… of five (three young children) used this tent at Great Basin National Park

My family of five (three young children) used this tent at Great Basin National Park. The tent was great. Took my wife and I about 15 minutes to set it up. We only used one door, but the zippers on it seemed well made. No way I’d try to fit more than 8 total people in this thing. More than 8 would be ridiculous. There are some ties to hold the rain fly to the poles that were difficult to attach if you follow the included instructions. You really need to tie it to the poles BEFORE staking it down. I brought extra stakes so that there would be a little space between the fly and main tent too. I think that allowed more air circulation.We had thunderstorms one evening and one afternoon of our trip. Not a drop made it past the fly. It worked perfectly and it rained pretty hard. It didn’t get that windy, but I think the tent would hold up unless the wind was ridiculous. Do yourself a favor and buy a tarp to put on the ground under the tent. It isn’t absolutely necessary, but I like the extra “insurance.”

3 people found this helpful

Good but not great

Good tent. Well made sturdy seams. Quality zippers. My biggest complaint is the flexibility and extra fabric of the ends, near the doors. Our first trip with the tent we experienced 20-30mph gusts in the Utah desert. I thought the tent was going to shred itself. With all stays strung out, rain fly internal ties tied off, and staked tight, it still made so much noise we had to take the rain fly off, at 1:00 am in a windstorm. With the windows and mesh letting the wind pass through we finally got some sleep. The fiberglass poles flexibility allowed the tent to crush down on us while we slept. Other than the wind issue it’s a good tent.

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Best Tent for the Money

Easy to setup. The only hard part was putting on the rain fly. I set it up just to see how it went together before my camping trip. The instructions where simple and easy to follow. My 4yo Daughter and I had it set up in less than 20min. It was in the mid 60’s when it was up but the tent kept the heat in extremely well. I like how it has a full rain fly. The only issue I have with this design is the windows must be opened and closed from the outside because of the mosquito mesh. This tent has to be one of the best built tents for the money I have ever seen.UPDATE: I just used this tent for a 5 day hunting trip in northern Michigan. It rained all 5 days and this tent held up. No leaks and everything stayed dry. At night the temps got down to the low 50’s and we had a small propane heater inside. It held the heat in very well and got so it was almost uncomfortable. I did used a 10 x 20 7mil tarp for a footprint to help with the rain and keep the floor from punctures. Would recommend this tent to anyone who needs a big 3 season tent.

51 people found this helpful

Great tent for a decent price

I love this tent! My husband and I got really sick of spending $100 to $200 on tents that would only last us a season or two at the most and none ever kept us 100% dry. We decided to spend a little extra this time and went with the NTK Arizona GT. We went on a trip with four adults and six teen girls. The girls slept in this tent and the adults had another. The girls said that with all of their stuff plus them they were a little cramped but not bad.The last night we were camping it poured on us, the adults were drenched in our tent but the tent the girls were in(the NTK) was 100% dry (just make sure you put the rain flap on correctly). You do need two people to put it up but it’s super easy!The only thing I don’t like is that you can’t close the windows from inside but I’m sure it’s for the rain protection. Which I am ok dealing with. I am hopeful this one will lasts us a few years, time will tell.

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She thoroughly enjoyed her time and can’t wait to go again

This tent is my first experience with such space. My wife who always said vacation without room service was roughing it. She thoroughly enjoyed her time and can’t wait to go again. We had 2 queen blowup mattresses and two twins with plenty of extra space. We had 5 adults in the tent.It was not difficult to figure out how to set it up. The supplier told me they were going to update the instructions available. The bag that the tent gets stored in was defective and I called the supplier and he immediately sent me a new bag plus a guy Rope because one was a little frayed and I wasn’t going to make an issue of it but since I called about the bag he sent me two extra guy ropes.The new bag I got has great instructions in it. I think he even said he was going to create a video, not sure. The supplier was very friendly and I would do business with them any day. I am typically a very difficult consumer.Extremely pleased!AdamJust got back from her second trip the tent was amazing. Looking forward to September when we can get away again

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I love this tent! Literally the nicest tent I have ever seen in person

