I've spent the last four winters testing portable heaters inside ice-fishing tents, canvas wall tents, and backpacking shelters, and one thing has become painfully clear: not every heater marketed for indoor use belongs inside a tent. When you're searching for the best tent heaters safe for indoor use, you're really asking two questions at once. […]

After three seasons of hauling tents across rocky deserts, hard-packed alpine sites, and soft forest floors, our team has tested enough tent stake hammers to know what separates the real workhorses from the gimmicks. We pulled 12-foot canvas wall tents through caliche soil, set up lightweight shelters on the PCT, and broke down camp after […]