In this video, we'll be testing this
Coleman Evanston 6-Person Tent for its ease of set up, take down,
spaciousness, comfort, and more! I bought this Evanston 6-Person Tent from Amazon, and here's what it looks
like out of the box. Inside the package, I got the tent body, the rainfly, 14 stakes in a carry case, four poles
in another carry case, and a foot mat. I put affiliate links below
if you want to check it out. To set up this Coleman Evanston 6-Person
Tent, first grab these two black fiberglass poles for the tent body,
which are the longest poles, and insert them into these black tipped
pole sleeves at the center of the tent. Then, prop both poles up by securing each
end of both poles into one of these pins. Also, attach all the pole clips. Next, grab the gray pole,
which is the pole for the screen room. Insert this gray pole into the pole sleeve
at the front of the tent, prop the pole up, and secure
each end into the pins as well. The pole sleeve is also
color-coded with gray tips. Then, attach the two pole clips,
one on each side. Now, grab the last rainfly pole, which has these black tips at both ends,
insert it into the rainfly, and secure it with the two tiny
pockets, and two Velcro strips. Next, drape the rainfly over the tent,
with the green part over the screen room, and the white part over
the dome tent body. Secure these S-hooks of the rainfly to the rings at the bottom of the tent
where your poles are attached. After that, stake the Evanston Tent body down with seven stakes, and guy out the
entire tent with the seven pre-attached guylines.
I took my bro and I about nine minutes to set up the entire Evanston 6-Person
Tent, and I set up the entire tent on my own in about 17 and a half minutes,
so slightly less than double the time. Taking down the Coleman Evanston 6- Person Tent is just the opposite
of the set up, and it took my bro and I about six minutes for the entire
take down and pack up. On my own, it took me about twelve minutes,
so about double the time. For more details on the set up, take down, and pack up,
I have this separate video on my channel. The peak height in this Evanston 6- Person Tent is about 68 and a half inches,
and I can stand upright here. I'm also able to stand upright
even on thick queen mattresses. But this Evanston is a dome-shaped tent though, so the peak height
is only at the center. When I take two small steps around the tent, my head would touch
the top of the tent, like here. The rest of the tent just
slopes downwards too. The length inside the dome tent itself measures about 9 feet and 7 inches,
while the width measures about 8 feet and 9 inches, so slightly smaller than
the marketed dimensions of 10 by 9 feet. But I could still easily fit six
regular sleeping pads inside the tent, and here's what having six pads looks like. You do have to sleep shoulder to shoulder, but there's still this small space here
to fit a little bit of camping gear. I think it's a little bit of a tight fit though, especially if you have to sleep
at the corners of the tent, because my head touches the wall
of the tent when I sit up. I think having four people on two queen sized camping mattresses would
be a much more comfortable fit, and here's what the Evanston 6-Person
Tent looks like with these two mattresses. There's also quite a bit of leftover space for storing gear, which is
always very nice to have. One of my mattresses is actually slightly smaller than a queen, which is
why it fit nicely into the tent. Otherwise, the length of the tent is actually a few inches shy of being
able to fit two queen beds. The Evanston 6-Person Tent also
comes with this extra screen room. This screen room has a width of about 5 feet,
and the longest length is about 9 feet and 7 inches, which is
the same as the dome tent. It tapers off a bit at the front though, so the shortest length is only
about 7 feet and 4 inches. The peak height in this screen
room is only about 62 inches, so even though I could kind of almost stand upright, my head is pushing
up on the top of the mesh though. This Evanston 6-Person Tent has
three windows in the entire tent. Well, technically four windows, if this is considered as two windows. There's one window on each wall of the
tent, and the last wall is a mesh wall. All the windows are about the same size, this window measures about 46 by 23 inches,
while the double window on this wall here measures about 51 by 21 inches,
so only very slightly bigger. Each window comes with a window latch
to hold the fabric when the window is open, two white zippers, and also a bug net
to prevent larger bugs from getting in. The Evanston 6-Person Tent has one door
on the front length of the dome tent. It measures about 47 inches in length, and 26 inches in width, so
honestly, not very big, and here's what it looks like
when I stand in front of it. It also measures about 52 inches
from the ground to the top of the door, and I'm about five foot three, so I had to duck when getting
in and out of the tent through this door. This door comes with a single latch to tie
the door fabric up to keep it open, and it also comes with two black
zippers to zip it open and shut. The screen room of this Evanston 6-
Person Tent comes with another one door. It spans almost the entire length
of the screen room, measuring about 7 feet and 3 inches in length,
so it's really quite big. It's about 55 inches in height,
so a little taller, but I still had to duck when getting
in and out of the screen room. The door of the screen room comes with two door latches, one on either side of the
door, to hold the fabric when it's open. It also comes with three black zippers. If the front length of the screen room
isn't taut, I highly recommend re-staking it, so that zipping it open and shut
is much easier. For storage, there are two pockets inside this Evanston 6-Person Tent, each measuring
about nine by seven inches. There's also one loop at the top of the center of the tent, where you can