I love this tent! It is literally the nicest tent I have ever seen in person. I recognized the quality workmanship right away. I bought this tent to replace the crappy new Coleman tent I bought and returned immediately. All of the seams on the rainfly are perfectly taped. I love how the rain fly goes on all the way to the ground, and the roll-up windows and vents on the rain fly are wonderful. This is the first tent I have seen that has 2 doors – how cool.It is definitely 100% waterproof. Took it to San Diego and it rained on us really hard on the 2nd night of our trip, and there was flooding at our campground. I added some pictures to illustrate the amount of rain we got. The inside of the tent was 100% dry, and we were all very comfortable. There was so much water on the ground that the floor of the tent felt like walking on a water bed, but not one leak inside the tent. I was amazed. Everyone that has seen the tent is impressed. The ventilation is superb, better than any tent I have used. It is easy to put together, and fits in the storage bag with no problem. It is huge! There was room for 3 big cots and a queen sized air bed, with some room to spare. I can walk upright from one end to the other with lots of room over my head (I am only 5’7″, though). One great thing about this tent is that you can put the rain fly on, then roll it back and tie it down; enjoy sleeping under the stars with the enormous screened windows, and if a rogue rain storm should happen to roll in in the middle of the night, no worries – just get out and unroll the rain fly. I can’t say enough great things about this tent. I love everything about it. I think if I ever need another tent, I will get another NTK.

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Best tent ever invented

Camped every day for a month across over 7 campsites in a variety of conditions including 40mph winds, 33*F temperatures, high and low elevations, rain, blistering sun, and more. Camped in gravel, grass, moss, pine needles, tundra, and sand. Housed two adults and two children under the age of 10. INCREDIBLE TENT!!! Never leaked. The rain fly design was so versatile as to allow a multitude of different configurations depending on the weather and degree of privacy desired. Have used several tent brands before including Colman and this one has them all beat. The only advice that I would give is to buy real tent stakes. The metal ones that come with are perfectly fine for backyard camping, but for remote outdoorsy kind of adventures you’d be better off with some thicker, longer, more solid stakes.When I was considering buying the tent on Amazon, I was confused about how the rain fly worked. It ties onto the tent poles at various positions and has a double door design that free-floats on top of the inner tent piece. The fly doors also roll up if desired which is super nice. The inner room divider divides the inside into two, unevenly sized partitions which was also nice so that we could put the kids and their stuff in one end and the adults in the other end. Absolutely no fantasy of real privacy but sometimes just having a wall between you and another human being is enough. Also, when it got down to 33*F, we all moved into the smaller partition side to conserve warmth. Worked great.All that tenting (30ish days!) and the tent shows no sign of wear. Incredible tent people.

29 people found this helpful

Great Tent! Spacious and Watertight!

Great tent! Took it out for the first time this weekend and the tent is amazing. The set up was straight forward, and fairly easy. The color coded poles are great, and make set up that much easier. Inside the tent is spacious. with high ceilings. We were able to set up both a queen and twin air mattress with plenty of extra space for gear storage. The two doors on opposite ends of the tent make access easy. The interior has lots of pockets for small items, as well as a zipper to allow a power cord to access the interior of the tent. The rainfly is amazing, and stands up to wind and water. We had rain our first night, and not a drop penetrated the interior of the tent. It was also 40 degrees outside, and with the rainfly on, the interior of the tent felt comfortable. The fact that the windows only open from the outside really doesn’t matter much when you know whether or not you will need them open by the time you head to bed. We can’t wait for many more trips using this amazing tent!

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Wonderful Tent- 3 Years Later

Update-3 years later: I still love my tent! Several camping trips later and this bad boy never gives us any trouble. It costs more than your average tent but it’s more than worth it.Original Review: I did weeks of research before deciding to purchase this tent. There were so many Coleman options that I wanted to go with because they offered the same size at a much more affordable price, but there were several reviews about water leaking. Not just on one model either. I decided cost would not be the first factor but instead quality. I was determined to make this an enjoyable camping trip, rain or shine. I read reviews, looked at different camping websites, watched videos, and overall this tent was in the top 10 for “best camping tents when it rains”. This tent did not disappoint! It rained off and on the entire weekend and not one drop of water entered the tent. It took us about 15-20 minutes to put it up (that includes tying it down with rope). We had a queen air mattress and 2 twin mattresses (family of 4) and there was still room for one more twin air mattress. I know it says 9-10 person but it was just right for us. I highly recommend this tent.

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Definitely water proof.

I received the tent and set it up in the back yard immediately. It was a little more complicated than I had hoped, but between myself, an 8 and 5 year old we got it up in about 20 minutes on the first go around. I put the rain fly on just to see how it looked and covered the tent, and it was a good thing I did. About 10 minutes after getting it set up, a storm with very heavy rain came in. I hadn’t planned on testing how waterproof it was, but I guess I’m glad we did before camping in it. After the rain stopped an hour later, I went out to check the inside. I found it dry as a bone. Not a drop of water or moisture inside anywhere. The rain fly definitely covers the tent and is going to keep you dry. The issue is, when the fly is on, the tent has somewhat limited ventilation. It gets pretty hot quickly, however, the fly can be rolled back on the smaller side of the tent which has an all mesh roof. So when there is no rain in sight you can roll the fly partially off for ventilation or looking at the stars.So far I like the tent, but we haven’t camped yet. I guess if I feel strongly one way or the other after that, I’ll add to the post.

