Top 7: Best Ultralight Backpacking Tents 2023

great video, concise and very informative, well done & thank you, David, more please

Excellent overview of key features. Thanks!

I love my nemo hornet. I went camping with some friends and they spent almost 45mins setting up their tent. I showed up late and took all of 10mins to put mine up. They were jealous and a month later they all bought something like mine.

I love my Copper Spur! I got mine last year on sale, I got the 2P size, which in the tent world is really a 1 person tent. I tried a HVUL1, and it was just too tight for me, and had not room for my gear. I like the double vestibules- I use the "back door' one to keep my muddy, stinky hiking boots at night. Just great all around tents. I used a Eureka timberline 2 for 30 years (yes, the same tent from when I was a teenager in the early 90's, and my timberline 4 (great car camping tent)....the big agnes forced at least my old Timberline 2 into retirement, haha.

Nice review! Love that Marmot. I've always liked that Marmot Tungsten2.

great review of light summer, 1 season, fair weather tents.

MSR NX2. I own a prototype MSR model, just by chance.I have had this tent for about 20 years. This Tent is still the best.

I am ecstatic with my personal experience with the REI Quarter Dome SL 1. It has provided me with serious shelter protection during a recent overnight @ 9,735' here in Nevada. Mother nature started blowing ferociously strong gusty winds for hours. I was starting to shiver from the windchill. Once inside, my tent provided me with protection from the cold wind & my air mattress & sleeping bag provided me with what I need to get warm & stay warm. I would have most likely perished due to hypothermia had it not been for my tent, mattress, & sleeping bag. Fortunately, I put heavy rocks on top of all 10 tent stakes that would otherwise have been pulled out of the ground due to the ferocious cold, gusty wind velocity. I DO NOT carry trekking poles.

Great reviews! A review of the Z-packs tents would be awesome. Very much ultralight per square foot.

Cheers Mate!

Ill take the Nemo Dagger 3 and MSR Hubba Hubba

Nice video. Good that you give a quick review without faffing about. How do you rate Exped tents such as the Lyra? Also Alpkit Javan? To be honest though none of these tents are budget. Also they look like they wouldn’t last 5 minutes in the UK. It rains here, we have gusty strong winds blowing the rain horizontally, the ground is stoney and would make a hole in the groundsheet in seconds, and twigs and wind blown cats would puncture the fly sheet. All that mesh! It would be freeeeeezing! And look at the colours! How are you supposed to stealth camp without being spotted and shot by the farmer? Also if these are American tents where do you store your guns?

I got an MSR Hubba Hubba NX 2p, found a wicked sale for $200 off CAD and needed it for my college program! :)

Reading specifications and making decisions isn't "real world", although it helps. I have the Nemo Hornet 2P and bought it for a number of reasons. What I didn't find out, until after using it, is that the shortened fly causes rain to fall on the tent body and run down between the tent floor and your fly so that over time you get water into your tent. The Big Agnes Flycreek has a larger fly so "I think" solves this problem although I don't have it so don't really know. And, weight is extremely important so not talking about it leaves an important part out. Finally, using pictures which have exposed ground sheets isn't the best. If actually set up like this and it rains you'll get rain between the ground sheet and the tent and that water will then come up through the bottom of the tent.

Many people complain (2021-2022) about micro-splinters from the poles of the Hubba Hubba. Luckily, I was reading reviews at REI and avoided buying or considering this tent for now. Some doesn’t seem to care, I do. (I love the quality of MSR and proudly bought Mountaineering tents in the past with excellent results; I hope they address this particular concern of the carbon poles).

Hi, I´ve got the NTK Windy 1 person tent. It´s excellent !!!

Did you look at the Outdoor Vitals Dominion 2 person tent?

I went for a BA Fly Creek HV 2 it's not easy to pitch in a wind but once up no flapping weighs about 800 gms which is insane for a sub £300 tent. Makes you look for a sheltered pitch so method in the madness I suppose.

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Ever heard of Hyperlite Mountain Gear Ultamid 2 or ZPacks :D ?