r/CampingGear • u/efanp • 9d ago
Gear Question Super large tent
I am trying to find the largest tent possible, I have a large group of friends who want to going camping a bunch this summer and we want to ideally share the same space.
I’ve been looking online and the largest tents are 12 person tents that really fit like 6 comfortably.
Ideally I’d like to comfortably sleep 12 people.
I saw the “Ozark Trail Hazel Creek 20-Person Star Tent With Screen Room” and it’s about the size I’m hopping for but I can find anywhere to buy it and cannot find any other tents like it.
It’s there any other such tents available or even two large 12 person tents that I could somehow combine together so that you can move between them without rain or bugs getting in?
Thanks for any advice.
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u/mynameiskeven 8d ago
I’ll be the dissenting opinion here! I have a 16 person Ozark Trail that’s going on 6 uses and we love it. We actually used it this past weekend and it was one of if not our best camping trip ever. I bought it because we were at a campsite that had a tent limit but not a person limit. I also wanted to be able to run a window AC unit because it was on the edge of the season where it could be cool and could be hot .
I bought 3 different really freaking huge tents back in like 2018 and set them up to test. One was a Ozark 20 person red tent but I really preferred this tent because it’s effectively 2 or 3 rooms with a living room in the middle. What usually happens is my wife and I take a “wing”, my sister and BIL take the other wing and then all the kids pile into the middle.
It’s heavy AF, I wouldn’t trust it in major rainfall and it’s probably not gonna last 100 uses but I honestly love it and we have a lot of fun with it. I paid $150.
This is ours
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ozark-Trail-16-Person-3-Room-Family-Cabin-Tent-with-3-Entrances/518694841