6 people found this helpful

decnt

This thing is gigantic. I do think it is over priced, its not “all that”. The zippers, as many reviewers stated, are weak, I anticipate those failing. My sleeping bag has a better zipper! The windows only have an outdoor zipping option and that is so inconvinient, especially if it starts to rain at night. We got some dew through the floor which was weird, we had 2 tarps under the tent so I’m not sure what happened there. As other reviewers mentioned the instructions are horrible and lacking, leaves you guessing, but we managed, its not overly complicated. After the first install you’ll easily remember what to do. The stakes were incredibly cheap, I recommend buying better ones, again not what I expect at this price point, those stakes are the same that comes with one of those cheap walmart/home depot tents. All in all, I like the tent, glad its huge and it suited our needs. If they’d upgrade a few things then they’d earn the its “awesome” product review but as is, its a pretty good tent for a lot of money. We didnt get rain when we used it so I can’t vouch for its weather proofness -which was my motivation for purchasing this tent.

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Pros and Con(s) Also comparing it to the NTK Indy

Pros:Very spaciousGood quality materialGood ventilationGood designIt has a removable divider so you can have privacy if you have others camping with you.Cons:Has a canopy on one end but did not come with poles to hold it up. Pretty silly if you ask me.We have not camped in the rain yet so I cannot attest for it being %100 waterproof, but it looks like it will hold up well! The floor of the tent is a sturdy tarp and comes up on the walls a good 4 inches.Compared to the NTK Indy GT:I loved the vestibule area the indy offered. I love to be able to sit and watch the rain outside while being sheltered. The indy definately delivered in that area, whereas this Arizona just has the canopy with no poles.The Indy has only one window where the door was thus creating virtually no ventilation.This Arizona has PLENTIFUL ventilation.I wish NTK had a tent that was a size between both of these tents. The Indy felt a bit cramped having a queen blow up mattress and all our gear. This Arizona is almost too big! I hope wherever we camp in the future there will be large areas for our tent!If there was an in between size, that had the vestibule of the Indy and the Ventilation of the Arizona, I would be a HAPPY CAMPER! Hehe.

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Preliminary Review – Awesome Tent

This is a preliminary review. I received the tent yesterday and just set it up.If you have set up a dome tent before, this tent poses no new challenges other than the height. I am 5’11” and I had no trouble, even with the rain fly.All together, set up took me about an hour. I was taking my time, however, checking seams, etc. I could probably do it in under 20 minutes by myself and less with a partner. I reviewed the instructions, but the tent is pretty self-explanatory.Once up, I checked everything again. Seams were tight and evenly sewed. Zippers were smooth and sewed well. I found no abrasions, tears or holes. The tent stakes were the standard too small and too light stakes that come with all tents these days…I wasn’t expecting anything different. Overall, quality is very good.And then, of course, is the size. This thing is huge. I will be using this with my three adult children and grandson. As far as I can tell, there will be ample room for all of us and our gear. I am very impressed.I am taking this tent to Texas for a few days of camping this week. I will post a follow-up when I return.

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10/10!

Love this tent! It was super easy to set up..took us about 20min max mainly because we couldn’t find the directions lmao (they’re attached to the inside of the carry bag) usually we don’t even use the instructions but there were a lot of poles and some are curved so I wanted to make sure since it was supposed to rain that night. Once it was set up, since we had two people, we just grabbed each end of the rain fly and slid it on. Super easy but if you’re doing it alone then definitely put it on first. This thing did not leak AT ALL. It rained most of the second day and there was not one drop in there which is unheard of. We are going to seal the seems just incase since it is such a good tent but you definitely get what you pay for! It’s worth every penny! My only complaint is that it’s literally impossible to get back into the storage bag with everything. We shoved it in there but couldn’t zip it and we needed two people just to do that. Luckily it has to buckle straps or it wouldn’t even be in there at all. Nothing a bigger duffle bag can’t fix.

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Great, big, well made tent!