hang a lantern at night for some lighting. There's also one more loop
here over one of the windows. I put this Evanston 6-Person Tent
through quite a few rain tests, and if you want more details, you can
check out this short video on my channel. But anyway, here's the gist of it. Under light rain, the Evanston tent worked
great with no leaks, and I was able to leave not just the
windows open, but also the door as well. But the flooring of the screen room got wet, because there just isn't enough
rainfly to cover the entire screen room. Under heavy rainfall though,
and I tested it using this water hose, this Evanston Tent was able to stand up to the heavy rain for about 30 minutes,
and then I started noticing a few drops of water trickling in. This seam
connecting the green tent fabric and the bathtub flooring
was pretty much soaked after 30 minutes, though
the fabric around the tent was still dry. The screen room is
completely drenched though. Also, there's quite a big gap at the two edges of the screen room,
which let in quite a big puddle of water. I found this Evanston 6-Person Tent
quite well ventilated. On a hot day without the rainfly, which is
removable from the outside, the three windows, and especially
the mesh wall, is pretty big. And of course, the screen room has even more ventilation with the rainfly
off. On a rainy day with the rainfly in place though, the mesh wall forms a vent,
which looks like this. It spans almost the entire length
of the tent, which is nice. I was able to stake down the rainfly and leave this vent open,
not just in light rain, moderate rain, but heavy rain as well,
and no water got into the tent. I was also able to leave all my windows
and doors completely opened in light to moderate rain, and no water
got into the tent at all. In heavy rain though,
even though the rainfly did quite a good job of protecting the window
mesh from the heavy rain with these window awnings, the bottom
of the mesh still got wet. The top was still fine though, so I could
actually leave it slightly open. The flooring of this Evanston 6-Person
Tent is made of polyethylene, and the bathtub feature extends
up to about seven inches. Even after 30 minutes of pouring rain, no
water seeped through the flooring itself. The rainfly is made of 75D polyester taffeta, while the rest of the tent is
made of 68D polyester, and it stayed completely dry after
30 minutes of heavy rain as well. All the seams inside the tent have not been seam taped, and only some of them are
inverted, like this green tent fabric to bathtub flooring seam, this vertical seam,
and this white to green tent fabric seam. The seams of the Evanston Tent are generally good quality,
double-stitched, and consistent, with maybe a few small exceptions,
but these weren't big issues to me. The mesh is just regular mesh, not no-
see-um mesh, and it's decent quality. The zippers are also decent quality,
and all of them are catch-free. I didn't have any snagging issues on the windows, and also no snagging issues
on both the tent door and also the screen room door. But one of my zippers didn't
come with the attached cord though. All the poles of this Evanston tent are made of fiberglass, and are color-
coded for a pretty easy set up. This Evanston 6-Person Tent has a packed size of 26 by 15 by 12 inches,
and here's what it looks like beside a Coleman 2-Person Sundome Tent and a 32-ounce Nalgene bottle for a size
comparison. It weighs about 19.5 pounds for everything. For pros, I found
the base area super generous in size. The dome tent has a base area
of 83.6 square feet, and the screen room has a base area of
42.3 square feet, for a total base area of 126 square feet. This is actually about 20 square feet bigger than
my Coleman Montana 8-Person Tent, which has a base area
of only about 103 square feet. Another humongous advantage of this
Evanston tent is that it's super affordable, even though it's bigger
than some eight person tents out there. I actually paid about $40 less
for my Evanston tent than I did from my Montana 8-Person tent
and my Red Canyon 8-Person Tent. I also really liked that I had quite a bit
of ventilation not just on hot days, but rainy days as well,
because of these window awnings. Even in heavy rain,
ventilation is not too bad. The rain protection is also decent. Obviously not the best,
but better than I expected. I still highly recommend at least sealing
the bathtub flooring seam, and also the corners if you're expecting
many hours of heavy rain. I also liked that I was able to stand
upright at the peak height. If you found this helpful so far,
please help me hit that like button. Thank you, and I really appreciate it. As for cons, I think the biggest one is that there's hardly any rainfly
protection for the screen room, so even in light rain, water gets into the screen room,
not to mention in heavy rain. If you want this to be protected, you'd need to buy an extra
tarp or canopy or something. Also, it was annoying to have to drain the water out of the screen
room after the rain. I tried to use this mesh area as drainage, but it wasn't very good, and I just had
to sweep all the water off myself. The mesh area also traps a bit of dirt
and grass when trying to pack up. A smaller con is that the packed size
of this Evanston 6-Person Tent is as big as my Montana 8-Person Tent, and here's
what they both look like together. But overall, I feel that the cons are
pretty insignificant, especially compared to the advantages
that you get in terms of having a humongous base area, and how
low the price of this tent is. I think it's great value for money, and I
would definitely recommend this tent. But wait, before you buy this,
would you like to know how this Evanston 6-Person Tent compares to other similar tents,
like other Coleman tents? If so, you can click
on this video right here. I'll put it up when it's ready,
so do check it out. Thank you for watching,
and I'll see you in the next one.
