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Top 5 Best Tents for Camping in the Rain

Camping in rain is terrible if you are not prepared with all necessary gears. A waterproof camping tent is one of the very first thing that you must have to take when going on camping in rain.

Therefore, waterproof tent is also necessary because there is no guarantee of rain. So, every time when you go camping, try to pack all the necessary items that will help you protect from any kind of adverse situation.

Today I am going to share top 5 best tents for heavy rain. If you are looking for a heavy duty camping tent to survive in heavy rain, this post will help you find the right tent for the money.

For more detailed information feel free to check this post: https://10scope.com/best-tents-for-rain/. Hope this will help you find the right waterproof tent for camping in heavy rain.

Now, let’s check our review on best camping tents for heavy rain:

Coleman Sundome Tent (2 and 4 Person)

Coleman is one of the renowned brand. They manufacture quality products for outdoorsman at very reasonable price. The Sundome is one of their great invention. This is a heavy duty waterproof tent that comes with several sizes. You can choose 2 person, 4 person or even large 6 person tent from their store.

The tent is made of heavy duty polyester. It has a large interior for storing a lot of items into it. Coleman manufactures different sizes and colors of this tent. So, you can choose your favorite color and size from their store.

Paria Outdoor Products Camping Tent

This is a small size camping tent that comes with the features of rain protection. It can accommodate 2 person inside the tent. In addition to this, you can keep your other items into the tent. There are enough option for ensuring proper airflow inside the tent. So, you can stay comfortably inside the tent.

CORE Camping Tent (10 Person)

Let’s have a look on large camping tent. This is a 10 person camping tent by the popular brand CORE. It comes with a very large interior. More than ten people can easily stay inside this tent. It comes with waterproof feature which ensures safe camping during heavy rain. Overall, it is a great tent for camping in the rain.

MoKo Waterproof Tent

If you are searching for a family camping tent, the MoKo waterproof tent can be a good choice for you. It comes with good construction and waterproof feature. Therefore, it has several doors and windows to ensure proper ventilation inside the tent. This is really the best tent for heavy rain.

TETON 4 Person Camping Tent

Need a medium size tent for camping in rain? The TETON 4 person camping tent is one of my favorite choice when talking about the best waterproof tent. It has the capacity to accommodate 4 person inside the tent. Therefore, it comes in different colors and sizes to choose from. If you plan for a camping trip in adverse condition this tent can help you survive on any difficult condition.

Which one to Choose?

So, you already checked our top 5 best tents for camping in heavy rain. Now, which one you want to choose for your upcoming trip?

If you are a regular camper, you need the best quality tent. In this regard, Coleman Sundome is the perfect option for you.

If you need a large size camping tent for your family, you can go for CORE 10 perosn camping tent.

The above listed tents are made of superior quality materials. So, these are long-lasting for sure. Go and pick the right one that meets your demand.

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Huguenot Park

August 13, 2021 through August 14, 2021

I have been looking forward to writing about this trip since it happened, but I’m only just (about 5 months later) getting around to it. To say that this camping trip was a turning point for us would be an understatement. We learned some of the hardest lessons that you can learn while car camping and we are still recovering from some of the gear losses. By far, the biggest lesson that we had to learn was that it does not matter how good you are at car/tent camping, summer rain storms on a beach are not the place to put your skills to the test.

We got to camp early on Friday for once. The month before, we had to skip our monthly trip because I suddenly had to move out of my apartment and find a new place to live. So this one was important to us. We chose Huguenot Park in Jacksonville, FL for a couple of different reasons. The first being that it was close to home. I had to get a storage unit for all my camping gear since I moved out of my old place. We decided to stay close to home while getting used to that change. Thankful that we did.

It started out as a normal camping trip. We got to the site, figured out how we wanted to set up and then got to work. We were trying out a bunch of near gear including an outside electrical set up, new lights, and a completely new campsite organization system. I bought a couple of hanging organizers for the pop up canopy and the idea was that we were retiring the old system of living out of bins. What this meant was that every piece of gear we had with us was unpacked and stored somewhere on site instead of just staying in a bin while we were out there. Bad idea. But it looked really pretty.

Another change we implemented on this trip was that we were in Jenna’s car instead of mine. Mine was starting to have some problems and we didn’t want to risk driving it out here. Jenna’s car also has way more cargo space and since this was a full electric campsite, we were bringing all of the gear. What this means is that we were starting out with an unorganized car. I love Jenna and she’s my favorite camping buddy, but she is notorious for having a messy car. This type of thing can lead to misplacing and completely losing gear, or in our case this weekend, not being able to pack up and leave camp quickly. The combination of car choice, and poor on-site gear organization lead us to the biggest disaster that we have had to face so far.

The weather was fine at first. We got set up no problem, hung out at camp and perfected our site with no issue. We even walked down to the beach and swam in the water a little and watched the sunset there. By the time we were heading to bed, it had started raining a little off and on and the wind was starting to pick up. We weren’t concerned though. The weather forecast had called for rain and we have plenty of experience camping in the rain. We felt prepared. We even added a little bit of extra tarp coverage over the tent.

