Coleman WeatherMaster 10 Tent Review (Bought & Tested!)

I bought this tent with my own money and put it through 12 hands-on tests.

Setup 19 min
Peak 80.5in
Base area 143.6 sq ft
Weight 30.6 lbs

The author testing the Coleman WeatherMaster 10 Tent. — *Standing inside my Coleman WeatherMaster 10.*

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Test scorecard

7.7out of 10

Quality9.2

Spaciousness9

Comfort & Features8

Ventilation7.5

Ease of Use7

Rain Protection7

Portability5

I’ve had my Coleman WeatherMaster 10 for about 3 years now and it’s still in great condition: tons of great features, like a hinged D-door and 2 angled windows, and really quite inexpensive. I do wish the windows were bigger for more ventilation, and that Coleman had taped the seams instead of inverting them.

What won me over

Good quality
Durable
Hinged D-door
2 angled windows
Inexpensive

What let me down

Windows could be bigger
Needs seam sealing
Carry bag a bit tight

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See the 12 tests

In the Box
Set Up & Take Down
Peak Height
Base Area
Doors
Windows
Room Divider
Storage
Ventilation
Rain Protection
Quality
Portability
Pros, Cons, Recommendation
Bonus: Must Read!

In the Box

I bought my Coleman WeatherMaster 10 from Amazon. Inside: the tent body, the rainfly with guylines already attached, steel poles for the main body, fiberglass poles for the D-door and angled windows, a room divider, and 16 stakes.

In this picture, you'll see the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent's carry bag, tent body (left), rainfly with pre-attached guylines (middle), and steel poles in a pole bag (right). — *Everything that came in the box: carry bag, tent body, rainfly, poles.*

Set Up & Take Down

Set-up time (1 person) 19 min
Set-up time (2 people) 10 min
Take-down (1 person) 16 min
Take-down (2 people) 8.5 min
Poles Steel + fiberglasssteel for the roof and walls, fiberglass for the D-door and angled windows

After assembly, here's what all of the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent's steel poles look like. I put a red box around the 3 curved steel poles, because you need to set those up first. — *The steel poles assembled. The 3 in the red box go up first.*

This is what your Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent will look like after you're done installing all the steel poles. — *What it looks like once all the steel poles are in.*

Stakes / guylines 16 / 610 metal stakes, 6 plastic

Three curved steel poles slide into the sleeves across the width, then six straight poles clip on and drop into the Coleman pins at the base. The fiberglass poles go in last, for the D-door and the two angled windows. Then the rainfly, then the stakes.

Solo it took me 19 minutes, and I’m only 5’3″. Rainfly and hinged door included, no issues. With two of us it was 10 minutes. Take-down is the reverse: 16 minutes alone, 8.5 minutes with help. Getting everything back into the carry bag is a tight fit, so I’d grab a second pair of hands for that bit.

This is a picture of me trying to stuff everything back into the carry bag of the Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent. — *Stuffing it all back in. The bag is a tight fit.*

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Want the full step-by-step? Watch my WeatherMaster 10 set-up video on YouTube.

Peak Height

Capacity 10-person10 sleeping pads or 3 queen mattresses
Peak height 80.5in

This is a picture of me reaching the top of the Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent. — *Reaching the 80.5in peak on tiptoes.*

At 80.5in I can just touch the ceiling on tiptoes with my arm out. The corners drop to 58in, so at 5’3″ I couldn’t stand upright there, but everywhere else was fine.

Base Area

Lowest height 58inat the corners
Longest length 16ft 8in
Longest width 9ft 1innarrowing to 7ft 1in at the edge
Base area 143.6 sq ftthe floor isn’t a clean rectangle

This is a picture of my Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent with 10 sleeping pads (a mix of 2 single, 3 double sleeping pads, and 1 full mattress) inside the tent. — *10 sleeping pads, nearly shoulder to shoulder.*

Vestibule None

The floor runs 16ft 8in long by 9ft 1in at its widest, but it narrows to 7ft 1in at the edge, so it isn’t a clean rectangle. I worked the real base area out at 143.6 sq ft.

