REI Co-op - Wonderland 6

REI Wonderland, it's the successor to the Kingdom model. Lots of ventilation and allows for the mud room add one.  https://www.rei.com/product/202982/rei-co-op-wonderland-6-tent

Honestly if you see your self using this for multiple years why not buy a quality tent and be done with it??. You could buy the ozarj this year and have that deteriorate then a Coleman and have that lad a couple. You could do all that or just buy a good quality tent. A tent like this…. https://www.rei.com/product/202982/rei-co-op-wonderland-6-tent Can last many years and will be quite comfortable for your family of course unless there are more than like 4 people. I had a similar one from LL Bean that I bought before my daughter was born and it cost me $500 back in like 2004. I still have and use it all the time. Before you say it I am not rich and actually you could almost call me poor but I get buy. I simply consider myself too poor to buy something I use as much as that cheaply. Buy once cry once is my philosophy.

If you catch the Wonderland X on sale it's like the older, Ivy League version of the Kingdom line. I don't know much about Canvas tents, newer materials may have changed things but when I last camped in one (over 20 years ago) if it was wet and you touched it you would get wet. It would basically hold water and not allow a flow through, but if you touched it that held water would wick onto you. Had to make sure you weren't close to the walls when sleeping or you could make contact and wake up wet. They to breathe very well unlike plastic tents so mesh isn't quite as needed as the fabric (when not wet) will allow vapor through.

If I understand correctly, the Wonderland X is basically the same tent at the Kingdom 6, but with a very different way of erecting the tent. With the Wonderland X, you setup the rainfly and then the tent, again - about the same size as the kingdom 6, hangs from the rain fly. I bought one and thought it was a reasonably clever idea. Initially I liked it. But I quickly found that the thing was a friggin' sail that just wanted to head south to the tropics unless the weather was almost dead calm. Even with 16 guy lines I ended up with two bent poles in just four or five trips. And the pegs for the guy lines are worthless unless you're in good soil, which is often not the case. So I took advantage of REI's return policy and took that one back.

Check out the Wonderland series from REI. Mine withstood hurricane Debbie last year. Plenty of headroom plus they included some nice mesh pockets along the walls to maximize the vertical storage. It's a little much for one person but I usually pack heavy so it's nice to be able to fit EVERYTHING in the tent and not have to change lying down.

We tried a Kodiak canvas tent and traded it for an REI Wunderland (or whatever it’s called). The canvas one took up massive space in the truck. It’s huge folded up. It’s heavy af. The REI huge one was perfect.

I bought a Wonderland and one of the poles broke in two the very first time I set it up. Thankfully we weren't out in the woods yet but that was a pretty shitty thing to have happen the day before we left. On a $400-500 tent I expected better from REI, but at least now I know to stay away. We ended up going with the Marmot Halo 6 based on a lot of recommendations here and elsewhere, and that has been fantastic. It's big, roomy, I can stand up fully at 6 feet tall, and it's simple to set up. It fits two cots without issue. Plus it has a big vestibule for storage and a full rainfly for weather coverage. That thing went through a hailstorm on our first trip and handled it without any problems. Highly recommend.

In that price range my top two would either be a Wawona or the REI Wonderland. Both have space to stand up inside, more roomy design that the Base Camp style l, and do great in even super rough weather with a couple guy-lines staked out. Go for at least a 4P, but we have a 6P, and it was worth it the few times we've been stuck inside it for hours waiting out a heavy rain storm.