Kelty Teton 2

Seriously, this is the best tent for the money. Can you buy better tents, I'm quite sure you can but you will have to spend easily 2x or 3x as much. Me and my wife took this tent to Grand Canyon for a 4 day backpacking trip, a week long backpacking trip on High Sierra Trail across Sequoia, even used in winter. We also took it to Yosemite and to JTree on a car camping trip even thought it is a little bit small.

We like it over any bigger tents because it is such a breeze to setup (under 3 minutes). If you are on a week long car camping trip it might not matter but if you are doing weekend trip less time playing around with the tent means more time for other fun stuff.

The tent endured high wind (on top of Mt. Whitney), flooding in Yosemite (didn't leak at all even though tent's floor seemed like water bed), crappy weather in Adirondacks ... and couple of years of regular weekend abuse in Gunks.

Ventilation is quite good, no leaks whatsoever, fast to setup, fairly light and quite cheap. Vestibule could be a little bit bigger, as well as it could be a little roomier. It has its minuses (as mentioned in other reviews) but nothing big. Also if you go camping to some of those crowded campgrounds you don't have to worry that somebody will steal your $400 fancy tent ;-).

IMHO: If you don't want to spend $400+ but this one ...

I bought this as a solo tent because of the weight and the fact that kelty usually makes a solid product (also have a gunnison 2.1-great tent!). when it arrived, i found it was everything i needed...but my feet and head lightly touched the end walls when in my sleeping bag. wet bag= no bueno. SOLUTION: the fly that runs high up on the ends is guyed-out dead center- i sewed a tab of doubled over web-strap to the outside of the tent body right where the dark floor meets the light body. used a length of 1/8" shock cord and tied a short loop through the tab and out to the guy line (very modest tension, without depressing the angle of the guy line much). this pulled the end walls out just enough for plenty of head and foot room-problem solved! a little seam seal on the tab i sewed and then tested it on a windy day for a few hours under the sprinkler-no leaks. hey, for just over a hundred bucks-why not!

took this tent out backpacking in the sand dunes of west Michigan. Hiking through sand is tiring by itself without any added weight. This tent was perfect. It's extremely light and compact. It fit perfectly in my overnight pack and was very simple to set up. Luckily we didn't have to test it in stormy conditions but it was perfect for a beautiful summer evening on the beach. I'm 6', 175 lbs my girlfriend is 5'5, 115 lb's and we fit very comfortably. There's plenty of headroom and the large meshed overhead keeps away the claustrophobic feeling. I have a feeling this tent would feel a lot less roomy with the rain fly on but what tent doesn't. The stakes and poles are quality and unless you're going out on the tundra you won't need better stakes. I'll probably be vacuuming sand out of it for the next several months but for the price you can't find a better tent.

This is the first tent I've owned. I'm not a gearhead, but I did my research, and this came in at the top of every list I made.
It's lightweight and an absolute breeze to set up (I try making everything without directions first), rain shield also. I can't really say much about ventilation; the couple of times I've had it out, it's served as a gear tent only. I can, however, swear on it's waterproofing. The first day out, it was rained on, hailed on, treed on and there was not a drop of water anywhere.
I like that the door was up off of the group a bit. That aided unbelievably in all the mud and sludge the Teton ended up sitting in. I'm a smaller person, so I didn't have any problems getting in or out of it.
I can't wait to get this thing out and play more!

Wow. So much tent for so little money! This tent is not made for heavy use, pounding rain and sleet or gusty winds, but it worked in all of those conditions and did a fine job. Space is adequate for two with enough headroom, and Kelty added a free gear loft (though cheap). The tent is very light, but only has a small vestibule (7 feet sq) and a single wall/double wall construction. It comes with guylines, which helps make it taut and ventilate well, but a combination of water and gusting wind allowed water through the underside of the fly. Overall, though it is a great tent for the money. It is probably the cheapest tent with aluminum poles on the market and it was perfect for a college student with a very tight budget. Kudos to Kelty!

I spent about 3 months debating on whether or not I should get this tent and I'm glad I went with this one and not something else. It was easy to set up by myself and there was plenty of room for 2 of us inside the tent. The vestibule was a bit small and I could see that being a problem if you were backpacking and had 2 people's gear to fit there. It stormed badly the first time I used it and had no problems with it leaking and it dried out fairly quickly afterwards.