The cabin-style Eureka Copper Canyon 6 tent offers 7 feet of standing room at its peak, with an all-mesh roof that lets everybody stargaze on clear nights. This tent isn’t designed for weathering storms, but zip-up windows and a partial rainfly do help it ride out wind and rain. The Copper Canyon 6 is full of thoughtful touches like lots of pockets for organizing, a removable interior divider, and a zippered access port for a power cable. Overall, it’s a great value for car campers.
Although this wasn’t our first use of the tent, it was the first time we had serious rain camping in it. We just spent two weeks camping on the coast of SC where we had showers the first fours days and then toward the end of our trip, a three hour multi-part thunderstorm with wind and hail. We are very pleased with how well the tent did in regards to leaking – there was none. I had sprayed the floor and up the side as far as the bathtub seam twice before we went, so I’m sure that helped. I used two cans of the Kiwi camp dry spray. I had also replaced the included tent stakes with the MSR Groundhog stakes and the tent held fast in the high winds during the storm. MSR Groundhog Stake Kit -Pack of 6
One disappointment is the design of the rain fly and how it is close to the tent and straight across with no projection to get the rain out over the door. This allows the water draining off the roof to run right down into your tent when you open the door while it’s raining or even while there is still water on the rain fly after it’s done raining.
At one point during our trip a campsite nearby set up with the exact same tent but for the design of the rain fly. It DID have the squared off projection that would enable the water from the rain fly to drip outside the tent. We could tell it was an older model, so I can’t for the life of me, figure out why Eureka would have changed to this less efficient design.
Other than that one deficiency, we really like our Copper Canyon tent, especially how much room we have for two people. Besides a queen sized bed, we each had a 5 drawer plastic unit for our clothes and the flat top to use for stuff, a small table in one corner, and a chair in the other corner. There was still space to walk around without tramping on the bed. The E-port is a useful idea and we used ours to run an electric cord into the tent. To add to the comfort, I had bought a 9×9 rust and beige RV mat which gave us a wall to wall rug and added to the looks We had also used a 10×10 heavy duty tarp underneath when setting up.
I’m sure our Eureka tent will give us many years of enjoyment.