Great tent!! Spacious and well thought out design elements from the storage pockets, gear hook, double doors, room separator, and the entrance floor mat! The rain cover is also well made, and goes all the way to the ground to ensure no water penetration, yet can be rolled back to provide excellent ventilation. All the stitching looked strong and reinforced where necessary including what looks like a sealant of some kind on seams. Poles are sturdy and color coded (this has helpful since no instructions came with ours, but it’s a tent, not a rocket!). I wouldn’t exactly call this a free-standing tent, because the screen room will fall inward without tying and staking it off. It took two of us about 15 minutes to assemble, and about 10 minutes to get it down and packed into the included pouch. I’m 5’8″ and could stand throughout without any problems. We slept two adults on a queen size air mattress and two large dogs with all our gear, a lantern hanging from the middle and even had room to use our camp box as a nightstand! Could you sleep 10 people in here…? Sure, so long as they are all in mummy bags shoulder to shoulder and hope that no one needs to get up in the night to relieve themselves! All in all… love this tent and plan to use it for years to come!!

59 people found this helpful

Great features for the price

I purchased the Arizona 9 to 10 person tent to replace a Wenzel Columbia 4 person tent that tore after about 5 years of occasional use. There are great reviews of this tent and photos so I will skip a lot of details and get to the heart of if I would recommend to friends and family.* This is a heavy tent. I have low back arthritis so my back is sensitive to weight. This tent feels much heavier than 26 pounds. I later purchased an REI Kingdom 8 which is also heavy but almost half the weight. Lifting the Arizona tent is very heavy. My adult family became quickly frustrated trying to help set up the tent. There were no detailed instructions and the tent setup was not intuitive. Add the weight and the wind causing the tent to lift and fly like a kite added to the low back pain. If friends and family are willing to help set up the tent in windy cold weather, then yes, I recommend this tent for friends and family.* It is possible for one person to set up this tent but lay the rainfly on top and secure it before raising the tent or have a tall ladder because getting the rainfly on top once the tent is erected is a struggle. I had to remove a pole and partially collapse the tent to get the rainfly on top. I highly recommend setting up the tent first before taking it into the field for camping. The X crossing poles in the center tended to tip over. The pin rings helped keep the poles in place and I was thankful for those.* Waterproof was tested with a water hose and there were no leaks. I still recommend spraying a water repellent over the outside of the tent.* The bottom is like a bathtub. The plastic material is like a heavy tarp and crunches loudly when walking inside the tent. I recommend using a plastic outdoor carpet to muffle the sound. When turning over in a sleeping bag on a quiet night it’s – loud crunching sound – or get some earplugs.* The interior space is enormous – the size of a New York apartment or small camper. I recommend buying a good quality water repellent tarp to go under the tent floor. Look at the height of the tent and length then buy tarp and poles that will provide shade for the tent. In my area of the country, limbs break from trees so it’s not safe to put a tent under a tree. My area also has high summer temperatures so a tarp over the top of the tent will provide extra shade.* Buy a bigger carry bag for the tent. I was unable to get the entire tent into the bag because the plastic tub does not roll or fold well.* Other reviews will give more details and photos. No instructions clearly explained how to set up the tent so print out the photos younsee on the product description page.* Because of its weight, I would not buy this tent as a personal tent for me but it’s a great tent for people who can manage the weight. For the price, it’s a great buy for the features and space you get. It’s a great value but set it up in advance of your trip. The Amazon page has photos of how the set up looks but when the box arrived the my home, there were only photos on the box that described its features but not how to set up the tent. I included a photo of a very important setup feature – use the ribbon to tie the two cross X poles together before you raise the tent. This 9-10 person tent is very tall and once you raise the tent you can’t reach the top to tie the poles together. Even with a ladder we had to partially collapse the tent. There are no step by step instructions and the setup is not intuitive. I have owned several tents and this tent is not intuitive, but once you set it up it makes sense. But extra tie out cord and stakes for the type of soil or you will be upon. When at the beach I use snow stakes. Stakes down well – this tent did not fly away in a sudden wind and rain. Do not throw away the ribbons or anything in the box until you are positive the tent is set up properly. If you found this review helpful please select the helpful button.

21 people found this helpful

Outstanding 5 star Tent!

