Discover the top winter tents for camping designed to withstand harsh conditions and provide comfort during your chilly ...

A backpacking tent for two people must strike the perfect balance between weight, interior space and weather protection without adding unnecessary bulk to your pack. What works for one group of ...

Welcome to our review of the Nemo Dragonfly OSMO, a premium three-season model sporting a smorgasbord of tantalising design features, including a new proprietary tent material that just keeps on ...

Hyperlite Mountain Gear joins fellow ultralight backpacking gear makers like Durston and Six Moons Design in adding a little bit of extra usability and comfort to its lineup of low weight shelters.

American backpacking gear specialist Zpacks already has one of the world's lightest lineups of tents and shelters, with some single-sleepers that flirt with a mere half-pound (227 g). Its new Duplex ...

The best 2-person backpacking tents are identified and chosen based on in-field experience evaluating tent durability, weather resistance, and comfort. The weight, price, and other features are also ...

I’ve been using the two-person design of this lightweight tent for two years now and I first fell in love with it camping off Riverhead, Long Island. Little did I know when I set out for this trip ...

Over the years, ultralight backpacking has garnered an unfortunate reputation: obsessive, elitist, unsafe, prohibitively expensive. While we could debate the first three (obsessive is the only one I’d ...

I first encountered the ideas of ultralight backpacking in 1994, in an article in now-defunct (and much-missed) Backpacker magazine. It was titled “Less is More,” by Mark Jenkins. (I still have a PDF ...

Spend any time at all researching outdoor gear, whether it's a new tent or a new rain jacket, and you'll quickly find yourself awash in a confusing array of jargon. Silnylon, polyurethane, X-Pac, ...