Most truck bed tent campers think about food storage the way they think about everything else on a camping trip: adequately. A soft-sided cooler with ice, food bags in the truck bed, snacks in the tent pocket. It works fine until the morning the cooler has been visited overnight, or the bag of trail mix…
77% of campers bring their families along. If you own a pickup truck and have been doing truck bed tent camping solo or with a partner, the question of whether the format works with kids is a natural next step, and the answer is more practical than most people assume. Truck bed tent camping with…
Kodiak Canvas occupies a different tier of the truck bed tent category entirely. Where most competitors build around lightweight nylon or polyester and threaded fiberglass poles, Kodiak builds with 100% cotton duck canvas and a 3/4-inch steel tube frame, a heavier, more expensive, and by owner accounts, dramatically more weatherproof approach. The company’s truck tent…
Sleeping well in a truck bed tent is not automatic. The first night often produces a passable result; you slept, technically. The third or fourth trip, after applying what you learned on the first two, produces something genuinely better than a hotel room. The gap between those two experiences is almost always explained by the…
Summer is when truck bed tent camping is most popular, and for good reason: long days, warm evenings, and the kind of dispersed public land availability that disappears the moment school starts in September. It is also when the truck bed tent’s most specific heat challenge becomes a real problem. A truck bed tent in…
You wake up at 3 AM and reach for your water bottle. Your hand touches the tent wall instead. It is soaking wet. Your sleeping bag has a damp patch on the outside. Your gear bag is beaded with moisture. The temperature outside is 42°F, and it has not rained once. This is condensation, and…
It is 11 PM on a long road trip. You are two hours from your destination, tired enough that continuing feels like a bad idea, and there is a rest stop a quarter mile ahead. You have a truck bed tent in the back. The question that forms is reasonable and specific: can you pull…
The number one complaint from first-time truck bed tent campers in shoulder season is not about the tent. It is not about the sleeping bag. It is about waking up at 3 AM colder than the thermometer suggests they should be. The reason is almost always the same: they did not account for the metal…
Every truck bed camper faces this decision eventually. You have the tent sorted, the sleeping bag rated for your expected temperatures, and the truck bed cleared and ready. The question is what goes between you and the metal bed surface for the night. Two options dominate: a camping cot or an air mattress. Both solve…
Fofana takes a different approach to truck bed tents than most of the category: instead of threaded fiberglass poles and color-coded sleeves, its tent uses a pop-up hub frame that unfolds and locks into place, closer in spirit to an instant pop-up camping tent than a traditional truck tent. The company markets this model as…
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