First, this is a well designed and constructed spacious tent. We purchased a NTK Laredo GT tent two years ago after much research and we were thoroughly pleased with our experience with the Laredo (I posted a 5 star review for the Laredo on Amazon on Sept 22, 2016 under SAJ).We wanted a large tent with two doors and windows with good ventilation. We knew that NTK was a quality brand so we did not hesitate to purchase the Super Arizona and we’re happy with the result.We set up the Arizona a mere 30 feet from our home on our ideal location which happened to be hard packed gravel. Why this location you ask? You would have to know our neighbor! To protect the bottom on the tent I laid down 6 and a quarter sheets of 1/2″ plywood (actually 19/32″ exterior plywood purchased from Lowe’s). One sheet had to be cut lengthwise and a quarter sheet from the seventh sheet to complete the 10′ x 20′ footprint. A tarp then went on top before assembling the tent. Pitching the tent was pretty straightforward thanks to the color coding of the poles. A note on the poles. Several reviewers said that they broke poles while erecting them and others said that this tent is pitched easily with one person. Unless you are very experienced at this I would recommend getting help at least with raising the two red crossmember poles. I had help raising them and even then felt sure at one point that the pole would surely snap. Thankfully it did not and the rest went smoothly until time to put on the rainfly. We tied two guy lines to one end and pulled it over quite easily.As you can see in the photos, we had an Intex queen size (22″ high) air bed, an Intex 6 foot long air couch(34″ high), and a card table with two chairs set up in the tent with room to spare! Due to the slope of the tent anything with any height will have a gap between it and the wall. The bed and couch had a gap of 12 to 18 inches depending on where you put them (end or side wall). This, of course provides room for clothes or other gear. We also had three 5’x 7′ area rugs for comfort and extra insulation and an extension cord (with GFI for safety) to power a laptop, a coffee maker, and a Lasko squirrel cage type fan. That fan really puts out a tremendous amount of air even on the lowest of three settings. As you can tell we were not roughing it by any means. Oh, we also had a 4×4 (13’x13′) DD tarp set up and our NTK Laredo set up as a dressing/ hygiene tent.There’s much more that I could write but suffice it to say that this is an excellent tent. We had no leaks at all even with several days of rain and wind. We would highly recommend this tent!Wish list:Include metal poles (similar to the door canopy poles) to elevate the windows for more than a 25% view.Make windows accessible from the inside.Make inside height at least 6′-5″ the entire length not just the very center where the poles cross.Make the door canopy wider than the door opening to prevent rain from entering the tent when the canopy is extended.Not complaining. Just wishing! 🙂The picture shows how the windows can be simply modified for a full view instead of the partial view as provided by NTK. Shown is something that I put together in just a few minutes using two tree branches about 66″ long used as vertical supports and one horizontal branch which is needed to redirect and support the tent guy line.For those who may be wondering, the picture of the tent with the tarp and Dutch oven tripod is showing the NTK Laredo Tent which we used in addition to the NTK Super Arizona..

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this is a great tent and well worth the price

To get right to the point, this is a great tent and well worth the price. I’m glad I spent a bit extra on it. The reason I bought the Arizona GT vs other popular and cheaper brands was how rugged it looked and the rain protection it offered. I was absolutely not disappointed!On our first car camping trip we took it to the cascade mountains in the PNW for 4 days, 3 nights. It was my Wife and I, our two children (ages 3 and 1) and our small dog. On the 2nd day it rained moderate to heavy rain almost the entire day, non-stop. Our camping group was a total of about 6 other tents, we had the only Arizona GT while everyone else had familiar name brand tents. We were the only tent to be dry on the inside after a full day of rain. Every single other tent got water inside and had to air out when the weather got better.Inside our tent? Not a single drop! Not even the sides were wet. Exactly why I bought it!The space is very good, we fit a queen size air mattress in the smaller end which still left room around the edge of the bed to store stuff. The larger half of the tent we used as a place to get dressed and play while it was raining. We even had enough room to put up 3 camping chairs with extra room for kids to play and dog to be comfortable.My only gripe is I wish it had zip-up or closeable windows on the inside, not for rain, but for privacy for when the rain cover windows are open on the outside.As for setup, we couldn’t find the instructions (which I later learned are zipped to the inside of the carrying case), but we instead used the pictures on the box to figure it out. First setup took about 15 minutes with 2 of us (while trying to entertain our kids!) and the color matching poles with the sleeves on the tent were very helpful. Just make sure you stake the ends of the tent in, it’s the only way to get the tent to fully stand up and get full length.When it’s all setup with the rain cover it looks like a fortress. Very rugged, something I really wanted in a tent. I’m hoping to use it as our family tent for as many years as possible. I also liked how the rain cover staked to the ground and kept an air/buffer between the cover and the actual tent fabric. This means zero water touches the actual tent even in heavy rain. If you have your tent on top of a tarp, it allows you to fold the tarp under the rain cover which also keeps the top side of the tarp dry (prevents water from getting between the tarp and the tent floor).Lastly, for our 4 days of camping we only opened the rain cover windows on the sides of the big end when it wasn’t raining. There was plenty of air movement inside with the rain cover fully closed, because it doesn’t actually touch the tent, it leaves an air buffer (the rain cover is held off the tent fabric by a couple of inches, kind of like a having the tent suspended inside a bubble).If you are on the fence between the Arizona GT and other name brand tents, don’t hesitate any longer. You will not have buyers remorse with this tent!

