Big Agnes  Wyoming Trail 4 Tent

I received this tent in exchange for an honest review, and am happily pleased with this product! The Wyoming Trail 4 would be a killer tent for a family of four, two couples, or yourself, a buddy, and a couple of ridiculously cute dogs! We are not professionals at tent set-up, and decided to see how quickly we could get this thing rocking with referencing the instructions as minimally as possible! On a windy day with two people, we have been able to set up and secure within 15 minutes! Once we got the hang of it, this was much quicker. The tent is equipped with areas to hang and secure gear such as lanterns and phone pouches—simple but thoughtful touches that keep essentials off the ground! We liked the many roll up areas on the fly and tent itself which made customizing the breeze access a breeze itself. The carrying bag made it effortless to organize the poles, stakes, and separate the tent from the cover. Lightweight considering the size! I think this tent is wonderful and has a very fun design—it was comfortable, secure, and the center vestibule is an excellent spot for a couple of chairs and a table for some games! It’s excellent to have some space under cover for room to change or remove mud and not dirty your sleeping space. I unfortunately did not receive the footprint, but know this would absolutely elevate our experience with the Wyoming Trail 4 and would be a worthwhile addition to this purchase. I do find that this tent is expensive, but high quality. It would be unlikely to fit a queen air mattress in either sleeping side as it is true to the 2P space, but sleeping bags or a twin mattress do the trick. This is one thing I would tweak since this is a front-country or car camping tent and, especially as adults, a little extra room is always appreciated. We did take a timelapse of our setup but unfortunately cant figure out how to share the video here!

Our kids are getting older--10 and 8. We used to all sleep in a 4 person tent no problem but we needed to grow. This tent is perfect because the middle console becomes a changing and dressing area and then we have bedrooms at night. It's not for backpacking--unless it's your only thing since it actually comes in a backpack. But car camping, bikepacking, or, in our case, horse packing, it's no problem and buttons down nice and compact for travel. Setting up is easy. We've been through some pretty great wind and rain storms (Pacific Northwest style) and were still just comfy and cozy as can be.

Wyoming Trail 4, is it really built for Wyoming? When I heard about the Big Agnes Wyoming Trail 4, I wondered if it really would be survive Wyoming. I spend a lot of my times in the high plains (7500’/2300m) where the winds never seem to end and can reach speeds of a category one hurricane. So, I hauled it up to my property in western Wyoming, set it up, tried it out, left it up for a week, through several wind events with several thunderstorms. I was impressed. First, just moving the shipping box from the porch, I had the thought because of its weight, it’s a solid tent. Opening the box, I was impressed with the quality of material the “pack” was made of. There are shoulder straps and a grab strap to move it around, but it is heavy at over 20lbs/9kg. When I opened the pack, I liked that it unzipped so I could lay it open flat. So much nicer than stuff bags. I admit, there was plenty of extra space inside for other gear, I was provided the footprint with the tent, I fit the footprint and had room for much more. I also liked the separate pouches for the tents and rainfly, and a zipper pouch for the stakes. The tent and rainfly material felt thicker than all my less-expensive tents, the aluminum poles with shock cords were higher quality than any, even the one more expensive, tent I’ve owned. And the stakes? I love those t-shapes miniatures with the attached pull cords! They went in easy and the pull cord made them easy to extract. Putting the tent up by myself was doable but took me almost an hour the first time because I read every instruction and tried to follow it. I don’t need them anymore, and I think with two people with at least one with experience, the tent could go up in about 10-15 minutes. I made one mistake of interlacing the medium poles on the wrong side of the long poles, but it was quickly correctable. I did have difficulty getting one of the short poles through the fabric sleeves on the rainfly and getting the ends into the small, webbed pockets. I’d suggest not attaching the all the Velcro to the main tent body before trying to insert the short poles. It made it easier. However, it was also difficult to get out and it took me a few minutes to push it out. The other short pole slid in and out much easier. Once the tent was up and all the pull tabs were tightened, the tent was secure. Over the week, I had up to 40mph/65kph winds hitting the tent broadside with very heavy rain, and the tent was moving, but never laid down or seemed to be strained. The rainfly did not leak, nor did the tents get water inside. I was again impressed, because I expected there to be some leakage into the tent with the fierceness of the storm. Now, for the actual sleeping conditions. The two 2 person tents are typical 2 person tents, well, a little longer than most. They will fit 2 persons, but I’m a large person, about 21”/53cm wide at the shoulder and it would be tight breadthwise for two of me, depending on the thickness of the sleeping pad raising you up and losing width. For just me, it was great, and I had room for gear. There were a couple of design items, that I was concerned with. The first was that the top portion of the tents is nylon mesh. Since the rainfly covers both tents and the large vestibule in-between, cold nights are cold nights in the tent. You won’t trap much body heat with that design. I think it would be wonderful in the hot summer, but I was at elevation in September and glad I had a cold-weather bag. The second concern I had was the gap between the rainfly and the ground. It’s 3-4 inches in the middle, at the vestibule, and with winds and rain coming broadside to the tent, the rain got on top of the footprint and under the tents. The good thing was it didn’t seep through the floor of the tent. Five days after the storms, when I took the tent down, there was still water pooled between the bottom of the tent and the footprint. Impressive! Overall, a good tent. The materials were top notch, it held up to significantly strong winds and storms and only had a few things I’ll work out before the next time I go out in stormy weather. I’ve never had a tent not succumb in some way to the winds of Wyoming, or Death Valley, or some of the other windy places I find myself. This one held up, no stake pulled, up, no poles collapsed, it just stayed put. I’d say it really was built for Wyoming.

