No More Roughing It: How Wall Tents Bring Luxury to Camping

There are no rules for camping. Over the years we have seen the birth of products that elevate the camping experience or make doing a lot of things easy. While wall tents are not a new invention, they have been a favorite amongst the outdoor community because they offer so much room and potential to customize a camping trip as one prefers.

What Makes Wall Tents Ideal for Luxury Living?

Wall tents are modeled after actual houses. They have ample walking space and headspace. An occupant can transport their entire room into the wall tent, and then some. You can install a wood fire stove inside a canvas wall tent. This has a dual function: it keeps you warm during winter glamping, and you can cook indoors without having to do the balancing act over the communal campfire.

The excellent airflow and ventilation means you will not have to worry about feeling suffocated inside the tent where the air turns stale, and the smells are unable to escape.

The material used for crafting the tent canvas is a quality white duck. White duck is made from a blend of cotton and other fibers. It makes for a reliable shelter that does not deteriorate under heat and rain, nor does it damage easily thanks to its thick canvas weave.

How to Pick the Perfect Site

Apart from picking the right tent, you also have to prioritize choosing the correct campsite. You need to do this well in advance, lest you find that the campsite you prefer is fully booked.

Some of the things that you need to consider when it comes to a good campsite is what the site offers other than just a spot for you to park your tent. You need to call the visitors center and inquire what activities they offer. Some sites offer walking tours of the neighboring terrain. Some offer tours of famous landmarks nearby and daily activities such as quad biking, archery, and other outdoor activities.

If you do not want to dole out cash every day for a new activity, make sure you find a campsite that is closer to the places you can hike around yourself. If the nearest museum, zoo, or national park is a 5 to 10-minute drive away, you don’t have to go on guided tours.

Another thing to consider when choosing the campsite is who the site is primarily for. Is it for trailers or tents? If you are one of the few tents on that site, you may not want your view outside the tent to be obstructed by a sheet of metal and your neighbor’s tiny van window.

Why Mix Luxury with Traditional Camping?

The popular term given to camping with style and comfort is glamping. The reason it works and is being adopted so quickly by everyone is that it doesn’t take away the rewards of rugged camping.

People go camping for their mental and physical well-being. If you enhance that experience with a comfortable bed, and running water, this only improves on the experience instead of diminishing it. You get to be a part of nature, explore the outdoors, breathe fresh air, and wake up every day refreshed taking on a new adventure, instead of heading into rush hour traffic towards work.

Moreover, mixing luxury with traditional camping is not that difficult. You can use your wall tents for hunting as your glamping tents. Canvas tents have the design and functionality to easily become a glamping tent for you and your family.

Occasions that Call for Glamping

The unique thing about glamping is that not only does it offer quality time with nature, it also gives you a chance to have quality time with your family, or the people you decide to include in your camping party. By adding amenities to your tent, you ensure that everyone is enjoying themselves and does not feel crabby over having to go without modern luxuries that they enjoy at home.

Glamping sites have been evolving fast all over the country. They want you to have the best experience no matter what the occasion with services such as a pantry of luxury items, picnic spots that you can book, etc.

You can glamp for your annual family vacation, to celebrate a birthday, go on a romantic weekend getaway, a treat for your father on Father’s Day, and a reunion with friends who may have moved away.

How to Transform Your Camp into a Glamp

Cozy Bedding

Skip buying new sleeping bags for the trip. You can use your bed frame and mattress inside your wall tent. This way you do not have to give up the comfort of home. To elevate the experience you can always add more pillows and a weighted blanket. Campers sometimes add a hammock inside their tent or an air mattress on the ground where they can nap during the day.

The important thing to remember is to pack an insulating layer. Depending on where you are camping, you need to pack an adequate blanket and sheets. You may even have to pack a thick rug to protect you from the cold ground when you are inside the tent and not wearing heavy-duty hiking boots.

Ambient Lights

Traditional camping calls for torches and lamps. Here you can use varied lighting. When setting up a canvas tent for 4 seasons, you can string fairy lights all around the top of the wall from where you have tethered the tent. Because of its giant structure, you can even install solar-powered lamps at the entrance of your tent.

Inside you should have lights on top of the lounge area as well as the kitchen area if you have set one. If your bed takes up most of your interior you can set up lamps on the bedside tables.

Pick Out Your Camping Furniture

While the inside of a glamp looks exactly like your home, you should be downsizing a bit. For example, instead of a living room sofa, you can use a futon with floor cushions. If you do not like sitting on the ground, you can use a rattan chair.

Instead of a wooden closet go for the collapsible wardrobes that you hike up like a tent with zip closures for doors. Similar products from Ikea take two minutes to set up, look amazing, and weigh nothing.

If you’re planning on working during the trip, you can set an outdoor chair right outside the door flap. This way you can enjoy the view and take calls and meetings without the distracting sounds of your family using the entertainment system.

Create a Lounge / Living Room

You need a communal space for everyone to come together and play board games or watch a movie on the projector. This could be where you unwind after a long day of hiking or where you set up a portable lamp to read a book. An indoor living area is vital if you are camping during the winter months where you cannot set up a table and friendly circle outside.

Think Spa

To take it up a notch, pack spa products. You can allocate a spa space where you use masks and hair treatments inside the tent. Wall tents allow campers to attach the shelter next to a functioning bathroom. If your campsite has glamping foundations built next to private bathrooms, this makes it easy. You can take bath bombs, foot scrubs, and other concoctions to start your relaxing getaway.

Survive on Something Other than Trail Mix and Tinned Food

When you are camping in luxury you ignore the weight that stacks up for everything you have packed. Utilize this, and pack food items that you know you and the family will enjoy. Wall tents come with stove jacks, so you can cook indoors. You can use this as an activity too where everyone pitches in to create a meal or helps out with extravagant recipes. Remember when you are picking out a stove, pick a multi-burner stove so you can prepare several things at once.

Plan Entertainment For Every Day

It would be a mistake to leave this part of your trip to “We will cross that bridge when we get there.”

By planning activities in advance you can book guided activities before they are sold out. You can pack additional equipment or clothing you may need from home instead of regretting not having those items on the day of. You do not have to think and strategize while you are on your break, you just follow the plan stress-free.