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Great tent and quality, but this is first impressions only

We’ve only had this tent for a few hours, but I’ve made a thorough walkthrough and video review to share with you.First of all, this is much bigger than I’m used to. We’ve slowly been expanding our family and the time came to upgrade from our 3 person MSR Hubba Hubba. Given that we’ve been relegated to car camping for a few years now, we decided to decided to hang up the backpacker credo and get something enormous.Setup: The instructions were in portuguese I think, with no pictures other than the ones on the box, so I just winged it and it took between 15-20 minutes to put up. I think this time would go down if I slid all the poles through before clipping and seating them. You’ve got to stake out the two ends to get it to extend to its full length and I think staking out the rest would take an extra few minutes but wasn’t necessary for today’s goals. Much faster to setup than I thought it would be and could be done with one person in just a little longer than with two. Its nice that the sleeves are color coated to match the poles, I like when the do that and I notice it.Inside: Its so big! There’s definitely room for 3 queens squished together although we’ve only got 1 queen along with two little PVC a-frames so our girls can be in their own cubbies. The sky chamber (our name for it because it’s so pretty) is separated from the other chamber of the tent by a standard divider with only a horizontal zipper along the middle. It doesn’t roll back but folds up well enough and you can take it down easily if you want the space. Speaking of the sky chamber, we all cuddled in for a family snuggle before the girls hit the sack and it was so cool to look at the 180 degree view from the safety of the meshed in chamber (I hate mosquitoes).As far as quality goes, all double seams, the tarp bottom goes up the side 3-4 inches and the rain fly reaches all the way to the ground. We wanted the extra rain protection for PNW early and late season rainy weekends and I think it will work perfectly for that. Not to mention a lot of the other more mainstream tents we came across seemed to fall far short on foul weather worthiness. From what I’ve heard this tent was designed for Amazon weather so our drizzles shouldn’t be a problem. Air flow is great with 1 chamber being almost all mesh and the other one having 3 big windows. If the windows are closed though, the vents might not be enough to push air move air through but we might be able to figure out a solution for that, it looks like the other windows can be staked out without rain seepage.It’s still early days but we’ve got 7 trips planned this summer so if it doesn’t hold up, I’ll find out soon.[…]

38 people found this helpful

Survived 80 mph winds

I bought this tent last year after having to suffer through two years of getting soaked during storms at a rock festival while sleeping in a wall tent. My other tents I own all have full rainflys but unfortunately were too small to accommodate everyone, so we had to go with less weatherproof yet larger wall tents.Searching for a large tent with a full rainfly I stumbled upon the ARIZONA GT and decided to give it a shot. I have now used it three trips for a combined total of 10 days. The first trip, there was no bad weather. None the less I was impressed with the quality given the price and the ease of assembly. While not quick, I can actually put up the tent by myself, admittedly getting the rainfly on is a little tricky even with my 6 ft height. It’s also legitimately huge.On the 2nd trip, there were some storms with up to 30 mph gust. Tent worked great! No water made it in. The third time out really tested things. During this years rock festival, the event for which I bought the tent, there was a serious storm with weather reports of 80 mph straight-line winds. While I don’t know exactly how fast the winds were, it was hell a fast. During the storm I was sitting in my vehical and during large gusts I could see the tent get pushed over, and actually see the top of the rainfly. However after each gust it would pop back up and be just fine. I suspect if the winds were coming towards the shortPost storm the ARIZONA was the only one left standing in our group. Looking at nearby campsites, our tent honestly was probably one out of 10’s that was left. Additionally the tent was standing in about 5 inches of water. Inside the tent a little water seeped in from where the wall of tent got pushed down on our air mattresses, but that was it, and totally expected! Upon packing the tent up 2 days later, we did find a little damage. Two sections of fiberglass poles had split due to the wind, but that’s it, and the poles are easily replaced. I cannot recommend this tend enough.

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As Advertised

Easy to setup. Spacious enough for a queen size air mattress, 2 people and all applicable gear. Could easily fit 2 more cots in without being on top of each other.There are only 2 drawbacks that I can see:1. The roll up windows on the fly are opened from outside the tent, not the inside.2. Could have been engineered with mor tabs/loops to clip lights/lanterns to on the inside.

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Have to review!

So, we have had this tent for a year and a half now….it is fairly easy for 2 people to set up. It fits a queen and a double mattress inside with a table (yes!) that I use for daily stuff…setting out mirror, makeup, essentials, etc., plus room for big boxes of our gear and clothes and a travel potty, with room to walk around. HOWEVER, we just got home from a trip today; last night, a wind storm came through with gusts up to 40mph….our tent was one of the few left standing! We even took a friend in when their tent’s poles split and the tent collapsed at 2am. At times the tent (now named Bertha) inflated and shifted like a behemoth breathing, but never, never failed! And despite the temperature rapidly falling into the low 40’s, there was no wind leaks inside the tent….amazing!!!! My only grump is the bag….it was flimsy and tore after the first use…..we store “Bertha” in a hard case now.

