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How To Store Your Tent For The Winter

October 5, 2015 by Jason Clements

How Do You Store Your Tent For The Winter

How To Store Your Tent For The Winter ( Video Link Below )

The Quick Answer:

  • Make certain that your tent is 100% dry
  • Keep tent, rainfly, poles, stakes, guy-lines, and stuff sack together
  • Hang everything up in your closet
  • Enjoy a fresh tent on your first spring trip

How Do You Currently Store Your Tent?

Do you keep your tent in the stuff sack all winter long?

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Are you sneezy or congested while you sleep in your tent?

That smell could be mold or mildew.  The smallest amount of moisture can cause mold or mildew to grow on your tent.  It can also lead to some degradation of the waterproof properties of your tent.

Follow These Two Simple Rules To Store Your Tent For The Winter

Rule 1.  Your tent must be 100% dry

Rule 2.  Keep all parts of the tent together

Store Your Tent In Any Closet In Your Home Or In A Portable Closet

Ensure That Your Tent Is Dry

After every trip, you must make certain that your tent is dry.  There are three methods for ensuring that your tent is dry:

  • You can hang your tent outside on a clothesline on a dry, windy day.
  • You can hang your tent in your house over a chair.
  • You can throw your tent in a laundry basket.

The Clothesline Method is my preferred method of drying out my tent after every trip.  Obviously, there are times when the weather does not allow it; so I string up a line in my basement and hang my tent to dry there.

If you don’t have a clothesline or a place in the basement to string up a line; use one of the other methods to make sure that your tent is dry before hanging it up for the winter.

Keep Everything Together

Don’t break this rule:  You must store all tent parts including the tent, rainfly, poles, stakes, guy-lines, stuff sacks together.  It would be a disaster to forget some parts of your tent because you stored them some place else, and then forgot to pack them.

If you have a giant tent use two hangers.  Connect the two hangers with a carabiner, like this:How To Store a Big Tent for the WinterWell, Jason, I Hike, Climb, or Camp Out Every Week or Month…

I still recommend hanging your tent to dry out after each and every trip.

It is that simple.

Happy Camping!


What about short term storage, like…in between campsites?

Now you’re talking.  This is the right time to stuff that tent in the stuff sack. 

And do you wonder Should a Beginner Stuff or Fold a Tent?  Click here to find out which method took less than 1 minute and which method took less than 2 minutes !!!


What is your preferred method to store your tent for the winter?

Share in the comments.


Filed Under: Camping, Gear Tagged With: camping, gear maintainance, storage, Tent

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