That’s why I could only fit 3 queen-sized mattresses inside, with room left over for gear. Swap them for 10 single sleeping pads and it’s near shoulder-to-shoulder. There’s no vestibule, so shoes left outside will get wet in rain. Still, it’s the biggest floor of the 10-person tents I’ve tested.

This is a picture of what 3 queen-sized camping mattresses would look like inside a Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent. — *3 near-queen mattresses inside, with space for gear.*

Doors

Doors 2one hinged D-door, one zippered
D-door size 47 × 30in59in from the ground to the top
Back door size 57 × 34in65in at its highest, sloping down

The hinged D-door is the headline feature and it makes getting in and out effortless. It has a handle inside and out, and Velcro that holds it shut if you can’t be bothered zipping (I never do). At 59in to the top of the door frame I still have to duck slightly. The back door zips instead, and can be rolled up and clipped open.

This is a picture of me reaching for the handle of the hinged D-door of the Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent. — *Reaching for the D-door handle.*

Windows

Windows 46 counting the mesh panels in both doors

Window sizes 30 × 28.5in / 60 × 17.5inthe two angled windows are the big ones

There are 4 windows plus mesh in both doors, each with two near snag-free zippers and a bug net, though the holes are too big to be no-see-um mesh. The two angled windows on the tent’s widths are much larger at 60 × 17.5in.

Room Divider

Room divider Yes (1)

The removable divider splits the tent into two rooms, each holding 5 pads or a queen bed plus a pad. It zips down the middle and clips back for access. My one complaint: the gaps at the sides, top and bottom are big. I’d rather it were full length.

This is a picture of my brother sticking his head out the sides of the divider of the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent, which has pretty big gaps. — *My brother through the divider’s side gap.*

Storage

Pockets 4~20 × 10in each

This is a picture of me sticking my hand into one of the pockets of the Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent. — *One of the four 20 by 10in pockets.*

Lantern loops 1

This is a picture of my Black Diamond Apollo hanging on the lantern loop of the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent. — *My lantern hanging from the center loop.*

E-port 1
Gear lofts None
Black-out No

Storage is 4 pockets, all the same triangular shape at about 20 × 10in. There’s one lantern loop dead center and one zippered e-port at floor level.

This is a picture of the e-port that comes with the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent. — *The single zippered e-port.*

Ventilation

Ceiling mesh Yesremovable rainfly over it

This is a picture of the ceiling or roof mesh of the Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent, with the rainfly removed. — *The ceiling mesh with the rainfly off.*

Window + door mesh 6 panels

This is a picture of the rain avoiding the angled windows of the Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent. — *Rain missing the angled window entirely.*

This is a picture of the rainfly of the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent in the rain. Notice that it's quite small, and hardly protects the doors and windows at all, so you'd probably need to close them especially in heavy rain. — *The rainfly is small. It hardly shields the windows.*

Vents None
Open in the rain 2 angled windowsthey stayed open through moderate to heavy rain

There’s a lot of mesh on the roof, and the rainfly comes off from the outside. I take it off on hot days, and it doubles as stargazing at night. The doors and the two regular windows aren’t big though, so removing the rainfly is how I actually get airflow.

There are no vents anywhere. What saves it in bad weather is the pair of angled windows: I left both open through moderate to heavy rain and nothing came in. Everything else has to be shut, because the rainfly is small and barely covers the doors and windows.

Rain Protection

Rain hold 15 minbefore the untaped bathtub seam leaked
Rain test length 1 hrmoderate to heavy, hose on the front length

This is a picture of me conducting a rain test on the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent by using a stopwatch and a water hose. — *Running my rain test with a hose and a stopwatch.*

Seam taping Noneevery seam is inverted, not taped

The inverted seam connecting the dark brown fabric of the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent to the bathtub flooring was not seam taped by Coleman, so water started leaking in after about 15 minutes of heavy rain. — *The untaped inverted seam that let water in.*

Bathtub floor 7.5instayed completely dry
Guylines 6

It didn’t rain while I was filming, so I ran an hour of hose on the front length of the tent: moderate, arguably heavy rainfall.

After about 15 minutes, water started coming in through the seam joining the dark brown fabric to the bathtub floor. Every seam in this tent is inverted and none are taped, but that was the only one that leaked. It took the most water.

