Ozark Trail Tarp Shelter 9×9-FT with UV Protection

The canopy top itself comes with a handy mesh pocket for storing your smaller items. Its 112-inch center height gives you plenty of room to create an entertainment space for your outdoor furniture and guests. Whether you are hosting a barbecue, attending a sporting event, or spending a day at the beach, you will be able to take your 10-foot by 10-foot Ozark Trail Instant Canopy anywhere. The weight of this Ozark Trail is lighter than most of the same size alternative steel frame canopy tents, coming in right about 29 lbs. From a positive perspective, the lightweight design increases portability which is certainly important in carrying the tent to its intended location.

Camping in Gulpha Gorge Campground is limited to a total of 14 consecutive days and a cumulative total of 30 days in any calendar year. Each 14-day consecutive stay must be followed by a minimum of a 7-day break. If you’ve been keeping track, we’re now up to three of the six tents we currently own. Perhaps it’s logical for someone as nomadic as I’ve become to have such wealth in portable homes. Since then we’ve had a whole lifecycle of tents that have taken us from coast to coast and back again.

The Renetto chair usually comes in between 8 and 10 colors and is rated to hold up to 350 pounds. The legs are locked into place with old school metal push button locks, something you won’t see on many modern pop up tents now-a-days. These push locks get very difficult to use over time, especially if the tent is used on the beach and exposed to sand and saltwater, causing rust build up. Many newer tent brands like EZ-Up use revolutionary thumb lock sliders or larger easy to release buttons, which are a much better user experience when setting the canopy up or taking it down. With the push buttons you need to worry about pinching fingers or not being able to release the button when it gets rusted, which is never a pleasant experience.

It’s worth highlighting that despite the advertised dimensions of the 10×10 Ozark Trail, because this is a slant leg shelter the top only measures 8×8. You’ll be able to comfortably fit up to 4 chairs underneath the 64 sq. The benefit of the slanted legs is that these tents are more stable laterally which can increase the stability of the frame and make it less prone to toppling, an important benefit if on a windy beach. Although we always recommend using anchors such as weighted sand bag or stakes with guy lines attached to the top corners.

We’re just deeply committed to arugula and everyday greens & veggies. One, a temporary solution that we’re holding onto for now, but housed us for the first few weeks on our land before our final tent arrived. ozark trail chair Having had such success with our Ozark Trail Blackout Tent, we decided to try one of their other models—the yurt tent. It was fine, but in retrospect, I would have just purchased another Blackout model.

The legs extend to give the top peak a height of about 8’10” which will be plenty of headroom for anyone underneath. Around 2010, when Beau got out of the military, we took a lengthy road trip across the country and through Colorado, Utah, Arizona and back up and east through Wyoming and South Dakota. Because this was the time before cell phone cameras (at least those worth anything) and Google Photos, when our computer crashed in Colorado we lost many early photos from that trip. But, those that remain include this shot of our magical camping spot south of Moab, which we found down a dirt road far south of town after showing up and finding every campsite (and hotel room) in Moab booked.

We think the REI chair functions better and will last much longer than the similar chair from Walmart. But the price difference is significant—and after six months of near-constant outdoor use, the Walmart chair was still in decent shape. If you are looking for an ultracheap choice, the Walmart chair is one. The Chair One is rated to hold up to 320 pounds, versus 250 pounds for the Flexlite and for the third chair we tested, the Alite Monarch Chair (the latter chair is no longer available, as Alite went out of business in late 2019). The GCI Outdoor chair also has a pocket built into the back that can hold a phone or a book. This chair comes in green or blue and is rated to hold up to 250 pounds.

Anecdotally, we found that this chair category in general is more popular among women than among men, who generally prefer a higher, upright seat. “This is the Platonic ideal of your camp chair,” one of our campers gushed. Campsites ozark trail chair at Gulpha Gorge Campground vary in size and can accommodate both tents and recreational vehicles (RV’s). It had taken every material thing that I had and left me stripped bare, a blank page at the end of a partly written book.

ozark trail canopy

It comes in gray or blue, and as of this update it gets 4.7 out of five stars from reviewers on the REI site. The Helinox Chair One weighs about 2 pounds, compresses smaller than a 2-liter bottle of soda, and is the most comfortable and easy to stow of the three top backpacking chairs we tested. Like competing chairs, the Chair One has a nylon and mesh seat and aluminum legs, which are linked with shock cord (the chair legs are made out of the same material as high-end tent poles).

Walk around any campground or tailgate party, and you’ll notice the popularity of this variety of accordion-style seat. You can pick one up at just about any big-box store (sometimes for as little as $10), order one with your favorite sports team’s logo, or pay a premium for a similar model from Cabela’s or REI. This low-profile chair is easy to carry, and it adjusts for uneven ground.