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Great Tent with a Minor Exception

Bought this tent for its waterproof-ness and it didn’t disappoint. In a week, we went through 3 storms, it stayed water tight even when I didn’t set the tie-downs at first. In fact, when a storm was coming, I simply got back in my tent and sleeping bag and slept through the fairly intense storm–not worried about the tent. We never had a leak. I like the size of the tent, lived in it for 3 weeks this summer. The only downside that I can think of is the door design–it is great until it rains. The door slopes back over the tent which creates a challenge when you open it in the rain… rain can then fall directly into the tent. However, I am still very happy with this tent and delighted with how weatherproof it is.

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Very tough tent!

I love the fact that this tent is compact and light weight. This is perfect for quick road trips. This tent is incredibly durable! Just yesterday in Jacksonville Florida there were ferocious wind gust up to 20 miles an hour. This tent didn’t collapse or blow away! However, because I didn’t have tent anchors in at the time some of the stakes came out and the tent took on some water. But that’s the only time the tent ever leaked. Now I have tent anchors and I’m totally confident this tent will withstand some serious inclement wearher. I would definitely buy another.The only critique I have is that it could be a bit talller. I’m 6’3 and I can only stand straight up in the middle section. Besides that, I have no complaints.

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happy camper

Our new tent started in the Adirondacks and then the Catskills…It rained both times( of course) and this baby held up great.The poles seem like they should last a good 5-10 years and zippers and seams are very well made. Directions were very minimal though and the neon guide lines for the rain guard were a bit of a mess…..also the stakes are just your basic skinny metal ones so upgrade them if you care about that stuff…I personally don’t mind..It’s also a bit of a squeeze to get it back in the bag, but if you care about it you will take the time to roll and fold it properly. They say it is an 8 to 10 man tent but I say 2 couples or a family of 6 would be a comfortable limit..but it would definitely fit more in a pinch..I could go on but will just save you the research and give it 5 stars and just say that for your money this is the best you will find.

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Great customer Service and quality materials!!

UPDATE: The company reached out to me soon after my initial post and they were very apologetic. I do believe my experience isn’t standard of their products and chose to give the tent another try. It really is made of quality material and it’s a unique tent for sure. The company sent a new pole for the pole that snapped AND a new interior tent since it had been damaged by the pole, all at no cost to me. They definitely fixed the situation and how I felt about the whole thing. I’m actually hopeful to try more of their products. Though we have yet to go camping again and put the tent to use, we look forward to doing that very soon. I hope to be updating to 5 stars at that point. There’s a previous comment here about not setting up right, but that is not the case though I appreciate random guesses. My wife is an avid camper and I certainly understand directions and took the wind direction into consideration. Overall though solid 4.5 stars!I hate leaving bad reviews but I have tried their customer service hotline which apparently belongs to a strange woman, and it just keeps ringing until going to voicemail. I am STUCK with the bad taste of this tent. I purchased it after doing weeks of research on a good tent. Finally I took the plunge based on the great reviews. Shipped and got to me quick enough and my partner and I pitched it in our front yard no real problems. Then came our camping trip a little later. Our first night there the tent just didn’t live up to the hype. It wasn’t as stable as I expected and although the materials seemed quality, it really wasn’t in practice. We had slight wind nothing crazy maybe 10-15 mph gusts here and there. The nightmare really started when I saw the poles starting to overbend. Repositioning and tying the fly down yadda yadda struggle struggle, sweat and tears, nothing helped. The tent just couldn’t hack it. Well sure as we start to try and relax, one gust comes by and SNAP! There goes a pole. I wish that would have been it. But the snapped, jagged pole tore its way through the fine mesh of the tent. So pole broke, tent ripped and falling on us, we literally couldn’t use it. Having no real choice, we drove from our campsite to the nearest WalMart nearly 2 hours away and bought an Ozark Trail tent, similar size to the NTK Arizona for 1/3 the price. That tent pitched and held up for the 4 days left of our camping trip. We even took it to other sites since then and now I’m just trying to figure out what to do with this very broken and pricey NTK tent that we’ve literally not even used for a single night. Just a tip to everyone: reviews aren’t everything.

