Sierra Designs Moken Tent - 4-Person, 3-Season

I've never wanted to own one of those tents you see in the campgrounds. The type that look like a giant box. They require blue tarps over them to stay dry in a storm. I've always owned lightweight backpacking tents. The kind where the rainfly goes all the way down on the sides. My wife and I have two boys (3 and 1) now and so the time had come to find a bigger tent. I was looking for a tent I could use backpacking and car camping. I was set on the Sierra Designs Lighting XT 4 but chose the Moken 4 because of the price. (I'll buy the Lighting when Sierra Trading Post has it for sale) The moken has the design and look of a backpacking tent. This tent won't look like the rest of the tents at the campground and I'll stay dry in a storm without the blue tarp. At 23 lb this is not a backpacking tent and hence is very roomy when you enter, I'm 6' and can stand in the center. The floor is just a piece of nylon that extends under each of the side rooms a few inches but will do the job of keeping us off the dirt. If the tent is pitched on a high area there shouldn't be any concern of water flowing in the center of the tent. The doors of the side tents don't have a separate mesh door but there is mesh on the back sides of the rooms. There are many storage pockets around the tent. One downside is that the tent must staked very well at the four outside corners to make the tent taught. The build quality is very high. I'm very pleased with my purchase.

This is the best family/group tent that I have ever used. I bought the attic and footprints. It provides separate rooms for parents/kids or couples. It has been the bomb shelter for friends in other tents on MULTIPLE occasion during rain/wind storms. The internal tents are removable making it possible to cook in the tent on the ground w/o flame damage to the tent. As well as, flipping the tents inside out to clean out sand/dirt. There are pockets all over and with the attic you can dry/clip/hang stuff everywhere. The stuff sack is a compression/duffle/backpack rolled into one. It is too big for backpacking but excellent for car/canoe camping. It will be a sad day when this tent is expired.

Great for extended stays or when the big storm hits. Remember to use all those tie outs as this is a biog tent. A tarp makes a great fllor protector for the center OR the side-rooms. A folding table and chairs fit nicely in the main room. Use some military surplus aluminum pegs to really stake this big tent out. The lightweight pegs it comes with are nice but for a smaller tent.

Bought this tent and set it up in the yard. Strangest thing, the floor is not sealed, meaning the sides and floor are NOT connected. And, when you remove the internal "bedrooms" the floor of the tent does not reach all the way to the side of the tent, so you have two places where the ground comes right through. Imagine critters and bugs of all kinds sneaking in through the floor. Yikes! Returned it immediately.