Rooftop tents and high winds.

The question is how rooftop tents perform in high winds. Mainly noise and truck movement.

We’re choosing between a pop top camper, like Project M, or fold out rooftop tents.

I have no experience but I’m assuming a pop top camper would perform better in the noise department.

Out on the road and on the web, I see more rooftop tents than anything else. I’m guessing advantages are cost, weight, and the ability to easily remove and store it for utility.

Since we can sleep in the 6-foot bed, I think an advantage of a lightweight pop top is the ability to collapse the tent and sleep in the bed, even during rain. Camper shell style.

It can get windy out there.

 

We’re planning to build something like this

https://far-outcamping.com/features/


You’re correct in thinking the more structural and solid the material the better in wind and the more space the more options to sleep.

We don’t poo poo others for their choice but I don’t see a ground tent you have to climb up and down to pee and a lot of them you can’t even move your vehicle until you take it down.

A Gazelle will set up faster and have more room.

Just one persons take, a lot of people like them, I just can’t see a single upside personally.

 

Thank you for sharing. That’s a lot of usable space. Fast set up.

Really easy to get in and out of bed in the middle of the night, when nature calls.

And I’m not getting any younger....

 

For this alone you don't want a RTT.

I camped in Oklahoma between 2 storms, on the beach, and on the Blue Ridge Parkway in VA during hurricane Helene. Every gust felt like we were going to fold up and head off to OZ. They will take the wind but it depends on how sound you sleep if you will sleep well.
I have an aluminum shell CVT Mt Theilsen and my buddy with us has a Yakima soft shell.

 

Dang, that’s windy. Thank you for sharing the real-world experience. Glad you didn’t wake up staring at Ruby Slippers.

Interesting. Hardtop wedge can be pointed into the wind. And I like how this system can be mounted on a camper shell or vehicles other than pickup trucks.

Not that I would run out and buy a Jeep.

 

A wedge style is best in the wind since you can park it into it. How good it does still depends on the overall build quality though. My Naturnest was decent but the tent fabric still made a ton of noise. My Alu-Cab 3R on the other hand, is outstanding. First night I slept in it we had 25-30 mph gusts and honestly I wouldn’t have known if it weren’t for the zippers making noise. That is solved now with nylon zipper pulls.

 

Thanks for sharing your experience and nylon zipper pull info.

Looks like Alu-Cab makes a lot of cool stuff.