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Discontinued The Eureka Copper Canyon LX 6 has been discontinued and is no longer sold. I’m keeping this review up as a record of my testing — every measurement below is still exactly what I found. If you’re shopping now, start with Best 6-Person Tents — my top pick there is The North Face Wawona 6.

See the 8 tests

1. In the Box
2. Set Up & Take Down
3. Spaciousness
4. Comfort & Features
5. Ventilation
6. Rain & Wind Protection
7. Quality
8. Portability
9. Pros, Cons, Recommendation
10. Bonus – MUST read!

In the Box

Out of the box: a blue carry bag holding the tent body and rainfly, the poles and stakes in their own bags, and two mesh gear lofts.

• Poles 74 steel wall poles, 2 fiberglass roof poles, 1 rainfly pole
• Stakes 8
• Guylines 4 pre-attachedplus 4 spare guy-out loops, guylines not included
• Extras 2 gear lofts

Set Up & Take Down

It’s a standard cabin-tent set-up: the two fiberglass roof poles slide through their sleeves and clip into four elbow joints, then the four steel wall poles drop into those joints at one end and into a pin at the base at the other.

• Set-up time (1 person) 14 minafter breaking the tent in and pitching it half a dozen times
• Take-down + pack-up (1 person) 12 min

Two details make packing away easier than on most of my tents. The guylines stuff straight into small triangular pockets on the tent, so they never tangle.

And the carry bag is genuinely well designed — one side has a Velcro strip you secure first, and then it zips shut so easily I can do it one-handed.

Spaciousness

• Peak height 84ina full 7 feet
• Lowest height 66inat the corners — still over my head
• Side walls Near vertical

That combination is the whole point of this tent: I can stand up everywhere inside it and walk around almost the entire floor.

• Base area 93.4 sq ft
• Floor dimensions 9ft 8in x 9ft 8inabout 7% under the marketed 10 x 10ft / 100 sq ft
• Single sleeping pads 6shoulder to shoulder; not enough room for 6 people’s gear
• Queen-sized mattresses 2mine are 80 x 56in and 80 x 59in, both under a true queen

I’d fit a maximum of four people in here. Two mattresses is comfier and far less claustrophobic, with room for gear at the foot of each bed — but the 9ft 8in length is a few inches shy of two actual queens, so check your mattress dimensions first.

Comfort & Features

• Windows 43 regular, plus the front window that forms part of the door
• Door window 42 x 30in
• Other 3 windows 51 x 29in each
• Vents 0

Only the front window has zippers (SBS). The other three use six toggles each instead, which lets me open them in a lot of different ways. Two of the six are adjustable: slackened off they give a little airflow while the curtain still covers the window for privacy, and pulled tight against the mesh they kept the rain out through my whole hour-long hose test.

• Zip a window ~2 sec
• Toggle a window ~10 sec
• Curtain tie-backs Noneso the curtains can unravel once opened
• Drain holes 2 per windowbig insects can get through them

• Doors 1
• Door size 58 x 50in63in from the ground to the top, so I barely duck
• Door zippers 2 separate trackshandy in rain: leave the bottom one closed and the door can’t droop inward

Straight out of the bag the door was very, very tight, especially at the top. Don’t force it one-handed — pull the two sides of the zipper track together with your other hand so you’re not straining the zippers. It eased off after a few days of breaking in.

• Pockets 42 per width, 23 x 8in a pair, set high under the rainfly
• Gear lofts 2, detachabletriangular, 25 x 25in together
• Lantern loops 51 center, 4 at the top corners
• Liner loops 4one at each bottom corner
• Power port Yes, 1

The pockets sit too high to reach lying down, but I think that’s deliberate: they’re directly under the rainfly. Pockets sewn onto a lower seam with no fly over them can leak straight through the pocket seam — I’ve had that happen on other cabin tents of mine.

Ventilation

Hot days are the good half. Take the rainfly off and you get four big windows plus a lot of ceiling mesh, which is also great for stargazing.

• Rainfly pole overhang ~2 ftshields the door, so I can crack the front window
• Windows usable in heavy rain 1the front one, under the rainfly pole
• Vents 0

Rainy days are the bad half. The other three windows were completely drenched in heavy rain — the rainfly is simply too small — and there are no vents at all, so there’s nothing else to fall back on.

Rain & Wind Protection

Light rain first: completely dry after a couple of hours. Then I put a hose on it for one full hour.

• Light rain Dry after a couple of hours
• Heavy rain 1 hrone leak only, at the corners
• Flooring No leaks
• Seam taping Everything but the vertical corner seams

The floor, the tent fabric, the window fabric and the rainfly were all dry. The only leak came in at the corners, where the vertical seams running from the roof to the floor are inverted but not taped. With a rainfly this small they need to be taped — if you’re expecting heavy rain, seal them yourself.

There’s also a gap between the rainfly and the ceiling mesh under the rainfly pole. Nothing came through it in my yard, but in horizontal rain with real wind behind it, that gap is an open door. I’d expect it to make the tent cold in shoulder season too.

And then the wind. I removed the guylines and the two front stakes to take the tent down, and it blew straight over in a breeze of no more than 5–10 mph. I wasn’t even filming a wind test — it just went. That has never happened with any of my other tents.

Worse, all 8 guy-out points are on the rainfly. Take the fly off for a sunny day or to stargaze and there is nothing left to guy the tent out with at all. My REI Skyward 4 gets this right: all 6 of its guylines attach to the tent body.

Quality

• Floor 75D polyesterI’d want thicker here — use a groundsheet
• Bathtub floor ~10in
• Body & rainfly 75D polyestera step up on the 68D most budget tents use
• Zippers SBS
• Mesh Micro-meshnot specified as no-see-um

• Wall poles Steelabout three-quarters of an inch thick
• Roof and rainfly poles Fiberglass
• Seams Double-stitchedonly a couple of loose threads

The steel is the one thing to watch: mine started showing a little rust after a while in use.

Portability

• Packed size 29 x 13 x 9in
• Weight 22.4 lbson the heavy side, but I can still carry it easily
• Carry Slingmuch longer than most, one of the easiest to carry

Pros, Cons, Recommendation

So what are the pros and cons, and would I recommend the Eureka Copper Canyon LX 6?

Easy set up

Not difficult at all, especially next to my other cabin tents — 14 minutes, entirely on my own.

Easy pack away

Easy to push the air out, and the carry bag is amazing. The fact that I can zip it up one-handed says enough.

High peak height

A full 7 feet. Even stretching upward on tiptoes I still couldn’t reach the top of the tent.

Very spacious

I could stand up everywhere, corners included, thanks to the near-vertical side walls, and walk around the whole tent. It’s crazy spacious, especially for me.

Decent hot day ventilation

Big windows on every wall plus a good amount of ceiling mesh.

Good value for money

A decent amount of storage and features all around, good quality, and it wasn’t expensive for what it is.

Not for strong winds

The biggest one by far, even staked down and guyed out — and with every guy-out point on the rainfly, taking the fly off makes it worse.

The door can be improved

Very tight out of the bag, a rain flap that catches the zipper, and two separate zipper tracks to work through every time.

Not for crazy rains

Perfectly functional in light rain, and with a little seam sealing on the vertical corner seams it stays dry in heavy rain for hours. But the rainfly is small, so this isn’t a tent for torrential weather — and rainy-day ventilation is minimal with no vents and almost no windows you can open.

Bonus – MUST read!

Every figure above is from my own testing — measured by hand, bought with my own money.