Kelty Green River 4 Four Person Tent

Manufacturer: Kelty
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List Price: $294.95
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Product Description

A great choice for car camping or use for a basecamp, the Kelty Green River provides a roomy interior for four campers as well as a front screenroom with room enough to store gear or set up chairs for watching the sunset. This tent sleeps up to four campers, offers three-season usage, and a freestanding design that enables you to move it around your campsite to find the optimum position. It also includes large mesh windows for good ventilation, UV resistant polyester fly, and color-coded poles for quick-and-easy setup. Weighing 20 pounds, 15 ounces, the four-person Green River has a 81 square foot floor area, and a 43.6 square foot vestibule area.

The shockcorded fiberglass poles have color coded clips that make setup a breeze. The tent also offers post and grommet type assembly with locking pole tips for convenience and security. Kelty's ArcEdge construction lifts floor seams up off the ground, preventing water seepage around the floor and wall seams. Other features include a single flashlight loop, mesh interior pockets for gear storage, external guy points for added stability in windy conditions, and noiseless zipper pulls.

Specifications

Dimensions: 108 x 108 x 71 inches
Interior height: 5 feet, 11 inches
Floor area: 81 square feet
Vestibule area: 43.6 square feet
Weight: 20 pounds, 15 ounces
Seasons: 3
Doors: 1
Windows: 2
Wall material: 68D 190T polyester ripstop
Floor material: 1800mm PU nylon-taffeta
Fly material: 75D 190T, 1800mm PU polyester ripstop
Number of poles: 4

About Kelty
Kelty is based in Boulder, Colorado, and uses the natural backdrop of the Rocky Mountains to test, create, and continually innovate within their diverse outdoor product families of Apex, Backcountry, Trail, Basecamp and KIDS gear. Kelty combines the best in new technology with a healthy dose of common sense to create exceptionally made, affordably priced outdoor products.

Amazon.com Tent Guide
Selecting a Tent
Fortunately, there are all kinds of tents for weekend car campers, Everest expeditions, and everything in-between. Here are a few things to keep in mind:

Expect the Worst
In general, it's wise to choose a tent that's designed to withstand the worst possible conditions you think you'll face. For instance, if you're a summer car camper in a region where weather is predictable, an inexpensive family or all purpose tent will likely do the trick--especially if a vehicle is nearby and you can make a mad dash for safety when bad weather swoops in! If you're a backpacker, alpine climber or bike explorer, or if you like to car camp in all seasons, you'll want to take something designed to handle more adversity.

Three- and Four-Season Tents
For summer, early fall and late spring outings, choose a three-season tent. At minimum, a quality three season tent will have lightweight aluminum poles, a reinforced floor, durable stitching, and a quality rain-fly. Some three-season tents offer more open-air netting and are more specifically designed for summer backpacking and other activities. Many premium tents will feature pre-sealed, taped seams and a silicone-impregnated rain-fly for enhanced waterproofness.

For winter camping or alpine travel, go with a four season model. Because they typically feature more durable fabric coatings, as well as more poles, four-season tents are designed to handle heavy snowfall and high winds without collapsing. Of course, four-season tents exact a weight penalty of about 10 to 20 percent in trade for their strength and durability. They also tend to be more expensive.

Domes and Tunnels
Tents are broadly categorized into two types, freestanding, which can stand up on their own, and those that must be staked down in order to stand upright. Freestanding tents often incorporate a dome-shaped design, and most four-season tents are constructed this way because a dome leaves no flat spots on the outer surface where snow can collect. Domes are also inherently stronger than any other design. Meanwhile, many three-season models employ a modified dome configuration called a tunnel. These are still freestanding, but they require fewer poles than a dome, use less fabric, and typically have a rectangular floor-plan that offers less storage space than a dome configuration. Many one and two-person tents are not freestanding, but they make up for it by being more lightweight. Because they use fewer poles, they can also be quicker to set up than a dome.

Size Matters
Ask yourself how many people you'd like to fit in your fabric hotel now and in the future. For soloists and minimalists, check out one-person tents. If you're a mega-minimalist, or if you have your eye on doing some big wall climbs, a waterproof-breathable bivy sack is the ticket. Some bivy sacks feature poles and stake points to give you a little more breathing room. Also, if you don't need bug protection and you want to save weight, check out open-air shelters.

