NEMO Equipment - Aurora Highrise 6P

Is the tent the only item you want/need to buy? Do you have the rest of your camping kit dialed in? What makes you interested in a Springbar tent? Are you considering their big canvas options? Personally - I don't want a canvas tent. They are bulky to pack and hard to setup. Maybe if I was in 1 spot for a month long adventure, or I was camping long-term in the winter. If I had a solid budget for a tent - I'd get something like this: * [https://www.rei.com/product/202982/rei-co-op-wonderland-6-tent](https://www.rei.com/product/202982/rei-co-op-wonderland-6-tent) * [https://www.bigagnes.com/collections/car-camping-tents/products/big-house-six](https://www.bigagnes.com/collections/car-camping-tents/products/big-house-six) * [https://www.marmot.com/p/halo-6-person-tent/SP\_220055/AFS\_889169250958.html](https://www.marmot.com/p/halo-6-person-tent/SP_220055/AFS_889169250958.html) * [https://www.thenorthface.com/en-us/p/bags-and-gear/camp-shop-829877/wawona-6-tent-NF0A8BDV](https://www.thenorthface.com/en-us/p/bags-and-gear/camp-shop-829877/wawona-6-tent-NF0A8BDV) * [https://www.nemoequipment.com/collections/tents/products/aurora-highrise](https://www.nemoequipment.com/collections/tents/products/aurora-highrise) * [https://www.snowpeak.com/collections/4-6-person/products/alpha-breeze](https://www.snowpeak.com/collections/4-6-person/products/alpha-breeze) All under $1000, plenty of money to save for a new cooler, set of chairs, canopy, cook setup, or other important gear.

Yeah this is what I've got too. Used it for the first time last year (what a year to test it out) and it worked phenomenally. Really couldn't recommend it enough

We have the Nemo Aurora High Rise 6 person tent and absolutely love it. It's really tall so I can stand up in it (5'10") and my partner can stand up in the middle (6'4"). The rain fly is great and we've camped in some serious rain with no issues. It's a little above your price point but it was worth it! Very simple to put up - it might take some practice to do with one person though.

We've got a Nemo Aurora High Rise 6 and we love it. We're both tall (6'4" and 5'10") and we can both stand up in it. It's got enough room for the two of us, a queen size air mattress, and our very large dog. It's really easy to set up and as a bonus it's a really pretty tent. If the 6 person is too much space I think the 4 person is just as tall.

REI outlet has them on sale to within the $400 budget right now too https://www.rei.com/product/200654/nemo-aurora-highrise-6p-tent

I’ve used the 6 person while camping in the desert with high winds 30+ mph and it held up just fine. Winds were expected so we put out all the guy lines. It still flapped in the wind but I’ve spent nights in worse tents.

I have the Nemo Aurora Highrise. I'm very happy with the features and roominess. It's too often overlooked, especially in larger than 2 man tents but I love a vestibule. I want a place to put my shoes and hiking gear outside the tent but not wake up to them filled with rainwater.

I had never heard of them before I was looking for a roomy tent to take a non-camper but I love my Nemo Aurora Highrise 6 person tent. Lots of amenities and well thought out. I like having the vestibule to keep shoes dry if it rains.

I use two LxW mega mats for my partner and I. I love it, a queen set of sheets fits it almost perfectly and holds the mats together. I choose to get two instead of the duo because I solo camp sometimes still, you also don’t feel it when your partner rolls over and you can each adjust the firmness of your mat to your individual liking. We have a Kodiak flexbow 10x14 and a Nemo aurora highrise 6 man (I wish I’d gone with the wawona 8 man instead🤷🏻‍♀️) We camp with two larger dogs (70 & 85lbs)