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Relatively Easy To Put Up, But Nice To Have Help

The tent came with no instructions. I should have deducted one star, but once I figured out what I needed to do, I put it together by myself without a problem. I’m 6’4″, so handling this tent during it’s unwieldy initial stage was do-able, but it would be nice to have someone help you. The room divider uses loops to secure it in place, but it does the job. Mine didn’t look exactly like the photo on this website, so be warned. You have to put the rain cover on if you want any privacy from the outside. The tent pegs are the standard cheap-o metal ones, so you might want to go out and buy good ones. I’m not so sure how the cheap ones will hold up in a strong wind.UPDATE!This weekend we took the tent out for the second time. When I opened up the bag of tent poles I found that the elastic string had broken on all five pole sets. In short, none of the tent pole sets would stay connected. To remedy this, I used electrical tape to secure each section to the next. Instead of taking 25 minutes to put the tent together, it took an hour. Frustrating to say the least, but when it was time to break-down the tent, I spent even more time removing the tape from each section.I’ll downgrade my review from five to four stars. This kind of failure shouldn’t happen after only the second use. Otherwise, this tent is very easy to assemble, even by one person, but only if you use the proper sequence. Unfortunately I’ll have to use tape to secure the tent pole sections every time I want to assemble the tent, which adds to the amount of time it takes to put the tent together.SECOND UPDATE!Since there is a 1 year warranty on the tent, I contacted the company through Amazon to explain the problem. Without asking any questions, other than to confirm my address, they sent out a full replacement set of tent poles within a few days. I call that very attentive customer service. I have not had the opportunity to try out the replacement poles yet, but I’ll try to remember to write an update after a few more successful assemblies and takedowns.

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Happy Campers

After researching many tents for weeks, I went with this tent. Pound for pound, stitch for stitch there is no tent that compares to it near this price range. The next step up imo was a canvas Kodiak that my wife would not let me spend $900 on. Do the research for yourself, if you care to learn about denai ( spelt that wrong most likely) or mil thickness, or just take my word for it and spare yourself a few hours of time. Whatever. The shell of the tent goes up easy. The fly takes a little longer but is not complicated. I anchored all the guy lines as the weather was forecasted as being rainy and awful for our 5 day camping trip. I sprayed the fly prior to the trip because I didn’t want to be that guy who ruined his family’s camping trip because the tent is advertised as being 100% waterproof out of the box. The tent held up to all of the rain without a single leak. I have to be honest, this is the first tent that I’ve ever been able to fall asleep in while enjoying the sound of rain hammering down on it. It felt good knowing the wife and kids were well protected from the elements. This tent does hold heat well. 5 of us slept inside and condensation did build up on the interior but was remedied quickly by opening the windows a little for more ventilation.Sorry I didn’t take any pictures of our set-up on the inside to show the spaciousness of it. I wanted to, but I had fishing and drinking and cooking to do. We had 3 queen size air mattresses set up with adequate room for gear and were able to walk around everything ok.With the weather being as wet as it was we weren’t able to set up the canopy off of the one door, so I can’t comment on that although it seems cool and we look forward to using it. The welcome mat came in handy as a place to ditch our shoes prior to entering.I can keep babbling, but I won’t. If your looking for the best dang family tent for your money, look no further. NTK Arizona got ya covered.

18 people found this helpful

Awesome tent

I’m super impressed with this tent. We are relatively new to camping and my husband was concerned about being wet – I knew that if we got wet at all that it would be a deal breaker for him. We went camping and it literally flooded – we stayed dry the entire time. The bathtub floor and complete rainfly are amazing – and the ventilation is well done so that you don’t get hot.The tent is spacious enough to fit our family of 7 comfortably along with gear. As the kids get bigger it will obviously be tighter but for now there’s plenty of room.The set up is easy – there are just five poles. I don’t love that the tent isn’t really freestanding – you have to stake in the ends for the tent to completely stand up. There are two red poles that cross and three white poles that don’t cross. The three white poles literally fall over if the tent isn’t staked into the ground and I would much prefer that it stand without staking.Also the canopy that opens toward the front isn’t super well designed – if you want to keep it open and it is raining even a little, the water gathers in the middle and it collapses. I’d also love it if the side door opened up rather than to the side so that you could leave either flap open during threatening weather.The tent also has several extra anchor points for windy weather, which is awesome, but we haven’t had to use those yet.We haven’t ever been able to fold it back into its original bag so we’re using a different one, but I think that’s relatively normal.Overall I’m REALLY happy with this purchase and would definitely buy this tent again.

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Nice tent, but

It’s a great size and seems quite well made. My issue is that your only options are to use it without the rain cover, so it’s got tons of mesh and little privacy. Or you put the rain cover over it, which makes it nice and dark, but it also blocks your windows and makes it so you have to go outside to open them. If it’s raining, you don’t have much ability to open anything for air through the tent 🙁