Gazelle Tents - T3 Hub Tent

I’ve been camping for 30 years and I’m a huge fan of our Gazelle brand pop up. With little kids including a baby who doesn’t like to be put down, it’s a huge time saver!

Hahaha I have never experienced that. It’s a regular tent that is waterproof and rainproof, let alone bug proof.

We had a trunk tent for almost 2 years. The main thing we couldn't get over was the limited airflow. Ended up hardly ever using it attached the vehicle. Once it fell apart, we went with a pop up tent like a gazelle for ease of setup and best of all, not 4 sided. That way you can setup a table in the middle and still get around, or set up multiple tables on the walls with tons of room.

I have a gazelle T3. I camped on a beach through a decent storm, 20-30mph winds roughly. It was definitely moving around a lot, but it held up with big long aftermarket stakes and tight guy lines. There’s 8 anchor points around the bottom and four guy line anchor points to support the sides. Edit: yes the doors are a little annoying to step out of.

Gazelle tents will have something to fit your needs… They are bulky but nice, my wife and i use a variant of the T3… We also nixed the idea of a rtt, too many pitfalls…

Started with the t3 and liked it so much I got a T4 as well.

I also have seperate setups for backpacking vs car camping. Nowadays ultralight backpacking gear is so expensive and thin, that using it for car camping is a waste of its limited durability. These thin materials only have a finite lifespan on them. Given your height, a Gazelle T3 or T4 would work well, those style of tents will have the highest headroom and usable space. They pack up pretty large though, so it depends on your vehicle space.

Gazelle t3 or the 4. Awesome tents and extremely easy to put up alone. The biggest drawback is you will need to mount to the rails on your vehicle. Unless you got a pickup.

I use a gazelle hub tent.  

How many people are you traveling with? If it's just you, or you and another person who is not huge, just setup a sleeping platform in the 4Runner. Tents that setup on the ground but attach the the vehicle have always felt kinda gimmicky to me, and to some degree the worst of both worlds. If you don't sleep in the rig just get a quality fast deploy ground tent like the Gazelle.

Gazelle would be the way to go. It's a hub tent, so all you have to do is unfold it and pop out the sides and roof. Then stake and guy out like normal. I use cam straps which are even easier. Gazelle doesn't have a 6 person, so 8 person T4 plus is what you would be after, or the 7 person T-Hex Hub Tent. Insanely easy to deploy, just long and heavy. I have the T8 (discontinued) and the T4. Both have treated me very well.

Every time we set the gazelle up someone asks about it. I think 3 or 4 couples have bought one after seeing ours. T4 is perfect for a couple with a dog. Air mattress or two cot setup would work great and there are two doors so you don’t have to step over each other to use the head in the middle of the night.