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Discontinued The Ozark Trail Cabin 10 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 the 6 Best 10-Person Tents — my top pick there is the Coleman WeatherMaster 10.

See the 8 tests

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

In the Box

I paid just over $100 for my Ozark Trail Cabin 10. Inside the box: the tent body, the rainfly with 8 pre-attached guylines, fiberglass and steel poles in a carry bag, a gear loft, a room divider, 14 steel stakes, a floor repair kit, and the warranty paperwork.

Set Up & Take Down

• Set-up time (2 people) 10 min
• Set-up time (1 person) 20 minI got stuck on the rainfly — at 5’3″ I couldn’t lift it up alone
• Take-down (2 people) 6.5 min
• Take-down (1 person) 12 min
• Poles 3 fiberglass + 6 steelfiberglass roof, steel walls

• Stakes / guylines 14 / 8guylines come pre-attached

Three fiberglass poles slide through color-coded roof sleeves — two green for the long diagonals, one blue for the short middle pole — then clip into elbow connectors. Six steel wall poles attach top and bottom, the rainfly goes over, and 14 stakes finish it.

With my brother it took 10 minutes. Solo it’s about 20 minutes, but I got stuck: at 5’3″ I couldn’t get the rainfly up on my own. Take-down is quick — 6.5 minutes with two, 12 minutes alone.

Spaciousness

• Capacity 10-person10 sleeping pads or 4 queen mattresses
• Peak height 88in

• Lowest height 65inat the four corners — taller than I am
• Length × width 13ft 9in × 9ft 11injust under the marketed 14 × 10ft
• Base area 136.4 sq ft

• Vestibule None

This is the tent’s best test by a mile. At 88in I can’t reach the ceiling even with my arm stretched out, and the corners are 65in — taller than I am — so I stand upright everywhere, corners included.

The floor came out at 13ft 9in × 9ft 11in, a little under the marketed 14 × 10ft, for 136.4 sq ft. That takes 10 single sleeping pads nearly shoulder to shoulder with a strip down the middle for gear, or 4 near-queen mattresses that fill it. There’s no vestibule, so shoes left out get wet.

Comfort & Features

• Doors 1the whole tent has a single D-door
• Door size 54 × 39in62in from the floor to the top

• Windows 5all identical, 2 per length and 1 per width
• Window size 43 × 25in
• Room divider Yes (1)sheer, with gaps top and bottom, and no zip

• Gear lofts 1
• Pockets 213 × 6in each

• Lantern loops 1

• E-port 1no closure, but it never leaked on me

• Vents None
• Black-out No

Five identical windows at 43 × 25in, each with two slightly noisy but snag-free zippers and a bug net whose holes are too big to be no-see-um. What hurts is the single door: one 54 × 39in D-door for a 10-person tent, with mesh over only half of it.

And that door zipper snags on the green rain cover every single time I open it — at least once, sometimes twice. None of my other tents with this design are anywhere near as bad.

The divider splits the tent in two, each side taking 2 queen mattresses. Only one room gets the door. It’s sheer rather than opaque, leaves gaps top and bottom, and has no zip down the middle — to get between rooms you take the whole thing down and put it back up.

Storage is 2 pockets at 13 × 6in, very small for a tent this size, plus a gear loft. At 5’3″ I need to stand on something to fit the loft or reach the single lantern loop. There’s one e-port with no closure at all, though the outer fabric overlaps enough that it never leaked on me.

Ventilation

• Ceiling mesh Yesrainfly removes from the outside

• Window + door mesh 6 panelsnone of them large

• Vents None
• Open in the rain Nothingeverything has to stay shut

On a dry day it’s fine: plenty of ceiling mesh, and you can pull the rainfly off entirely and stargaze. The 5 windows and the door aren’t big, so they don’t add much on their own.

In rain it’s a different story. There are no vents at all, and the rainfly is small enough that it barely shields the window mesh, so everything has to be zipped shut. Even light rain lands on the mesh. What you’re left with is the gap between the ceiling mesh and the rainfly, which is minimal.

Rain Protection

• Rain hold 15 minbefore the untaped floor seam leaked
• Rain test length 1 hr20 min moderate, 40 min light
• Seam taping None on the floor seamit’s inverted, not taped
• Bathtub floor Yesno water came through it

• Guylines 8

It rained for about an hour while I had this one up — roughly 20 minutes moderate and 40 minutes light. After only 15 minutes of mostly light rain, water was coming through the inverted, untaped seam joining the blue body fabric to the bathtub floor, and puddling inside.

At the same point the blue fabric at the bottom of the tent was already soaked through. With that much water in after 15 minutes of light rain, I wouldn’t call this tent waterproof.

Wind isn’t a strength either. It’s a cabin tent, so the shape isn’t aerodynamic, the pole structure is simple, there are only 8 guylines, and the stakes are basic.

Quality

• Floor Polyethylenebathtub floor, roughly 5in — I never measured it
• Tent body 68D coated polyester

• Rainfly 68D coated polyester
• Poles 3 fiberglass + 6 steelI found rust on one steel pole
• Stakes 14 steelstandard, nothing impressive
• Mesh Regularnot no-see-um, and inconsistent in places

The floor is unlabeled but feels like ordinary polyethylene, and no water came through it during the rain test. The body and rainfly are 68D coated polyester, but running a hand over the fabric leaves it feeling slightly sticky — possibly the coating breaking down. There were black marks on my hands the first time I handled it straight out of the box.

Loose threads turned up all over the tent, and the stitching where the guylines meet the body left fairly big holes. The mesh has visible runs in places. One steel pole had rust on it, so rinse and dry the poles before storing.

Portability

• Packed size 29 × 18 × 13in
• Weight 30 lbseverything, including poles and stakes
• Carry bag Expandableeverything went back in without a fight

Packed it’s 29 × 18 × 13in and 30 lbs all in — here it is beside a Coleman Sundome 2 and a 32-ounce Nalgene for scale. The carry bag expands, so repacking was never a struggle.

Pros, Cons, Recommendation

Now, what are the pros and cons, and would I recommend the Ozark Trail Cabin 10?

VERY inexpensive

By far my least expensive tent for the size — I paid just over $100 — and it still came with a gear loft and a room divider.

Super spacious

An 88in peak with vertical side walls and 65in corners, so I could stand up everywhere inside.

Only 1 door

One door in a 10-person tent, and its zipper snags on the rain cover every time. Use the divider and one room has no door at all.

Minimal ventilation when raining

No vents anywhere, and everything has to be shut, so airflow drops to almost nothing.

Minimal weather protection

It leaked within 15 minutes of mostly light rain, and the body fabric soaked through at the same time.

Quality isn’t the best

Slightly sticky fabric, loose threads throughout, snagging zippers, inconsistent mesh, and rust on a steel pole.

Bonus – MUST Read!

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