We have the Nemo Aurora Highrise 6 and like it quite a bit. There is good headroom and plenty of space for two cots, a couple of chairs and our gear. It goes up and comes down fairly quickly and easily. We also have the footprint and the straps are color-coded (yellow and blue) so it's pretty foolproof. I like having a vestibule on both doors. Shoes get left in front and maybe TMI, but we use the back vestibule as our nightime bathroom, keeping a bucket with toilet seat lid filled with horse bedding pellets in there. It's very convenient to not have to get even semi-dressed to wander about a dark campground. Something you would not like is going in and out of the tent. You have to stoop to fit under the vestibule and at the same time lift your legs about 5 inches to step over the door frame. My husband is about 5'11" and he usually cusses a bit while entering and exiting. Also, as with many tents, the bag it comes with is too dang small to fit everything back in easily. We bought a big canvas bag to carry it all in. We're in Colorado and like camping up in the mountains, in the spring and fall also. It's gotten crowded and hard to get into the national parks here in the summer. After going through a snowstorm on our last trip, we ordered a canvas White Duck Regatta Bell 13' tent to use on colder trips. (We'll still use our Nemo in summer; the bell tent won't be breezy enough.) You might look into a canvas tent that can take a stove jack if you have any interest in the shoulder seasons. The Springjack 140 looks big but pretty good as an all-around, do everything tent IMO. Canvas tents are heavy but that's not a deal-breaker when car camping.

My husband and I have this tent too and we love it. It's roomy and tall and the vestibules are handy. We've had it up in a snowstorm too and it held up. However, we were cold; it is not a 4 season tent. It is simple to put up, although we've always worked together when setting up the two main poles. I did take it down by myself this week when we made a decision to leave a little early and were trying to pack up quickly. :-)

I would consider a 6 person to give them plenty of room. Since they're older, I would look for tents with 1) room to stand up inside and 2) no need to step up over the bottom of the door -or- to duck under the edge of the door to go inside. My husband and I like our 6 person Nemo Aurora Highrise BUT it doesn't follow rule 2. We have to step over the bottom of the door frame and duck when entering. It gives my husband a lot of grief. Our new White Duck 13' canvas bell tent lets us just walk in which is awesome. However, canvas takes some extra care and it was pricey so I wouldn't recommend that for their new boat target. :-D

Short answer: traditional. By the question, I'm assuming you will be car camping rather than backpacking. What weather/seasons do you intend to be camping in? We have a traditional 6 person Nemo Aurora highrise and it's been a great tent for us for summer. (Inside height is 6' 5".) We've decided we want to do more early spring and late fall camping up in the mountains so recently bought a 4m canvas bell tent with a stove jack. The Nemo is already a tight fit in campgrounds with the tent pads delineated with timbers that you'll find in a lot of campgrounds. If you're planning to camp in those and/or during peak camp seasons, I would lean toward traditional and stay within the 4 to 6 person size. (8 person is more likely to give the height you want but will put you into the too-large footprint issue you'll have with a Yurt.) We're figuring that we'll be better able to find the large tent campsites the bell tent will require in the off seasons but we'll need the Nemo for a lot of situations still.

We recently bought a White Duck 13' Regatta Bell. We already have a Nemo 6 person tent that's perfectly good for warm weather camping, but we were looking for something that with a stove jack that would hold up well for a spring/fall snowstorm or two in the mountains. It's not yet the season for it, but we had it up in the backyard for seasoning and we were impressed with the quality of the materials, stitching, zippers, guy lines, etc. IMO it goes up easily. There was plenty of room inside for a stove and our two cots and it has good height. We are going to replace some of the stakes. Half of them are heavy duty, but the other half are the typical cheap, crappy, easily bent stakes. It fits well in the bag, but be warned, it's darned heavy and bulky. My husband loves the entrance pole that gives us something to hang onto while we're taking off our shoes at the doorway. It's much harder getting in and out of our Nemo. The White Duck is such a pleasure in comparison.

Nemo Equipment tents are very high quality. Unfortunately, their 6-person car camping tent is currently on backorder. These tall multi-person dome tents really need to be staked down securely because they don't do well in brisk wind so that is why I suggest a premium tent manufacturer like Nemo if you are set on a dome. Unfortunately, premium tent manufacturers charge a premium price but will have made design decisions to handle common tent issues such as resilience against strong winds. Currently, I have the discontinued REI Kingdom 6 which I can set up and take down by myself but I have only used it in the wooded East. I really like that 2 room tent. I bought the additional gear garage that attaches to it. That being said, I probably would not even try to use it in the West where strong winds are common. I have "sand stakes" that hold the tent in place when filled with rocks but your poles can still flex to the point of bending or even breaking. After writing the above text, I found the Nemo Aurora 6 person on Amazon from a Japanese Exporter that was discounting it probably to get out of the US market so I bought it to leave at a location in the west. After writing the above sentence about 10 days ago, I noticed on Amazon that the Japanese Exporter realized that the Nemo Aurora 6 is on backorder on the Nemo Equipment website so they have raised the price of their Aurora 6 tent by $200 and a second Japanese Exporter is now selling their inventory for the same elevated price. Fortunately my tent has been shipped and the seller has not tried to get more money out of me but they must have thought about it because they took 8 days to finally ship it.

