Dakmake Roof Top Tent

Car-top tents are a relatively new genre of camping gear in North America. They are essentially tents that pop-up, or fold out, from on top of a vehicle. After a month on the road in a model from Dacmake,  I’ve come to love the style of camping for some situations. Rooftop tents are a neat new tool for campers. Call it a rooftop tent, car-top tent, or pop-up, these new-fangled camping rigs are making ripples in the media. If my experience over the last month is telling, you can expect to see them at a campground near you very soon. A tent on your car or truck may seem a little counterintuitive. Why not just set it up on the ground? After driving from Colorado to Alaska with a Dacmake rooftop tent mounted on the camper top of my Ford Ranger, I’m a believer. The rooftop tent has changed the way I camp, and opened up new alternatives. It has plusses and minuses, but it is the greatest new product I’ve found in years to get a great night’s sleep in the outd...

Did you always choose soft roof tent for your travel? For the would-be roof top tent buyer, the first of many purchasing decisions is whether to by one of the dozens of soft shell tents on the market, or to take the hefty financial plunge. For soft shell tents, there has many reasons to choose it: Soft shell tents were invented more than half a century ago, the folding soft roof top tent hasn’t changed much since inception. Materials have advanced as have refinements and features, but a tent from today looks much like those of decades prior. At the root of it, most designs “borrow” heavily from the few tents that pioneered the category. That statement is probably being too diplomatic as the outright theft of designs is rife in the RTT space. While price often correlates with quality, the individual consumer must do their due diligence to ensure their choice of tent is a sound one. All soft shell roof top tents have a common attribute, which is their folded archite...

This car top tent is one of the finest crafted car & truck tents that you can own. This car top tent  reigns supreme price wise over other more expensive vehicle tents the premium quality makes one wonder why anyone would pay more for more expensive brands.This "Bigfoot" Vehicular Shelter Model 5590 has special features and specifications that are specifically garnished by Bigfoot Roof Top Tents alone like the Duck Back Hard Shell combined with state of the art waterproof polyester giving the user maximum water protection to keep you dry in the most extreme conditions. You can literally pull your car or truck over to the side of a lake and open your tent within two minutes and be taking a peaceful nap just to awake and close it in two minutes and be on you way.Customers have commented how they like to share the space with their beloved pets like the family dog or cat.Sitting by the beach watching the waves.A tent built to last with substantial protection from the almight...

The Zoige, China’s biggest peat swamp area, was just one of these perfect spots to sleep in the roof top tent. Early morning we could spy on the zillions of birds that gathered around water holes. They would have flown away -or never descended in the first place -had we sat outside. But now the mosquito netting gave us the perfect camouflage. All were canvas roof tents, like you see in the picture above. We had never heard of hard-shell roof tents, or the nowadays-popular integrated version. We learned about their existence when meeting other overlanders . Below you’ll find info we gathered on pros and cons of the different types, what they have in common and what makes them unique. As I climbed in one roof top tent after the other, in stores featuring all kinds fancy off-road stuff and camping gear, I concluded that the differences among the canvas versions weren’t big. We didn’t particularly favor one over the other. Prices were all in the same range – incredibly h...

The  vihile tent  dream involves instantly-accessible, cabin-like comfort you can take anywhere on top of your off-roader.Canvassing users of vihile tent, we also found complaints about how loud and uncomfortable they become to sleep in during high winds. And virtually everyone mentioned how hard it is to pop out for a quick pee in the middle of the night—something that involves climbing up and down a rickety metal ladder that gets very slippery in the rain. Canvassing users of vihile tent, we also found complaints about how loud and uncomfortable they become to sleep in during high winds. And virtually everyone mentioned how hard it is to pop out for a quick pee in the middle of the night—something that involves climbing up and down a rickety metal ladder that gets very slippery in the rain. To be totally comfortable in a vihile tent, you’ll also need to ensure your vehicle is totally level when parked. That can be surprisingly difficult to achieve off-road, ...

Roof tents are also called roof top tents or car top tents. They can be divided into three main groups: Canvas tents that open in a clamshell-like manner. Well known brands are Dacmake. Hard shell rooftop tents that also serve as the car’s roof, like Columbus and Maggiolina. It works on a system of internal gas rams and is therefore put up and taken down even faster. A combi of the two: a canvas tent but one that is integrated in the roof of the car. It pops open on one side (generally the back), giving you a place to stand up straight in your Land Cruiser or similar-sized vehicle. What these tents have in common: The mattress, blankets and pillows can be stored inside the tent when folded up, which saves a lot of space in the vehicle. Sleeping high off the ground in a tent with mosquito netting on all sides allows for maximum ventilation, creating maximum comfort in sultry regions – or at least less uncomfortable nights than when sleeping inside the car ...

We have to hand it to the #Team Dacmakepartners and community, you are the reason this event is such a blast, and why all of us at Dacmake Tents are so excited to put it on each year. Each year is a little different, and as we scale up, we also seem to sell out faster! Approaching the first day , we kept hearing of big storms approaching the West Coast, with our venue, Hollister Hills State Vehicular Recreation Area, square in the middle of the mess. Some friends in the Pacific Northwest were already getting hit pretty hard, and central California was in for it, but to us, all that meant was a little more mud on the tires for wheelin’!! Sometimes you just have to put the gear to the test, and as we heard many times throughout the weekend, “I was more worried about driving here than how my tent would do!” It feels good knowing that you will have a secure, dry place above the deluge to call home each night. By mid-day Friday, folks rolled in from all over ...