Eureka! Copper Canyon LX, 3 Season, Family and Car Camping Tent (4, 6, 8 or 12 Person)

This is my second Copper Canyon. So, here we go. I have heard and seen comments about the material of the floor. I can’t totally disagree. But I have owned two of these and I have never had a problem with the floor. I have also ..except for a minute here or there to set things up… never actually directly set foot on the floor of my tent. And the bottom of my tent has never directly touched the ground. My tent always sits on a ground sheet. And I always put a 10 x 10 tarp on the floor of the tent as soon as I open the door after I set it up.Warning about ground sheet/footprint: This tent has what is called a bathtub floor. Although it is a 10 x 10 tent if you go by common wisdom and buy a 9.5 x 9.5“ ground sheet or footprint you’re going to end up with problems. You will end up with water between your footprint in the bottom of your tent, and this will cause you some condensation and other problems Your ground sheet needs to be no more than 9 x 9. Mine is 8.5 x 8.5. If you don’t understand the concept of a bathtub floor, I don’t want to get into it here. Other than to strongly advise you to not buy the footprint for this tent and to create a ground sheet that is no more than the dimensions I mentioned.Inside. The floor of this tent is 10 x 10. When you are standing up in this tent at nose level if you look around the tent, it has only slanted into about 9 1/2 x 9 1/2. The walls are virtually straight. So basically you have a 10 x 10 bedroom. Most people don’t have 10 x 10‘ of uncluttered unused space in their bedrooms at home. We have furniture, we have beds, etc., etc.I use this tent by myself with my 80 pound dog. I think it’s good for two people. I think that the rating tent makers give up as far as how many people their tents are meant for are hilarious.There is enough room in the tent so that with my mattress on the floor, my dog‘s pretty pretty big bed on the floor, there is still lots of room for me to sit inside with a side table without feeling claustrophobic if it’s raining outside. If you have one of those chairs with foot extensions, you’re more than fit . If you are going camping for a couple of days, maybe three or four and don’t wanna bother putting up a rain canopy. You will love this tent. It is so roomy inside.There is an opening for an electrical cord. I use this tent in temperatures as low as the mid 30s at campgrounds where I have electrical hook ups. I use safe space heaters. And there are such things. Do you keep this in mind: the top of the tent is screened. It’s meant that way so condensation gets out. If you’re going to use it in the winter time, make sure you take a tarp and throw it over the top of the tent.This can be set up by one person. You’ll have a little trouble getting the fly over the top. A great hint/work around is this: Each guy ropes for the rain fly stuff into a little pocket. Put a rock in the pockets. It gives you enough weight to throw the tarp over the top. This is my second copper Canyon. My understanding is they discontinued this tent and the newer version is about $150 more. I have taken a look at it on multiple websites and I absolutely do not see anything is worth an additional 25 bucks let alone 150. It is virtually the same tech with a new name. If you’re able to get your hand on one of these I suggest you buy it. If you’re looking at this review because you’re looking to buy a used one from someone. Set it up. Make sure it is in good shape. And buy it before someone else does.I’ve also seen where people say it doesn’t hold up to wind. I use it to camp on top of the Blue Ridge Parkway. There’s a campground on top of Mount Pisgah. When it rains there, it rains pretty hard. I’ve never had a problem. I will say that over the years. I have had to use a towel to wipe up a little bit of water that gets in when I open the door. I don’t wanna mislead you. I also see where people complain about the way the doors zip. With that, I agree. The doors can be a pain in the butt. However, like anything else you get used to it. They are certainly very, very, very far from being a dealbreakerAll in all, this is an amazing tent. You are basically bringing a 10 x 10 bedroom with you.

We got this for a family of four (two kids/two adults), and it feels neither too big nor too small. We've set it up twice, and had it up for about a three weeks combined since purchase. Paid retail price from an Amazon seller & wasn't asked to review.I'd describe it as a solid three season tent, it does a good enough job (w/included rain fly) of keeping the wind/rain out, but on hot days you really can open up everything and have nice air flow (bug free!). It likely could cope in some legit winter weather, but cold air can sneak between rain fly and roof depending on wind (though not rain).The amenities are great: inc. divider, several pockets, two power port zipper cutouts, door awning, lantern hook/roof basket, floor hooks for a covering, and an actually usable bag.The thing I like most though is how flexible all the windows/doors are. There's like four different configurations for the window (e.g. half open/2x diagonal open/full open) and you get the bug screen regardless. Also while in any configuration you can adjust the straps to either have it tight against the tent wall or loose for improved airflow (without loss of privacy/light leakage).The floor is all up-turned and has been waterproof (even when we got water trapped under the tent, opps!).In general the tent feels really tight, like between iterations and or thought, they've just got a tent that is really well-designed with thoughtful details throughout that you don't really appreciate until much later. It is just thousands of "little details." Like the Velcro on the doors in addition to two zippers, or the divider's toggles to use it multiple different ways, it is small but you'd miss it if it were missing.I'd buy it again. I'd also recommend it. Unfortunately I don't have enough negative/critical to add to make this review more helpful, sometimes products are just solid.PS - I ordered a tarp for under that was exactly 13 ft by 10 ft. Too big. While the footprint likely is around 13x10ft, due to the shape the tarp sticks out slightly on both ends and water can get under. If you're in the market for a tarp for this, I'd look for around 12 ft by 9 ft.

Great tent for the price, nice and roomy, fairly easy to setup. Stayed dry on a rainy night. My only complaint so far is that the zipper covers are so floppy and thin they get stuck on the zipper almost every time the door is opened or closed. You have to do some weird finger hack where you stick your finger out of the door and keep the zipper flap lifted up a little while working the zipper. Super annoying, but the rest of the tent experience is great. So if you can get over the zipper issue it's a great tent for the price for family camping at a tent site.