Wenzel Big Piney 2 Room 16 x 8-Foot Family Tent

by Wenzel

Product Features

• Family Dome Sleeps 6 comfortably in 116 square foot of space
• Base, floor is 16 feet long by 8 feet wide with a center height of 74" for standing pleasure
• Back -to-back Dutch "D" style doors for easy tent access
• Hanging divider curtain creates two separate rooms, each with its own door
• Removable fly with hoop frame over front door and rear window

Product Description

Product Description

Ideal for weekend camping trips with family and friends, Wenzel's Big Piney 16 by 8-foot, two-room family tent sleeps up to seven campers and adds privacy with its two-room design. A removable room divider allows you to have one large room or two smaller ones. Two Dutch 'D' style doors provide convenient entry and exit points while five windows offer great ventilation. A rugged polyethylene floor provides long-term durability and protection from the elements; welded seams offer additional reinforcements.

The Big Piney tent also features a Weather Armor polyester fly with a 600mm coating, which will resist UV damage and won't sag in wet weather. A fiberglass shockcorded frame with pin-and-ring and sleeve-and-pocket attachments make set up easy. Additional convenient features include hooded windows on the front door and back wall, a gear loft for overhead storage, and a flashlight loop.

Key Features

• Sleeps: 6-7
• Weight: 16 pounds, 10 ounces
• Area: 116 square feet
• Pole size: 11mm, 8.5mm, and 6.3mm
• 1000D polyethylene floor with welded seams
• Fly Material: 1.9 oz. polyester Taffeta 600mm coating
• Wall Material: 1.9 oz. polyester Taffeta 600mm coating
• Roof Material: polyester mosquito mesh/1.9 oz. polyester Taffeta 600mm coating
• Netting polyester mosquito mesh
• Two Dutch 'D' style side by side doors
• Five windows and roof vents
• Shock-corded fiberglass frame
• Pin and ring attachments
• Sleeve and clip
• Polyester taffeta sidewalls
• Hooded windows in the front door and back wall
• Gear loft for overhead storage
• Two gear pockets will store small stuff
• Flashlight loop

What's in the Box?
Tent, rainfly, poles, stake bags

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 Description

Weather Armor polyester fabric provides our tent with tremendous reliability and toughness and is enhanced with an additional polyurethane coating, that protects the tent from top to bottom. Made with our sonic sealed floors that are welded, not sewn, therefore eliminating stitching and needle holes that create another potential area for water to penetrate. Armor tough seams throughout the body of the tent, are done with our sewing technique that incorporates double stitched, lap-feld seams that provide a stronger shingle effect against water. Weather Armor details have all threads, zippers and webbing treated with superior water repellency applications to enforce these critical areas. The included rain shingle layer on the lower portion of the tent wall provides a water shed effect.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 9.5 x 8.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 18.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000HBXHGG
• Item model number: 36329.00
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,811 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great tent for the price, April 6, 2007

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T. Scherer (Somewhere out here) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wenzel Big Piney 2 Room 16 x 8-Foot Family Tent (Sports)

I bought this tent for Spring Vacation for the children and I.

I did not set this tent up before going on vacation to the coast in Oregon.

Once we got to the campsite and I took it out of the box;the directions were easy and it was easy to set up, but I have set up tents before.

There are 6 poles, 2 of which you really don't have to use if you don't want too as they just go for small flaps over doorway and in the back over window, I did not use them camping, but do now use them with the tent set up at home in the yard for the kids.

In compairing size of the tent to the price with other tents, this tent is a very large tent for the money I paid.

I am happy with it, I am happy with it and the extra room is great for putting everything in the tent you don't want to leave out when leaving camp for the day.

It rained very hard the first night camping, the wind blew awful too.

The tent comes with great stakes and metal rings on the corners not just rings sewed into the material itself. I really like that.

At one point I thought the tent would blow away with us in it. It never did. It held fast using the system of directions they provided and that was amazing to me!

I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 only because it is not the quality of tent that more expensive tents are (ie zippers), but it is a great tent for the money.

I would buy this tent again if I could still get it for the price I paid of alittle over $80.00 and it qualified for free shipping which was wonderful.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great tent for the money, May 5, 2008

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R. Andrew Wallingsford (Nashville, Tennessee) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wenzel Big Piney 2 Room 16 x 8-Foot Family Tent (Sports)

The tent was ordered on 4/29/08 and it arrived on 05/01/08 I assembled it when I got home in about 20 minutes alone by myself with little help from the directions. It has been about 25 years since my boy scout days since I've put up a tent and was very impressed with the ease of assembly. I did apply a seam sealer to the rain fly and windows/doors and such(which should be done on any tent no matter the brand or cost). I camped in it on Friday 05/02/08 and had a huge test for my new tent. During the night I had a severe thunderstorm that dumped about 2 1/2 inches of rain, 25-40 mph winds, horrific lightning and tornado watch all over middle Tenneessee all of this in a time frame of 2 hours. I naturally had a few very minor drips inside the tent and some water coming around the bottom of the door, but with that amount of water and wind I knew I would have some, but pleased with how it held up. The only thing I did not like was the open vents along the top of the tent. This will be great for ventilation when warm outside, but with its design a 35-40 degree night is gonna be a cold because of the open roof design.

The ease of assembly, the strength of structure once it is assembled, the appearance and the fact that there is enough room inside the tent for my small family and my 2 large Labs and my gear has made me happy with this purchase and I highly recommend this tent to anyone.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Leaks!!!, June 5, 2008

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Wendy Baldwin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wenzel Big Piney 2 Room 16 x 8-Foot Family Tent (Sports)

This tent is supposed to be water proof but I bought it for my birthday weekend and it only lightly rained and it seemed like nothing got wet until we packed up to go home and there were puddles of water under my air mattress that were coming from the corners of the tent....All four corners....

So I was pretty upset since it was brand new and that was my first use of it but I took it back to the store right away and got my money back for it so that was good.