Best Family Camping Tents "Kelty Screenhouse Basecamp Shelter" 7.9 out of 10. based on 155 ratings
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
nice shelter
By sawdust
I have set up the screen house in the yard just to see if everything is as it should be. True what others said about the sagging roof, although it hadn't rained, I could see that it might be a problem. Here's the fix, there's two rings on each door side above the zippers. The rings are there to hook the roll up shades in the closed position. I just happened to have a two part pole that fit perfectly, length and diameter, slipped it inside the rings and put moderate pressure against the tent with the pole. There's a bunch of tent material at the top of the zippers so the pole isn't going to pop thru the tent. Now I have a pole inside supporting the roof and now can hang things off of it like fruit baskets, lights. Still able to use hooks for the shade. I also brought a silver tarp 8x10 and draped it over the roof to keep out the intense sun. 4 squeeze clamps one on each corner ( door side) and some ball bungies hooked to the side poles made the tarp taught. Great Kelty, just.
needed to improvise for my needs.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Love this shelter
By Bradley S. Carson
My initial impression of the Screenhouse was impressive! Previously, my family had been using a WalMart bought, pop-up shade canopy. The transition to the Screenhouse significantly reduced the cargo capacity needs of our vehicle and significantly increased functionality. Now, when rain, wind, sun, bugs, cold become issues, we simply close up the Screenhouse and the whole family is protected. Additionally, we can now move all car camping gear into the Screenhouse when we depart for the days events with much less worry of damage or disappearance.
Vertical walls on the two door sides and near vertical on the ends. Usefulness of all interior space was incredible!
Overall stability of the Screenhouse was amazing. Between the exoskeleton and the abundant stake-out points, stability was never a concern.
Setup was a breeze. The exoskeleton was easy and very self-explanatory.
Happy wife happy life. Need I say more????