Families who plan on car camping in good weather can choose from a wide range of jumbo-sized tents that will accommodate all your little ones with room to spare. A wide range of capacities is also available for three- and four-season backpacking and expedition tents. Remember, though, the bigger the tent you buy, the heavier it will be, although it's easy to break up the tent components among several people in your group. It's also helpful to compare the volume and floor-space measurements of models you're considering.

Product Details

Clip-sleeve construction
Mesh vestibule with pull-down shades
Watertight walls and mesh panels

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Customer Reviews

Roomy Tent - Great in Bad Weather - Lots of Nice Features

Review Date: September 11, 2005

Reviewer: L. Brennan, Harrisonburg, VA United States

I bought this tent 5 months ago and have spent many weekends this Summer living in it. I travel to a lot of music festivals and wanted something weather-proof, roomy, and tall enough to stand up in. These requirements were nicely met (and exceeded) by this tent. It is much roomier that your typical 4-person tent. At aproximately 9'X9', the interior easily fits a queen-size inflatible matteress with plenty of room on all sides for tons of gear. The nice thing about the height of this tent is that the roof is at its maximum height right inside the door - not just in the very center like most dome tents.

As far as being weather-proof, I've endured a few nasty wind and rain storms and I haven't gotten a drop of rain in it; The full-coverage rain fly on this tent is a wonderful feature. This tent also has lots of nice buckles, velcro, and elastic hooks secure everything firmly in place. Well-placed screening and vents keep air circulating in hot weather.

My gripes with this tent are few. One is that I've never been able to roll it up tight enough to fit all of the pieces back into the original carrying case. My other gripe is that the tent poles are so long, its difficult to set up in close quarters (between trees, other tents, etc.) and a bit of a struggle for one person.

I found the picture of this tent misleading and didn't understand the purpose of the ground flaps around the door until I saw it set up. The flaps secure the vestibule - a nice place to store your cooler, shoes, and chairs out of the weather or to use like a screen room to avoid insects. Go to the Kelty website to see a picture of the tent with the vestible attached.

All in all, I'm very happy I 'upgraded' from my usual department store-type tent to this much higher quality tent. Worth every penny!

great tent for the money!

Review Date: May 20, 2008

Reviewer: greg, ohio usa

we very much like this tent. It is well made and we just returned from a camp in all night rain and strong wind. Not a drop of water. It is not perfect, but very much worth the money we spent on it.

great tent, great price

Review Date: August 1, 2008

Reviewer: d.s., atlanta

great tent, great price. integrated front porch worked great. we got hit by a 3 hour thunderstorm the first night in ocoee, tn, and we had no leaks. it is kind of heavy but, it's a base camp kind of thing anyway.

Great tent, high ceiling, water proof and love the entry.

Review Date: September 12, 2009

Reviewer: C. A. Austin,

Simply great. Love the entry way for giving you space to take shoes off, keeping the tent clean. I left it up for a week in the back yard and it went thru a couple good storms and remained up and dry inside. I love the high ceiling and space inside, we had 2 adults and 3 children and 1 infant sleep in it (that is definetly the max). Only wish is that the tent had lighter polls, then it would be an awesome backpacking tent for a group of four (but I can't find any tents with these features that I like that has the lighter polls).

Best Festival Tent Ever!

Review Date: June 7, 2010

Reviewer: S.A.M., NY state

My partner and I bought this tent to bring to multiple day music festivals. We've brought it to two so far. The vestibule is perfect for shedding wet/muddy clothes/shoes and for storing chairs and coolers. As for the waterproof factor- we may have been the only dry tent campers at the festival! There were high winds and periodic downpours... all of which did not permeate the inside of the tent. Three adults slept comfortably. The side pockets in the tent are a bit small, but essential for storing precious items like eyeglasses, cell phones, and jewelry!
I highly recommend this tent.
My only complaint is the limited ventilation when the rain fly is on (which we left on the whole time because of the weather), but at least we were dry!

A+++

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