With the entire rainbow of family camping tents available at seemingly every other store on the planet, it can, at first, seem hard to try and choose the right one for your family. But you can greatly narrow the search down if you keep common sense and these tent-hunting tips in mind.

How Often Do You Camp?

In choosing your family camping tent, ask yourself just how often does your family camp? Do you camp every weekend, only a week a year, or what? The longer your family normally camps, the sturdier your family camping tent has to be. If you only camp a couple weeks of the year, then does it really matter how spiffy and sturdy your family camping tent has to be? Get it from Kmart or a similar store and don’t worry about it. Go on to the next camping article on this website. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there will be all sorts of topics for you to choose from. Have a nice life.

Where Do You Camp?

Now that we got the wanna-bees out of the way, let’s get down to the nitty gritty of selecting a family camping tent. In other words, what do you want the tent to protect your family from? Rain, wind, snow, other people, falling limbs, nosy rangers, the police, what? That will define the parameters of what you are looking for. There are thin family camping tents only good for warm weather and those that can be used up on Mt. Everest. The more you want to stay warm and dry, the more you will have to pay.

Although your family might be clamoring for the spiffy features and colors of the latest family camping tent in a catalogue, ignore them. Function first, then form are your priorities. And if it seems more economical, consider getting two smaller tents rather than one large family camping tent so you can get some sleep. The more people in a tent, the more chance of you being woken up by snores or flying limbs.

Colors

Tents come in wacky colors. If you are camping in really far out of the way places like mountainsides, then consider getting a brightly colored family camping tent in case rescue helicopters need to find you. But if you are camping in a campground or relatively near civilization, get muted colored tents that blend in the background, such as Khaki or tan. If you are hiding from the police, then you definitely want a tent that blends into the surroundings as much as possible.