s size – 10′X15′ seemed so big that I was afraid it wouldn’t really feel like camping. But for better or worse, the tent isn’t that big – it’s not a square, and I think they measure the widest and deepest parts, which isn’t representative of the overall size. In terms of usable space, it’s probably about 8.5′X13′, big enough for 2 queen mattresses with about a foot between and along either wall and 2 feet from the front wall to the mattresses (if you push the mattresses all the way against the back wall).

This tent is easy to set up and take down – one person can definitely do it. That said, the instructions are bad, and the pictures on the instructions are useless, so I’d keep the box the tent comes in, you’ll be glad to have the pictures to help figure the tent out. Unless you’re used to this kind of tent, I suggest setting it up at least once before your camping trip since there is a little trial and error involved.

The biggest problem with this tent is ventilation – the tent itself, starting about 2 feet up the walls, is entirely mesh, so if you want any privacy at all, you have to put on the rain cover, but it has no windows, so the only ventilation is the door (only half of it is mesh) and a very small hole in the side that is used to slide coolers in and out. There’s no way to get much breeze, and no crossflow. If you camp in hot areas, I wouldn’t get this tent.

Also, the tent isn’t really 2 rooms – it comes with a very thin nylon divider (about the thickness of a bed sheet) that hangs down the middle of the tent from front to back (right in the middle of the door). It hangs with cords through loops, so there’s about a 6 inch gap all around the divider – it prevents most visibility between the 2 “rooms”, but that’s it. Also, the people in the left “room” have to go into the right “rooom” to use the door of the tent.

The stakes that it comes with a CHEAP. Plan to take some good ones with you if you’re going anywhere at all rocky.

The overhead storage is nice and convenient, but I don’t think it’d hold a lot of weight.

Overall a good tent for a family.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Good Purchase
By John J. Oleary
The tent was very easy to setup and put away. We experienced a full day of rain and had a minor leak, but that was due to user error – we hadn’t wrapped all of the velcro around the poles, causing the rain cover to come into contact with the tent.
We have a family of 5 – two average sized adults – man 180, woman 130, – three children, age 7,3, and 2.

With two queen mattresses, we pretty much used all of the space. I was a little disappointed in the fact that the rear of the tent rose sharply from the floor to the roof, causing us to have to move the mattresses closer to the entrance way, otherwise the people on the two ends would have come into contact with the tent (raincover not over that area too, so could forsee problems).

Ventilation was fine. Without the user error, the tent stayed dry.

Really only a 4 person tent.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Coleman Tent is the best!
By Gale M. Thomason
The tent is spacious and durable with extra reinforcements in the frame and seams. Rain & wind was not a problem when we were camping. We like the many little amenities like the net above the bed which is great to store an extra blanket for when you get cold in the night and the many little net pockets for storage of those small items you don’t want to lose. The main door is extra large which is great to fit our queen size air mattress through.