While there are many different styles of tent available today, each has a better use profile and ideal adventure to use them on. When it comes to camping tents, the most popular shape will be a dome-style tent. This is because of ease of use, as well as the trade-off in canopy headroom to the overall complexity.
Some tents, like the REI Co-op Wonderland X, make use of a tunnel-style structure. These tents often boast more headroom overall, but will suffer some during high winds. For this reason, it’s important to properly guyline out a tunnel-style tent. Other tents still, like the Eureka Copper Canyon 4 Tent or Decathlon Quechua 2 Second Tent, employ a collapsable style of integrated poles that forms a rigid structure once assembled. These tents are often among the easiest to use, but also the weakest overall, as any strong force against their poles could collapse them.