Ground Tents

A ground tent costs a fraction of a roof top tent, adds nothing to your roof, and stays pitched while you drive into town for ice. That last one matters more than people expect — with an RTT, breaking camp is the price of every side trip.

Here: Gazelle’s pop-up hub tents, C6 Outdoor’s REV Tent, shelters and tarps from Muraco and Camping Moon, and tent-hammock hybrids from Kammok and GrandTrunk.

You sleep on the dirt and you pitch it yourself. For a lot of trips, that is a fair swap.