The bottom line for me was that it in spite of being large, heavy, expensive, and requiring a long flat site compared with a normal 4-person tent, it provides a only a narrow sleeping space for two people wanting to share. And not enough space if one of those people wanted to use a cot. Four people would be similarly cramped using both sub-tents (“tentlets”?). My wife and I ended up each taking one of the individual sub-tent spaces….which was comfortable but lonely. On the plus side, the full coverage rain fly and integral center vestibule would make this an excellent shelter in rainy conditions. (Conjecture: one of the places we used this was in the Smokies, but for the first time there in memory we did not get rained on!) Robust construction and workmanship, and very user friendly doors on both the inside and outside of the tentlets. Setup is straightforward but there’s a learning curve; there are 7 different kinds of connections involved. We think if Big Agnes took out some of the center vestibule space and added 6-8” to the width of each tentlet, they’d have a more useful product.

We just got back from ten days in Yellowstone, and this tent made the trip fantastic! We usually bring a six-person tent for our family, but this fit the four of us perfectly. We are four adults. Each tent is big enough for two regular sleeping pads. We fit an Exped MegaMat with a Big Agnes Boundary in one tent, with only minor overlap. The space was amazing. We were able to hang a small clothesline across one door for towels. The tent made it through a couple big rainstorms with no issues. The temps outside got into the 30s, and the tent remained fine. This is definitely a car camping tent, but it packed in much nicer than our old tent. We bought the optional footprint, which I think should just be included. It makes setup and teardown a dream. It kept everything very clean. We got a lot of compliments in the campground!

This tent is amazing and very sturdy. Used it this past weekend at Palo Duro Canyon with my dad. Very spacious. Easy to setup. Took us about 15 minutes both times. I did a practice run at my house. It is color coded so makes it easy to set up. It held up pretty well with the high winds. We had a red flag warning. I will be using it in the future. It was a great purchase.

As my son gets older he wanted his own tent so decided to give the Wyoming 4 a try. Also figured I could use it for motorcycle camping with a friend. Anyway, like all BA products this one is well thought out and excellent quality. It took about 15 minutes to set up for the first time but I was amazing with the design and the space. I was able to fit my beloved BA Captain comfort deluxe double sleeping pad on my side and a single wide mattress on the other side. Plus, my 90x90 BA floor protector fits perfectly in the middle to protect the ground sheet and add more warmth. The rainfly opens on both sides for warmer temps and takes the guess work out of setup. The inner tents also zip open on both sides. I truly have nothing negative to say except the support poles on top or a little tricky to install, and it is a bulky and heavy tent. Clearly nothing you would take on the trail. It's currently on sale and I hope that Big Agnes is not going to discontinue this amazing tent.

The tent has been perfect for car camping for our family of 4. The middle section has been our sanctuary for playing, changing, and hanging out - especially during rain storms. We absolutely recommend this tent for anyone looking for lots of functionality for all your car camping adventures.

Camping with a family of 4 on a rainy weekend put this to the test. We loved having our own tents, within the tent. Camping with just two adults had plenty of shelter under the vestibule. Even used this as a lunch shelter at a Girl Scouts field day, using just the fly. Worth the price tag. My only "negative" feedback is that I think this should be sold with the foot print and the 2 extra poles to make an awning.

I couldn't love this more. When.Im camping with a partner, having a "stuff" tent vs a sleeping tent is awesome. Makes the nights cozy and fun and keeps the area small enough to stay the right temperature but keeps our stuff nearby. When camping with a friend, we each get our own space and have chairs set up in the middle for morning coffee. The set up is a bit comicates, as opposed to normal tents, but that's to be expected. It's not hard, just requires a bit of thought as it's different. This would be a great tent for small families enabling a kid tent and a parents tent, just know the two sides aren't huge so wouldn't be great for people who bring a lot of stuff they want to keep with them in the tent. My only complaint is that I wish it came with a couple color options. I like reds, yellows and oranges for the color of the morning light when I wake up, but brown is better than green so it's ok :)