This is the Kodiak Canvas Truck Tent. As the name suggests, it is a tent for your truck that turns the bed of your truck into a real truck bed, keeping you off the ground and protecting you from critters and creepy crawlies.
In some ways, this tent is a modern version of the classic covered wagons, also called whitetops or prairie schooners, that pioneers used in the old American West. They serve the same purpose: providing shelter from rain and sun and a warm place to sleep at night.
The Kodiak Canvas Truck Tent offers a ceiling height of 5 feet, which is far better than most tents in this class, and it is much more spacious than a rooftop tent.
Kodiak Canvas was founded in 2006, initially with just a single design: a cotton canvas tent with heavy-duty steel poles. This tent was developed because the founders were dissatisfied with the modern range of cheap polyester tents with poles that were prone to breaking and felt that there must be other people like them out there.
As it turns out, they were right, because in the years since their founding, they have grown to the point where their tents are now the best-selling canvas tents in America.
The company now sells dozens of different styles of canvas tents, as well as cotton/canvas sleeping bags, sleeping bags, cabin tents, traditional wood-burning tent stoves, camping furniture, and of course the patented Kodiak Canvas Truck Tent.
The Kodiak Canvas Truck Tent
The Kodiak Canvas Truck Tent has an outer shell made of Hydra-Shield™ 100% cotton canvas, chosen for its durability, water resistance and breathability. The sides of the tent feature a unique clamp rail with integrated 3/4″ steel tube frame, making it both sturdy and easy to set up.
The tent has a total of five windows, each with a no-see-um net to keep the bugs out on the other side. There is a window at the back for access to the driver’s cab. Importantly, this allows you to run power cables from the truck’s cab back into the tent to keep your devices charged.
High quality YKK zippers are used throughout and the tent has a large D-shaped door for easy access and to ensure plenty of natural light and ventilation comes in. The tent has two gear pockets, a covered entrance and a ceiling height of 1.52 m.
The tent features a unique clamp rail with integrated 3/4-inch steel tube frame, making it both sturdy and quick to set up.
Kodiak Canvas offers a lifetime limited warranty on all tents. The Truck Tent is available in two sizes – one for truck bed lengths of 5′ to 6′ and another for truck bed lengths of 8′. The tent retails for $499.99, significantly less than a comparable rooftop tent. A carrying bag is included.
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