Northwest Territory Vacation Home 10-Person Tent

Northwest Territory Vacation Home 10-Person Tent

Northwest Territory Vacation Home 10-Person Tent

The mother of all tents

What a great buy! The other campers where jealous. Good thing I did buy such a large tent. I had to house 3 (2 adults and one child) additional people, including me and my daughter. Plenty of room. It just happened to rain one day; tent stayed fairly dry except around one of the windows. However, I have not sealed my seams yet. Will do by the next time we camp. We loved it.

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it's a nice tent. really nice.

what a cool tent

it's really cool

Northwest Territory Vacation Home - The Tent I Prefer

Have had this tent for 4+ yrs now. Love the versatility of the rooms. Is easy for me to put up by myself.  I have 2 tents and this is the one I take. It is holding up very well. I like the power pocket, I use it for the electrical cord & the propane line from a 5 gal. tank outside. Only downside, so far, was in cold weather. I had to put a tarp over the screen top & between the rain cover to hold the heat in from my Mr.Heater Buddy Heater while camping along the coast. Once I put the tarp over the top it held the heat in very well. I actually had to turn the heater down to low. Have not had rain but it did hold up well during a wind storm.

Northpole LTD mfgr of Northwest Territory is out of business

On Monday 8/6/2012, all 800 numbers for Northpole LTD, in the US and canada quit working, email bounced.  By 8/18/2012, all lines of communication to the company have closed down in the US and Canada.  There is no company to stand behind to handle warranty claims or get parts when things break.  The product is weak in the connectors, which no other company manufactures or uses, so no other means to find them when they break.

The tent is great, easy to setup, or break down, as long as you have all the parts.

Love this tent, but...

The tent is wonderful.  However, the tent pole connectors are plastic and break very easily.  I am in need of replacing 4-5 poles after a strong wind.  Also, if you don't take the tent down properly, the pole connectors can break.  Otherwise, we have had great vacation get aways in the tent, including in the back yard!!

Great For The Family

We love this tent. It was very difficult setting up the first time. The instructions we difficult to read. Once we saw how it was set up we decided to number the poles. We can now set up in under 10 minutes with two of us. The kids really enjoy the tent as well. I have 4 daughters under 10 years old. I put two kids in one room and two kids in the other and my husband and myself sleep in the front part of the tent. It is very spacious. Pleanty of room to stand and move about. I would suggest getting seam sealer and weather proofing spray for the tent. We didn't weather proof before our first trip and the tent leaked from the roof. We weather proofed it  after that and had no problems. It was a pretty strong storm and no leaks. I love this tent and would recommend this to anyone.

Great tent!!

Bought this tent to downsize after reading the reviews and am very happy with it. The steup was easy for the most part. The color coding on the poles helps a great deal when first setting it up. Prior to go on our first camping trip it was seam sealed and the whole tent was actually watersealed as well. We learned the hard way when we first started camping to do this with all tents. We had a huge storm with major winds and had no rain/water except by our own error by not closing the windows all the way and even then it was not much water at all. The only complaints are the upper window on the screen room side was not sewn properly in the seam in an area and it seperated on the first setup but it is under the rain cover so we left it alone and it did not leak, and the some ground stake loops have come off already as well also not sewn on well. Overall we are very happy and love this tent!!! It is definitly worth it for the size and price. Our one dog loves the closet and calls it his room.

Wonderful Tent!!

I bought this tent last summer (2011). I got this tent because it was very roomy. One thing I hate about a tent, is that you cant stand up without bending over b/c its not tall enough. In this tent, it not the case...when you stand up, you cant touch the ceiling, which I loved. This tent has 2 doors and 3 rooms...when you first walk into the tent, I call it the porch. We used it to set up our food tables and a mini kitchen without the cooking stove. The other rooms we made into one big room for our air mattress, clothes, etc... There was room for 3-4 queen size air mattress in the divided rooms(made into 1 big room).

Set up: Poles are color coded and the hooks on the tent are color coded as well. If you know your colors then setting up this tent is simple. The only thing we did wrong was put the fly on backwards but it still worked. You have to make your roof part first then add your side poles. Once the tent is up, your good to go!

