Harley Davidson Bed Tent

When you travel with a truck bed tent, you can literally set up camp anywhere that you can drive your truck. The truck bed tent slides directly into the bed of your pickup truck. There are no stakes to drill into the ground. The tent just straps to the sides of your truck bed and you are set with a stable camping shelter.

While truck bed camping is a relatively new type of camping, it is quickly growing in popularity. Truck bed tents can be seen in campgrounds everywhere, and the people who use them really enjoy them. Many people find truck bed camping to be preferable to traditional tenting for a number of reasons.

Benefits of Truck Bed Tent Camping

Convenience

Many people see truck bed tent camping as a convenient alternative to both traditional tents and camping in a recreational vehicle.

Setting up a traditional tent isn’t the most enjoyable of tasks. With a standard tent, you have to find level ground, put down a groundsheet to protect your tent from water, drive stakes into the ground, and more. With a truck tent, the bed of your truck is your level ground, and the truck itself keeps water away from the tent and serves as the base.

Camping in a recreational vehicle, whether you have a motor home or a travel trailer, can be great fun. However, hooking up a travel trailer to a tow vehicle can be very challenging for many people, as can driving with a trailer in tow. Additionally with a motor home, once you get to your campsite unless you have towed another vehicle with you, getting around from place to place can be challenging.

With a truck tent, setting up and taking down the tent is easy and convenient. Truck bed tents can easily be set up in 20 minutes or less, and taking them down is even faster. There is nothing to tow, and no worries about being able to get around easily once you arrive at your destination. When you’re ready to go into town or to your next location, just fold up your truck bed tent and store it behind your seat.

Affordable

If you own a pickup truck, the only item that you need to enjoy truck bed tent camping is an inexpensive bed tent and any additional camping supplies that you want to bring. There are truck bed tents available to include most makes and models of pickups.

Whether you desire a Ford Harley Davidson bed tent or one that will work with your Nissan truck, or any other type of truck, you will be able to purchase what you need for between $100 and $300.

Additionally, traveling in your truck is much more economical in terms of fuel costs than traveling in a motor home or with a recreational vehicle in tow. When you have a truck bed tent, you can enjoy camping excursions without having to think about the extra fuel expense associated with driving or towing a large camper.

Protection from Mother Nature

While campers tend to really enjoy the great outdoors, nobody really enjoys having visits from wildlife creatures inside their tent late at night. Since your truck bed tent is raised off the ground, you aren’t likely to be paid a visit by a friendly campground raccoon or other unwelcome visitor in the middle of the night!

Setting up camp in the bed of your tent eliminates problems from wet ground. Sleeping in a traditional tent that has been set up on wet ground can be very uncomfortable and unpleasant. Additionally, the storage of a tent that has been set up on the wet ground presents unique challenges. Having a truck bed tent takes care of such problems.

Where Can I Find a Sportz or Harley Davidson Bed Tent?

• See Camping World for Sportz bed tents
• See Ford Parts People for Harley Davidson bed tents
• See eBay where you never know what you might find!

Helpful Hint

Before you select a truck bed tent, verify that the one you want to purchase is the right size for your truck.