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Buyer's Guide
Your tent is the heaviest single thing in your pack after the pack itself, and the one piece of gear you cannot improvise when the weather turns. We ranked the 2026 field the way we rank everything: by whether every ounce earns its place. From the ultralight benchmark most experienced backpackers eventually buy to the $150 budget tent that made the category affordable, plus one honest warning about the car-camping tent people keep trying to carry up a mountain.
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