I own both the Nemo Aurora Highrise 6 and the discontinued Kingdom 6 (divided into 2 rooms and has an additional gear garage) I like them both. The Nemo is lighter (only 1 room). Any tall tent is going to potentially have issues in gale force winds. I have heard that the REI tent may be particularly susceptible to high wind. I see a REI Kingdom 6 tent for sale on Facebook Marketplace at half of the price I purchased it new. The Nemo tent is a new introduction and will not likely be found used.

I am talking about gale force winds not minor breezes. I have camped on the edge of the north rim of the Grand Canyon in the primitive area of the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument and watched the wind "fold" my Kelty SUV tent (has no floor so acts like a sail) almost in half. I use my Kelty when I move frequently (and sleep in my car) rather than stay someplace for at least 3 nights. Eventually, in the middle of the night, I exited my bed in my car and shut my car door on some of the tent material to make sure it did not go over the rim into the Grand Canyon. One of the aluminum poles now has an additional bend in it but that has not adversely affected my use of the Kelty. I have experienced even greater winds in the Colob Canyon section of Zion National Park (2 weeks ago) but fortunately I had no tent set-up there. I was set up in the only campground open in the NP on the opposite side of Zion. So far, none of my tall tents have had to experience those high winds. I have many stakes and guy lines for my tents (shepherd hook, steel screw type and Kelty sand stakes that also hold fairly sizeable rocks). Eventually as I keep camping in the windy SW of the US, my regular tall tents (with floors) will be subjected to gale force winds. This coming June, I camp throughout New England so maybe I will experience those winds along the Maine coast. Since I will be on the move throughout New England and frequently staying in different friends houses, I may only bring my SUV tent and may not have the opportunity to test out my regular tall tents. The storage bags of both the Kelty and the regular tents are "large" so I have to choose one. I can set up both tents by myself. GearLab claims that my Nemo equipment tent requires 2 people to set up. Well, I have set it up repeatedly by myself and it gets easier every time I pitch it. Any tent is easier to set up with help but it is not required to have help to pitch the Nemo tent. I am 5'7" so maybe someone who is several inches shorter would struggle getting the rainfly over the top of the dome.

I just bought the Aurora Highrise 6. I actually asked Nemo about how it would do in strong winds because my Kelty SUV tent does very poorly in strong winds but it does not have a floor; it acts like a sail in high wind. Nemo said stake the Aurora highrise down really well and to point it into the wind. I am not quite sure what that means. I bought extra shepherd hook stakes that are thin and pointy like nails to utilize in addition to the regular stakes that came with the tent. The ground in Utah and Arizona is so hard and full of rocks that you can't hammer into the ground the ordinary "fat" tent stakes. I also bought sand stakes to fill with rocks to hold down my new tent if I can't hammer into the ground any stakes. The Aurora Highrise tents are 3 season so even using the rain fly, they are not going to keep you warm in the winter; your sleeping bag, extra blankets and sleepind pad are going to have to keep you warm so bring a good winter sleep system if you plan on camping in the winter in your Aurora Highrise 4.

I will be setting up my Nemo Aurora Highrise tonight at Zion National Park, I will report on how it did and if the windows are zippered. If they are, maybe you can exchange yours for a zippered version.

I have set it up and the inner flap that covers the window mesh that can't be opened is only held closed by toggles. I am sorry, I just didn't pay attention when I set it up the first time. Considering that the sides with the windows are not covered by the rain fly, I now understand your concern. That being said, I have 2 old Nemo Engineering backpacking tents and 4 Nemo sleeping bags (different temperature ratings) and I have been pleased with their quality so far. I trust there is a reason they designed the windows as they did. The rain flys do fully cover my older and much smaller Nemo tents so the fact that this one does not must be due to reported user experience. It is going to be in the lower 30s F at night during my entire camping trip at Zion and Bryce Canyon. It will be interesting to see if I have my sleep system dialed in or if I freeze my but off.

