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| A typical family camping/cabin tent. Large, roomy and relatively easy to setup. |
If you plan on staying in a campground for any length of time that can be "driven to" (instead of packed to), then a family camping tent - also known as a cabin tent - is the tent for you. Unlike your typical backpacking tent, family camping tents are big, roomy and spacious. Some even have multiple rooms, allowing for some privacy.
Your typical cabin tent has come a very long ways from the way they were years ago. Todays family camping tents are generally very easy to setup, and surprisingly, rather light and packable. While far too heavy for backpacking, cabin tents today no longer require two strong men and a small boy to move and setup.
If you plan on going the cabin tent route for your camping needs, I highly suggest getting a tent that is both tall enough to stand in and big enough to allow for a cot. The reason for this is both for general comfort as well as to allow for "some room" during times of rain or foul weather. When you are confined in a tent due to nasty weather, the ability to stand up inside the tent is a very, very big plus.
As a side note, many large dome tents also work very well for general family camping. While not quite as roomy (and lack seperate "rooms"), many large dome tents have enough height to stand fully up in and are wide enough to allow for cots or other large sleeping pads.
Shown below are some tents that work well for longer term camping. All the tents are quite large and very roomy - yet relatively quick and easy to setup. All these tents are available through Cabela's.
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