The first night was a little bit intense but we survived it. The winds were strong and the rain was steady, but we had created a pretty good tarp system to rainproof the tent and we managed to stay dry. The issues arose when morning came and we began to feel too confident. That's the problem with being in nature. Nature doesn’t care about you. Nature will do what Nature does despite you. And you are never better than Nature.

The rain and wind continued off and on for a few hours that morning. We had to take cover in the tent as the rain and wind picked up. It was fine at first. Not ideal to be scrunched up in our small tent, but better than facing the elements directly. It was okay until the wind ripped down our lean-to tarp cover that we set up over the back of our tent. The back support pole fell over and brought the entire thing down until it was resting on the roof of the tent. Not good. The thing with tents is that the walls are water resistant or water-wicking. Meaning they repel water until something touches it and then the water can travel freely through it. Once our tarp fell on top of our tent water started pouring onto my cot by the bucket full.

We thought as quickly as we could and moved everything to Jenna’s bed which seemed to be remaining dry. We also moved everything from up off of the ground in the tent. Water continued to pour in from on top of us, so I decided that I should remove the tarp from on top of the tent in an attempt to stop the water from coming in. The sides of the tent were now vulnerable too since our cots didn’t fully fit in the tent and they touched the sides, allowing water to enter the tent that way too. So the items on Jenna's bed were getting wet. While I was outside taking the tarp down (and shoving into the car) Jenna was doing her best trying to keep everything dry inside the tent. I got back in with her and noticed that even more water was getting in than before. I saw a rip in the corner where my cot was resting, a rip in the ceiling, and a rip along the zipper at the entrance. This tent was done and it was causing us more problems in this rain storm than it was solving. We only had one option left. Evacuate.

We have never had to evacuate a site before. We knew that it was always a possibility and we were always sure to be prepared to do so, but mainly for human threats or animals, never weather. We never thought that we would be running loose gear from the tent to the car through mud, but here we were.

First we moved the electronics. The items that would be completely destroyed if soaked. Next, our bedding and clothes. These were already soaked from wrongly assuming the cots were a safe place inside the tent, but they could be washed and dried no problem. Finally, we shoved whatever else would fit in the car. We had the car packed to the brim and we ourselves were drenched. We got in the front seat and finally had a moment to breathe. We assessed the situation and tried to lower our heart rates. We had almost everything just thrown in the car and most of it was completely soaked. The things we didn’t have in the car were the tent, the pop up, the outside string lights, the cots, and the kayaks.

We figured the tent was a lost cause. But the cots inside could probably be dried out and saved later. They could act as a paper weight for the tent in the meantime so the broken tent didn’t go flying around the campground. I worried about the pop-up canopy and basically just hoped it wouldn’t come apart and fly around either. The kayaks were fine. I only worried about them getting stolen if we left the camp. And finally the rope lights. I had JUST bought those and this was the first camping trip we were getting to try them out. They were water proof though and I just had to hope that the advertising was correct and that they would be fine.

As we sat in the car and assessed the conditions of everything, a man in a pickup truck was driving around telling everyone that the road was about to be flooded and that if you were planning on leaving the campground because of the storm that you needed to do so right away. So we decided to leave. We had most of our stuff and we weren’t all that far from home.

The issue at hand though was now how were we going to get all this gear dried out and safe? I didn’t have a garage anymore. The gear lived in a storage unit and I couldn’t put wet gear away in a closed storage unit. The next time I’d open it up it would smell so bad. Luckily, my storage facility had a giant indoor loading dock area. So we decided to drive all this wet gear there and put away anything that was dry enough and take the super wet stuff back to my house.

It wasn’t all that bad once we got through everything at the storage unit. There were a few things that obviously had to come back to my house for further drying. Namely, the chairs and anything else with fabric. But anything that was mostly metal or plastic, had dried out in the car or was toweled down in the loading dock.

We got the rest of the stuff back to my house and set it up in my shower or on my balcony to dry. My friend Myk met us there and rode back with us to the campsite once it looked like the rain was dying down. It was a silent ride out there while we wondered what kind of disaster we were gonna pull up to. Much to our surprise though, it wasn’t all that bad. The canopy and tent were still standing, the kayaks were still exactly where we left them, and the rain had slowed to a steady drizzle.

The three of us got to work fast. We folded the cots up and put them in the car. We Separated the cover from the frame on the pop up canopy and put those in the car, and we wrapped up the rope lights. The tent was disassembled and put in the trunk and the kayaks were mounted to the roof. We were all wet again, but everything was cleaned up nicely. We stopped at the dumpster on our way out to lay the tent to rest and say our final goodbye. We then headed home to finish unpacking and cleaning gear.

The following month we would do a gear day at Jenna’s house to completely re-do our packing process and start leaning much heavier on the individual pack than ever before. Huguenot completely changed the way we camp and we will continue to feel the anxiety of bringing all the gear with us. It will be seven months before we do a “glamping” trip like that again. We stuck to “dry camping” for the rest of the fall of 2021. This way we only had to bring our hiking packs and the small amount of gear needed for the dry sites (no electricity or potable water).

Needless to say, this trip was, hands down, our worst (Jenna argues second worst), but the lessons we would take away from it would prove to be priceless. It just goes to show that Nature doesn’t care about you and you are never as prepared as you think you are.

Stay Dirty,

Stone.

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