After the full hour most of the tent was still dry, though the darker brown fabric was slightly damp. In an hour of light rain it stayed dry, but that same seam still seeped a little. So if you’re expecting any rain at all, seal it first.

I found that the dark brown fabric of the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent was damp after an hour of heavy rain. — *The dark brown fabric, damp after an hour.*

On wind: the shape is more aerodynamic than a cabin tent, but the 80.5in peak and near-vertical front and back walls catch a lot, and there are only 6 guylines on a tent this size. It handled light wind fine; I wouldn’t want to test it in much more.

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See the damage for yourself: watch my WeatherMaster 10 rain test on YouTube.

Quality

Floor Polyethylene7.5in bathtub

This is a picture of me using a tape measure to measure the height of the bathtub feature of the Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent (7.5 inches). — *Measuring the 7.5in bathtub floor.*

Tent body 68D polyester
Rainfly 75D polyester taffeta450mm water resistance
Poles Steel + fiberglass
Seams Invertedconsistent stitching, no taping
Mesh Regularnot no-see-um

This is the best-scoring part of the tent, and it’s why I’ve kept it 3 years. The polyethylene floor has a 7.5in bathtub and no water seeped through it in an hour of heavy rain. The body is 68D polyester and the rainfly 75D polyester taffeta rated to 450mm of water resistance. Stitching is consistent everywhere, including the doors and windows, with none of the gaping holes I’ve found on other tents. Zippers are good, and only the back door snags occasionally from the outside because of the rain cover.

Three years in, some steel poles have got stiff to put together, but they feel solid once assembled. The fiberglass pole for the curved part of the D-door is the weak point, because it has to bend a long way, and mine cracked. Duct tape fixed it and it’s worked fine ever since.

This is a picture of a small crack on my fiberglass pole for the hinged D-door of the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent. — *The crack in my D-door fiberglass pole.*

Portability

Packed size 31 × 18 × 12in
Weight 30.6 lbseverything, including poles and stakes
Carry bag Shoulder strapbarely long enough for me

Packed it’s 31 × 18 × 12in and 30.6 lbs all in. Here it is next to a Coleman Sundome 2 and a 32-ounce Nalgene for scale. The shoulder strap is only just long enough for me.

This is the Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent (left) beside a Coleman 2-Person Sundome Tent (middle) and a 32-ounce Nalgene bottle for a size comparison. — *Packed size next to a Sundome 2 and a Nalgene.*

This is a picture of me carrying the WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent using the strap of its carry case. — *Carrying it on the strap, which is only just long enough.*

Pros, Cons, Recommendation

Now, what are the pros and cons, and would I recommend the Coleman WeatherMaster 10?

Good quality and durable

Every seam is inverted with consistent stitching, the zippers run smoothly, and I’ve used it for 3 years with hardly an issue. I did break a fiberglass pole, but duct tape sorted it.

Super user-friendly hinged D-door

It opens like a real door, with handles on both sides. Going in and out is a breeze compared to unzipping.

2 huge angled windows

They stay open in moderate to heavy rain, so there’s still ventilation when it’s wet. That’s rare.

This is the Coleman WeatherMaster 10-Person Tent fully set up in my yard. Notice that the angled windows are open. — *Fully pitched with both angled windows open.*

I could set it up on my own

At 5’3″ I put the whole tent up solo in 19 minutes, hinged door and rainfly included. The pole sleeves really are snag-free.

Inexpensive

For a feature-packed tent of this quality, I found the price genuinely low.

Windows could be bigger

The two non-angled windows aren’t tiny, but they’re far from big, and on hot days I wanted more.

Needs seam sealing

The bathtub seam is inverted rather than taped, and it leaked at 15 minutes. Seal it before any rainy trip.

Carry bag is a tight fit

Getting everything back in is a struggle on your own. The room divider also has big gaps at the sides.

Overall recommendation

Overall the pros greatly outweigh the cons. Seal that one seam yourself and there are hardly any left. Three years on, my Coleman WeatherMaster 10 has given me incredible value for money, and I highly recommend it.

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