I will def. recommend this tent to anyone.

Not too bad as of yet

This tent dosnt seem to be all that bad. Set it up in the back yard to seal the seams and it goes up pretty well. Not sure of the rain fly though, it dosnt extend down the sides at all and actually touches the tent walls in several places. Not sure if it is going to leak though I should find out later this week. Just a few notes, two people makes it a lot easier to go up, and make sure to get two bottles seam sealer as this thing has a lot of seams.

Tent is spacious and rain proof

We've enjoyed the tent A LOT--we had a huge, horrible rainstorm while using it the first time--and though the driving rain wasn't completely kept out, the tent still protected us wonderfully. The poles and lines kept the structure stable and we were thrilled. It's almost too big for the two of us, but its size allows us room to move around without tripping over each other. Great, great tent!

Great tent for a family with small kids

We have spent many long weekends in the mountains in this tent and love it. There is room for a couple of queen sized mattresses in the back room and a dog crate, gear and kids' play area in the front room. It has held up really well for us and has kept us dry in some pretty crazy thunderstorms. One reviewer mentioned leaking seams... be sure to read the directions on any tent and see that you need to SEAL THE SEAMS. It makes a difference, water will find the tiniest gaps and an unsealed tent will have gaps. It makes for good practice setting it up. 

KMT111614 Review

This is our 2nd and newest 10 person tent from Northwest Territory.This tent is easy to setup and transport. 1 person can set it up in about 20 minutes after learning the process. Plenty of room and the wheeled carrying case makes transport easy.Now the bad...The poles are noticably thinner and weaker than our first tent, which was a previous model. I'm very worried about how long they will last.The connectors are also noticably smaller and weaker and this is bad.First time out (Summer of 2010), pretty bad, but brief rainstorm came through. Winds about 50-60MPH, but storm only lasted about 10-15 minutes.The tent (canvas) seems a little thinner also. I'm worried about how it will last over the next few years.One of the corner connector broke during the storm. We were able to make temporary repairs using duct-tape.I very much like the tent, but would recommend it only for nice weather. Not for any high-wind or rainy weather.Finally, replacement parts seem a little too pricy.Northwest Territory would be better off not skimping on the quality as it seemed they did with this model.

One name two different tents! One GREAT, one TRASH!!!

I believe I have stumbled across the disparity in the ratings of this tent. Let me start out by saying that I bought one of these tents last year. If you look at the pics in the Kmart ad, there are two different tents under one advertisement. One has a grey bottom strip, and one doesn't. While the one with the grey bottom strip keeps any ground water out, the overall tent is garbage! It doesn't have the side ridge poles, the fabric is inferior, and the lack of side ridge poles and the poor leg system makes this tent basically unusable. The fabric rips, the loops tear, the legs bend (if they don't come that way already, and due to the lack of side ridge poles, the whole tent sort of slumps and is not taught and beautiful. This tent comes in a red bag. The tent that comes in the black bag, has side fabric that goes all the way down to the ground. Now if you are exposed to a monsoon, you may get ground water inside, but under normal conditions, you should be fine. This tent has side ridge poles that make for a nice taunt set up and a beautiful and very sound structure. Having had the later set up through high winds and rain, I know that it holds up to the element. Wanting a second tent, we ordered one online. When it came, it was in a red bag. I thought that was strange, but who cares about bag color. Setting it up was a nightmare. The fabric tore, the tabs ripped out and the legs bent. I couldn't get it to stand up and look nice. When my son came over and a small wind came up that took it down, he was helping me put it away and he noticed the lack of side ridge poles that I had not noticed. These poles make for all the difference in the world. Calling Northwest Territory she asked which model number we had as there are several manufactures of the family cabin tent. I guess they don't give the manufacturers their specifications, but allow them to build any tent that looks the same. So, if you want a GREAT tent, buy the one in the black bag that has the fabric going all the way to the ground and you will be very happy with your purchase. If you see a red bag, run the other way as quickly as you can!