The Mouflon Tent from Belgian-American firm CanvasCamp pulls collectively a rugged canvas construct, instant-pitching built-in hub body, and big home windows on all 4 sides like no different tent we have seen. Whether or not you are leisurely tenting at an area park or overlanding by harsh, storm-battered backlands, this three-person A-frame is able to present the precise degree of safety you want, in as little as a minute after arrival.
Protecting new improvements could be a actual deep, messy rabbit gap. We did not got down to cowl a number of tents proper across the official begin of winter for a lot of the world’s inhabitants, however wanting again on the yr’s coolest tent designs finally lead us to some spectacular fashions we might by no means seen earlier than.
As an alternative of placing them off into a brand new yr/new gear cycle that kicks off with absolutely the chaos of CES and subsequent worldwide occasions, we figured we would as properly dedicate the sluggish, quiet week earlier than Christmas to that, even when tenting is likely to be about as removed from prime of thoughts because it’ll ever be for many individuals.
So right here we’re, following up an amazing Japanese glamping tent design with a smaller however equally compelling glamping tent from the US market. We suppose the compact Mouflon is optimized for extra down-to-earth automotive tenting, however CanvasCamp does focus on massive canvas bell and cabin tents aimed particularly at refined glamping affairs. Contemplate the Mouflon a hybrid design that might really feel equally at house as a pair’s rental at a pricy glamping resort or subsequent to an previous, dusty beater pickup at a primitive campsite.
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The Mouflon is among the latest, smallest choices in CanvasCamp’s impressively deep lineup of tents, shrinking down the corporate’s signature rugged canvas building to 2/three-person dimension. It additionally simplifies issues with a preinstalled body just like the one utilized by Gazelle and different hub tent producers, incorporating it into an A-frame type moderately than a big polyhedron.
CanvasCamp makes use of an aluminum built-in pole construction instead of the fiberglass poles frequent on this model of pre-framed design. Having had built-in fiberglass poles in our personal immediate tent crack on the hub and go away tiny glass strands everywhere in the tent ground, rendering it unusable for the evening, we now a lot favor the concept of aluminum and are completely happy to see it used right here.
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The Mouflon packs all the way down to a manageable carry dimension of 47 x 8 x 8 in (120 x 20 x 20 cm) and weighs 32 lb (14.5 kg). It is designed to arrange in a single minute flat – merely unfold the tent physique and pull every of the 2 facet hubs out, and it is already standing. It may be staked and guyed out or used with out stakes on laborious or uncooperative floor.
All 4 of the Mouflon sides function massive mesh panels framed out by Tentrex poly-cotton canvas on the edges and across the central-hub X-framed poles. The result’s a tent that appears like one large, three-dimensional window, offering panoramic views of the earthly environment in each route, in addition to the evening sky above – we’re unsure the precise no-see-um mesh right here competes with the particular high-clarity UltraVue mesh of SkyView tents, however the Mouflon does use an identical share of pure-mesh building to maintain sight traces clear.
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In fact, not each evening of tenting is spent under a transparent, sensible stargazing sky – some nights are downright dreadful. On this occasion, the Mouflon’s two full-length sidewall fly sheets unroll from their tie-off level on the A-frame ridge, zipping and staking into place to supply campers full climate safety. Every centrally zippered mesh door options like-shaped fly panels that zip collectively and stake into vestibules so campers can shortly cowl your entire tent in weatherproof-breathable 210 g/sq m poly-cotton canvas.
The Mouflon’s canvas is handled for water repellency and UV, mildew and decay resistance, designed to shed heavy rain. Along with rolling the facet flys up or securing them down over the tent, campers can set every one up as an awning with the included metal poles.
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The Mouflon is designed to comfortably sleep two adults with their baggage saved inside, three adults atop sleeping pads with no further gear inside, or 4 youngsters on sleeping pads, no gear. The tent options quite a few built-in storage pockets and organizers for stashing away smaller EDC/tenting objects like telephones, wallets and headlamps.
Together with the mesh/poly-cotton physique, built-in aluminum pole system and metal awning poles, the Mouflon tent features a heavy-duty waterproof polyethylene ripstop ground, UV-treated polyester man traces and forged-steel stakes. It stands 4.3 toes (1.3 m) excessive and has a ground space simply over 46 sq ft (4.3 sq m).
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CanvasCamp launched the Mouflon tent shut to 2 years in the past and sells it for a retail of US$459. We discovered it a number of days too late for our Best Tents of 2025 checklist, however given its spectacular mixture of sturdy building, lightning-quick setup and panoramic viewing, it already appears a shoe-in for subsequent yr’s round-up.
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