12 x 9 ft. Canvas Cabin Camping Tent with Deluxe Awning

I have had this 9x12 with the screen room since 2018. It has seen the worse weather of any tent ive owned in my 30+ years of camping. From the swamps of Francis Marion low country to the, turkey camps of the sand hills into mountains and streams of the Appalachians into blizzards of Iowa. Rock solid. I sold an RV to buy this and dont regret it. Holds heat, holds A/C, and keeps you dry while doing it. used it while camping and trout fishing in torrential downpours and 60mph wind last week with 2 dogs and my family of four (Disco-Beds are crucial too). we had people in other tents stopping by to check out the setup as well as RVers. I've owned so many different tents and other than hand me down military tent halves this has outlasted anything i've owned. KUDOS for still making amazing stuff that can one day be passed along to your children.

I’ve owned two of these, one with the awning and one without. They have both been high-quality, well-made tents. They are well worth the money and will last you for years. I bought the wall enclosures for the awning and it was also well worth it. It can be assembled by one person, but it takes a little thinking ahead. Have guy wires in the ground and ready to hold the corners while you put all the horizontal poles on. Just slip the guy wire off the top in one hand and put the pole underneath every time. Otherwise, it is a cinch with two people.

Love this tent, keeps you dry and comfortable. My only suggestion is to make the awning detachable. It is heavy to put up.

Overall, I am very happy with this cabin tent. It was easy to put up. It's definitely a two-man job. I have a couple small complaints. The horizontal door zipper and the vertical door zipper do not meet flush at the corner. The horizontal zipper is too long by about 3/4 of an inch and leaves of Gap at the closure. Second, I don't really see the need for a second awning. It's inconvenient not to be able to roll the window covering up and down from the inside. Also, it's a far lean from the outside to roll it up and secure it.
The man who helped me put it up had an interesting observation. He thinks that it would be a better design to have the walls slope inward. Yes it reduces floor space but it allows the rain to run off the roof and not Down the Walls of the tent. I agree! Also I live in Hawaii and am living in my tent. The USPS will not ship kiwi Camp dry to Hawaii so I cannot get the sealant for the seams. It would be nice customer service to include a can of the sealant to any of your tents going to Hawaii. We're coming into the rainy season now and so far so good! No leaks! Thank you for a great tent.

This is the first tent that we have had as a family. My wife is renowned for her dedication to sustainable fabrics so getting a nylon or other PVC based tent was not an option. I read all the reviews ahead of time and knew that this tent would be a bear to set up (which it is). The awning is even worse. You need a second person to steady the awning's poles while getting set up otherwise they just collapse in the slightest of breezes. Even with help, it takes a solid hour to set up the tent, the awning, and the awning walls. In short, this is by far the most difficult tent I have ever set up. That being said - totally worth it! The tent itself is amazing in that it has plenty of room for the 4 of us, and I don't have to stoop when moving around. Our first night of camping was full of rain and thunderstorms and the tent never let in a drop of moisture. The enclosed area made by the deluxe awning walls practically doubles the tent's liveable area. Other campers in our area were skeptical of it when they saw how long it took me to assemble, but when it was done the whole campground agreed it was the finest tent they had ever seen. My favorite comment is that the tent "is civilized". Indeed.

I don't like that you have to stake out the tent to the ground otherwise the tent poles don't seat properly. This means I couldn't assemble the tent in the garage post-trip to let it dry out and instead had to anchor and assemble it in the back yard and wait for the rain/temperature/work schedule align long enough for me to be able to disassemble the tent for storage.

In heavy rains the tent and awning will accumulate rainwater on the roof indefinitely. The only way to alleviate this is to use guy wires to hold the awning roof line taut. This will also keep the tent's roof taut and rain won't be an issue.

But again, best tent money can buy. It takes forever to set up and disassemble. But at 118 lbs you aren't taking this backpacking anway. Open a beverage and lean into the zen of tent assembly.