Rachel Bennett

The best tent for family camping overall is the Coleman Sundome, because it pitches in about ten minutes, holds two queen air mattresses inside 100 square feet, and its WeatherTec welded corners and inverted seams keep rain out night after night. It is also the pick with the deepest owner history of any tent in … Read more

The best backpacking tents for two people are not the ones with the longest spec sheets. Our overall winner is the Clostnature 2-Person Backpacking Tent, because it pairs two D-shaped doors and two vestibules with a 5000mm polyurethane coating and full mesh walls at a weight that splits comfortably between two packs. That is the … Read more

There is one thing nobody tells you before you spend a weekend sleeping in your truck bed, and it is the reason more people return truck bed tents than any other piece of car camping gear. Once the tent is pitched, your truck is parked. You cannot drive it. You cannot move 200 feet to … Read more

A 4 season tent is a shelter engineered for winter use: stronger poles, heavier waterproof fabric, minimal mesh, and a steep-walled shape that sheds snow and resists sustained wind. It does not create heat. It blocks drafts, sheds precipitation, and traps still air, while your sleeping bag and pad do the actual warming. That distinction … Read more

Most weekend trips do not fail because of the drive, the weather or the fire ban. They fail because a camper arrives Friday evening with a darkening sky and forty minutes of pole assembly in front of them. The best instant tents for weekend camping solve that specific problem, and nothing else. Our team spent … Read more

The TETON Celsius XXL is the best sleeping bag for cold weather for most people, because it pairs a 0F rating with a 90 by 39 inch rectangle that real sleepers actually fit inside. One rule matters more than any other here: a published temperature rating is a survival limit, not a comfort rating. A … Read more

Side sleeping puts your whole body weight through two points: your shoulder and your hip. On a thin camp pad those points meet the ground directly, and the result is the numb arm and bruised hip that wrecks the morning after an otherwise good trip. The fix is loft, and the short answer to what … Read more

A standard camp chair is usually rated somewhere between 225 and 250 pounds, which means if you are heavier than that you are permanently riding at or past the edge of what the frame was designed to hold. That is where wobble, fabric sag and slow joint loosening start, long before anything actually snaps. The … Read more

Here is the short answer: the Coleman Outdoor Folding Table is the best portable camping table for most tailgaters, because a 27.6 inch aluminum slat top on a steel frame rolls into a duffel, opens in seconds, and carries a 100 lb load rating straight onto a tailgate. If you cook on a 22 inch … Read more

Every winter, the same question lands in our inboxes: which bike trainer should I actually buy? The answer is not one machine. It is a wheel-on stand with a magnetic dial if you ride twice a month, an electromagnetic wheel-on unit if you follow structured workouts, a direct-drive trainer if you want app-controlled resistance and … Read more