Columbia Badger Creek 4 Person Sport Dome Tent (10- Foot by 10.5- Foot) with Free Shipping, Review Offering a lightweight and compact design that comfortably sleeps up to five campers, Columbia’s Badger Creek tent is ideal for weekend camping adventures with family and friends. Setup is simple and quick although a full fly will maintain you dry from unexpected wet weather.

Columbia’s history starts with Gert’s parents, Paul and Marie Lamfrom, when they fled Germany in 1937. They bought a small hat distributorship in Portland, Oregon, and named it Columbia Hat Business, after the river bordering the city. Soon frustrated by poor deliveries from suppliers, the Lamfroms decided to begin manufacturing products themselves. In 1948, Gert married college sweetheart Neal Boyle, who joined the household company and later took the helm with the growing business. When Neal suddenly died of a heart attack in 1970, Gert enlisted assist from Tim, then a college senior. Read the rest of this entry

Buy and Save Swiss Gear Montreaux 10 Person Family Dome Tent (Sage/Light Grey/Orange) with Free Shipping, Review We bought this tent for our first camping trip with our three girls. The tent is massive! We were able to put in two full air mattress and a pack and play in the back section and still acquired the entire front empty. There is a room divider that you can use to separate the back portion from the front and that was useful for us when we had been trying to get our baby to take a nap. There is a small flap for you to run electric into the tent which also helped because we ran a fan in there to assist drown out campground noise and get the little one to sleep. I’ve camped for several years and had a couple tents. The only thing I didn’t like is when whenever you open the windows they just hang down. My other tents you could roll them up and tie them so they were out of the way.
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Buy Columbia Bugaboo II Geo Dome Tent (12 x 6.16 x 9 feet) & Foot Lockers On Sale with Free Shipping, Review We bought the Columbia Bugaboo II tent as a gift for our son’s birthday, based on the other critiques regarding the ease of putting the tent up and also the size. I am glad that my first attempt on placing it together was at house (inside) and not at a campground, because if anyone would have observed my spouse and I attempting to put this thing up, you would have laughed. I love Columbia and also the quality of the tent appears to be in line with its other goods. The tent is very big and roomy and it ought to be lots of room for myself, spouse, & 2 children when we do some glorified camping within the next month or so. Another post may follow after out first family adventure.

We’ve been campers for 30 years and have had a number of tents, so I knew what I was looking for. It has fantastic ventilation, as others have noted. This is important to us, as we do a great deal of beach and warm weather camping. Read the rest of this entry