Have you been looking at roof-top tents and ground tents trying to determine which tent might benefit you most? Both roof-top tents and ground tents have advantages and disadvantages. Your style of camping and location often dictate which tent is best.

When leveling your roof-top tent, it’s best to start by parking on the flattest surface you can find. From this starting point, use a combination of a leveling tool to measure your pitch and roll and leveling blocks, recovery boards, air suspension, scrap lumber, rock, log, or firewood to level your vehicle.

Over 13,500 members of a roof-top tent group were asked why they switched from a soft shell to hard shell roof-top tent. Sixty answers were provided by members who had made the switch or who were ready to make the switch to a hard shell tent.

How to choose a roof-top tent is based on the number of campers you need to accommodate, softshell or hardshell version, the weight of the tent, the weight limit of your vehicle’s roof and rack, your vehicle’s storage capacity, cost, expandability of the tent, camping environment, durability, and safety.