My Nemo Highrise 6 was not subjected to any high winds in the Zion NP Watchman campground during my latest trip. It is definitely a 3 season tent. I used it with both its ground cloth and its rain fly. I may have noticed a difference of a few degrees between the inside of the tent and outside of the tent before the sun was mostly overhead. Once midday came, the temperature difference inside and outside the tent was more pronounced. If it had been a 4 season tent, I think the tent would have contained more of the heat that my body generated. I love all the room it offered. It was mostly dry inside. Some water droplets between the rain fly and the mesh ceiling of the tent did occur as the frost on the exterior of the tent melted. There is 2 - 3 inch gap between the rain fly and the mesh ceiling. I walked around with a paper towel inside the tent and absorbed the droplets to prevent drops from hitting my bed and other stuff like toilet paper sitting around. I had used a camp carpet underneath my cot to help disperse the weight from the cot with me in it and to help keep my body heat a little more in the tent and to provide a warmer surface to walk on. I have since bought a second camping carpet to have full coverage of the tent floor. I think the tent is a very good one but it definitely is not designed for winter camping. There is no vent hole for a diesel heater or wood burning stove. The rainfly does not fully cover all sides (80% coverage). The side windows would be blocked if it did. The tent rain fly creats a short awning over the side windows instead of covering them. The tent is definitely designed for ventilation and to watch the sky in dry weather. I do have a 4-season tent (Nemo Kunai) that I bought about 10 years ago but it is a 2-person backpacking tent and not what I want to use for car camping. I only kept warm in the sub-freezing night time temperatures because I wore every down article of clothing that I brought plus wool socks and gloves to bed. I also covered my sleeping bag with 2 down blankets and a wool blanket. My Sierra Designs Frontcountry 20 zipperless sleeping bag (the precursor to the Zen Bivy line) did not actually meet its 20F rating. But after getting into wool leggings, a fleece tunic, dancers ripstop warm up pants, down pants and one of my two amazing down jackets that I brought, it kept me toasty along with the 3 blankets that I mentioned earlier. I was also warm getting out of bed when using my portable camp toilet. I have since purchased a 12V electric blanket that only draws 50W that I will try out in the future replacing at least one if not both of my slippery down blankets. My next camping trip in about 2 weeks will be a more mobile trip around Moab. Since I will relocate every night, I will sleep in my car using the air mattress set-up I have for my backseat so it may be a couple of months before I breakout the Aurora Highrise again. It will be much warmer then as well. Outdoor experts have reviewed the North Face Wawona 6- Person tent as superior to the Nemo Equipment Aurora Highrise. Reviewers really love that tent. I like the stretched out assembly of the Wawona tent creating an extended porch. I may have preferred it over my Nemo Aurora if I had read about it before I bought the Nemo. I don't think there is any other 3-season tent I would have considered besides those two.

I utilized a 3 inch mattress topper on top of the cot. I have a very portable cot that breaks down pretty small so its surface is very taut without padding. I have to add padding on it or it would be intolerable to sleep on. Since the rolled 3 inch topper takes a lot of room in my car, I am now considering utilizing the Nemo Tensor inflatable pad instead which packs up incredibly small the next time I utilize my cot. The Meno Aurora windows are the same mesh as the ceiling except it has covers for those windows material that that are held in place closely (direct contact) with toggles. The mesh roof that the rain fly covers is 2 inches away. I am not sure that high wind would be more of a problem intruding through the windows or through the large mesh roof. The Aurora Highrise is precisely that, high, I personally believe that very high wind would be more problematic with the tents height rather than the windows. I have seen how gale force winds bend long alumunim poles on a tall tent when I camped on the edge of the North Rim of the Grand Cayon in the Parashant National Monument! This tent is all about ventilation. I personally like the discontinued REI Kingdom 6 that I bought about 8 years ago (during a 2-year equipment buying spree) because it has 2 separate rooms and a separate add-on equipment garage but it is reputed to do poorly in gale force winds and it weighs more and packs down bigger than the Nemo Aurora. I can pitch them both by myself but the Nemo is a little easier. The REI Kingdom 6 is not as well ventilated as the Nemo Aurora which would be more problematic in the extreme heat.

I got the Nemo highrise 6p and it’s excellent. Add some orange screw stakes and you’re set.