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Tents & Accessories | Home » » » Eureka! Tetragon 5 - Tent (sleeps 2) | | | | | | | Description: | | This recreational tent is a great value, stable, easy to pitch and it comes in a series of multiple sizes to fit any adventure! | | | Features: | |
• 2-person, 3-season rectangular dome tent with 35 square feet of interior space
• Double-coated StormShield polyester fly and bathtub floor for weather protection
• Twin-track, side-opening door and brimmed rear window; 2 ventilation vents
• Hanging gear loft and 2 detachable interior storage pockets for gear and essentials
• Base measures 7 by 5 feet; stands 48 inches tall; weighs 5 pounds 3 ounces
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 24.7 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.9 inches | | Product Height:
| 5.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 6.8 pounds | | Package Length:
| 24.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 6.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 78 reviews |
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84 of 86 found the following review helpful:
 Lightweight and STRONGJun 16, 2007
By Rowe Rowe
"floydian"
For the price, I figured this was the dirt tent.
I was wrong...When I opened this tent, I water proofed it first thing. Sealed the seams and the fly. Left it outside and of course, we got a healthy DUMPING of rain! It wasn't intentional but as it turned out, it was the ultimate test. This tent does not have high marks for water resistant but let me tell you that after sealing it, it DOES! Like all other EUREKA tents, this one has the "bathtub" bottom which means they designed it to stay dry by engineering the material to have little seams AT the bottom. Instead they are sewn 3-4 inches above the ground line which creates a lip that keeps the whole bottom dry. You have to step over it to get in but ... who cares! Once sealed, this tent hits a home run!
So now the durability test: The kids played in the tent for three days. I have two boys that know how to test stuff, believe me! Little did I know that they were playing ball with the dog and were tossing the ball inside the tent. I was horrified to watch the dog jumping in and out of the tent. Oh, the dog tried to jump through the screen as well! AUUGHH...but the tent not only survived, it came out unscathed. The fabric is VERY tough and took a beating with no scratches!
The tent was easily packed into a hiking backpack and is very lightweight. The room inside is terrific and you CAN share it with two full adults if you HAD to. I don't recommend it unless you really LIKE that other adult. he he...
Overall, this tent rocks. My only thing is that between the tent price and the shipping, I paid too much for it. :( ($60)
It was on sale at our local *grocery store* for much less!
*DOH*
So Amazon is great and you get good research but sometimes it doesn't hurt to look locally once you are finished because the vendors charge WAY to much for shipping and thats disappointing. This does not take away from the tent itself though. This tent is the best backpacking tent I've had bar none.
21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
Great Tent for packpacking for twoMar 13, 2008
By Vincent N. Horne
I have used this tent on four backpacking trips and it is awesome for the money. It is 1) lightweight 2) very fast to set up 3) very sturdy in moderately high winds 4) reliable zipper, etc. 5) strong poles
When alone I can fit my entire backpack and my 6'1" self easily inside (if taller than this you'll need to sleep diagonally). The gear loft overhead is nice, and you can sit up for changing clothes. Have shared it with another person on one winter packpack trip (recently in Shenendoah Nat Park) and there was plenty of room for sleeping for two without being on top of each other. I've been rained on only once, slightly, and it kept me dry. On one backpack trip with 11 people to Mount Mitchell, mine seemed to be the only tent that didn't have condensation all over the top of it in the early AM.
I do recommend buying some of the inexpensive aluminum pole stakes at REI or similar, to replace the metal ones it comes with, if you want to save a few ounces more weight.
Overall outstanding value.
21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
Good all Weather TentOct 26, 2007
By T. Burgess
I've had this tent for a little over a year now, and have taken it out camping about 8 times so far. With the exception of one trip we've gotten rained on every single time. The last time we went we were out in the open (on the beach) with 20-30 mph winds and heavy rains for most of the night. I've never done any additional waterproofing and I have never gotten wet in this tent. It sets up easy, even in the dark, and easily fits 2 adults and their essentials (change of clothes, water, etc). A good tip for setting this tent up is to make sure its set up with one of the sides facing into the wind, because if it rains the fly will offer the most protection that way. One thing I would like would be a little more privacy when the rain fly was off, but overall I have enjoyed this tent. It has kept me warm and dry from March-November in Pennsylvania.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Right PriceJun 25, 2007
By Eli Oliver
After shopping for a light weight tent for a backpacking trip for my son, I thought I'd have to pay big bucks to get one. Most of the inexpensive ones were pretty heavy in weight. I saw this one and picked it up. It's nearly as light as the really costly ones, but at a fraction of the price.
It set up easily and kept us nice and warm for our week long trip. Great tent for the money. I was very pleased.
Amendment: Another week long trip, this one rainy and windy at times. The tent held up great and did not leak at all. We did treat the rain fly with a water repellent
The person complaining that rain was getting them wet because the wind was blowing it in, had made a tenderfoot mistake in setting up the tent. One should always angle the tent so that the wind hits it from the side where the rain fly is close to the ground. The wind cannot catch it and the rain will not blow in. Even the most expensive tent will allow rain in if not set up properly. We're talking tents here not condos. No tent is completely rain proof.
66 of 80 found the following review helpful:
 We got wet.Aug 18, 2007
By wild animals
My sister and I went camping this week, and we took a huuuuge tent with us, which we quickly grew irritated with; it just took too long to set up, and we'd planned to set it up and tear it down each day. So on the second day of our trip, we went to the store and bought this Eureka tent. It's 7x5' and it uses clips instead of channels to attach the tent to the poles, so we thought it'd be perfect. We brought it to our site and set it up in no time, and when the time was right, we went to sleep. When we woke up, we were WET! Everything near the perimeter of the tent was wet. It was awful. The cloth itself is not waterproof, so it lets water through, and then, later, since the cloth has absorbed water, it's still wet when you're trying to put the tent away. The fly doesn't zip over the door, so the rain can (and will) blow in there and seep through the zipper. We had to go buy a plastic painting dropcloth and stake it out over the tent so we wouldn't wake up rained on again. I'm really surprised at all of the 4- and 5-star reviews for this, because we were really unhappy.
Before it started raining, we thought this was a great tent with a couple of shortcomings--cheesy poles and blousy fabric near our heads--which are to be expected at the price we paid! So I guess if you're in a dry climate (we're in Oregon), it's probably a good buy. I'm giving this tent 2 stars, though, because the packaging says "STORMSHIELD" all over it, which is ridiculous. But for a predictably dry climate, I'd give this tent four stars.
Just want to mention again that the tent leaked through the FABRIC, not just the seams or around the zips, so we'd have to have waterproofed the whole thing, not just the seams, to keep it from leaking.
To be fair to Eureka, it's possible that the tent we received was defective.
We replaced it with a Coleman Sundome, which kept us dry. We put up the Eureka properly, but if you find that hard to believe, then I will condescend to endorse the Coleman Sundome as a tent that will keep you dry even if you are incapable of putting up a tent properly.
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