Almost all car camping tents aim to be easy to pitch, so you don’t have to spend hours of your vacation in frustration, but can get the tent set up with ease and return to hanging out with the family.

In our latest test, the best car camping tents were:

Mountainsmith Conifer 5+
Nemo Wagontop 4p
Coleman Long Peak 6
Big Agnes Chimney Creek 4
Kelty Airlift 4

These spacious models are sold in capacities ranging from 4-8 people, and can fit several adults and a few kids. This is the perfect platform for getting the whole family to enjoy the outdoors together. Sometimes, a product will include a “+” to indicate that a dog or extra gear can easily fit along with the specified number of occupants.

Car camping tents are not meant to be carried in a backpack or toted for any distance longer than from your trunk to campsite, so they are not compact or lightweight items. Not being constrained by weight concerns, they are made of heavier and more durable materials that can last longer and be more weatherproof than the materials used on a fragile backpacking tent. This also results in rather large packed sizes, but since you don’t need to stuff it in a backpack, this is inconsequential.

We performed our latest tent test in 2016, when we rounded up five car camping palaces and evaluated them side by side. We timed our testers when setting up each tent and tried each model in a wide range of weather and terrain.