3-Person A-Frame Tent

I have that exact A frame Ozark Trails. It's great until the rains come. Still use it all the time on quick trips. It's fast to put up, so if you aren't planning on doing anything but sleeping in it, it's my first choice.

I have an ozark trail orange 2-3 person like this one shown and have had it easily 15 years and gets used 2 a year min. Thing is probably made out of polypropylene and chaos chemicals but it works and was 18.88 when i got it so that’s probably 30$ today.

We have a 3 person Ozark trail tent that’s held up for like 10 years now. We do have to set up a tarp over it now as it is now longer keeping the rain out. We just bought their 10 person tent last year. I haven’t tested it out in the rain yet though.

I have this one which has been great so far. It’s really heavy though. I suppose it doesn’t take up a ton of car space - if they got the6 person version (if there is one) that would probably work out fine. There’s always space under a cot to store stuff also.

If you want to be more cost conscious, Walmart brand (Ozark Trail) has fairly decent 3 person tents that hold up pretty well. Particularly given they are 1/2 to 2/3 the cost of a similar Coleman. I’ve been using a 3 person Ozark Trail tent for the past 5 years in a troop setting. Camping 6 to 8 weekends a year.

See if you have a Sierra store nearby. They are ran by the same folks that do TJ Maxx. They are basically an outdoor centric version of a TJ Maxx, with some incredible deals in the camping department. That being said, no need to go fully kitted straight out of the gate. Buy what you can, and upgrade/replace as you can or need to. I grew up camping, my wife did not. She wanted to try it, so I went out and bought a 3 person tent, a couple sleeping bags, and two chairs, all ozark trail brand, from walmart. I got a used coleman stove off of craigslist, and a few small pots and pans from a thrift store. With that, we camped for two seasons before we started replacing it with better kit.