3 Room Tent: Sierra Designs Sirius 3 Three-Person Three-Season Tent Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)The tent is as lightweight as they come for backpacking.For this, where weight is traded off vs size, it is the best and cheapest choice of any tent.However light, it is bulky, and does not easily fit in a backpack.It fills too much of my 5500 backpack, leaving little room for else but a bag and a pad.This is a one man, one child 43 sq ft tent.Two adults could fit, if they are short like me and not shy.Forget three of any age.

When car camping, a larger tent is called for.This is not a big tent.Three people?No (comfortable) way for 3 Homo Sapiens. Three Homo Floresiensis would fit in nicely, but alas, Hobbits are extinct so this isn't for them.I slept with my 11 year old son one night only, and it was tight and the backpacks slept outside.Cannot imagine how even another 11 year old would have squeezed in, let alone a grown up.I'm 5'8", and I touch both ends.I've tried angling my body diagonally to get the few needed inches of room.Another 6" of length is really needed for side sleepers, even for someone as vertically challenged as 5'8" me.

Two other complaints.First, the zipper catches at the half way mark most every time which is annoying and requires two hands to open & close.Second, the door is too low, forcing this mid 40's body to contort to enter and exit in ways that 4+ decades of damage did not intend.

Complaints aside, the material is clearly quality.The alluminum poles are excellent, the rain fly and copious no see um netting is top drawer.And it looks really nice!Set up and take down is as fast as possible for any tent.The floor is THIN! Buy the footprint!For backpacking, took 2 30 gallon garbage bags slit along the seams to replace the 15 oz footprint, which reduced 12 oz and worked about as well!

The large quantity of mesh is love it or leave it. I like it.It will ventilate nicely, leaving not a drop of condensation on the inside roof in the morn but will let in some wind if positioned incorrectly.Tents don't hold heat anyways, that is what a quality bag is for.

If you are backpacking for two, then this is the tent to beat.

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Product Description:
A larger footprint offers room for another happy camper.Same feature set as the Sirius, with the new Quick Pitch Swivel Hub to speed set-up while maintaining the tent's strength in windy conditions.