Best Beach Tents - Consumer Reports

Published 11 hours ago• 2 minute read

The best beach tents provide shade, protect you and your loved ones from UV rays, and allow you to extend your time at the beach. However, some models are easier to assemble than others.

I don’t like assembling things. If handed stakes and asked to make some sort of beach shelter appear, I am going to apply sunscreen, put on a sun hat, and hope for the best. But my attitude also leads to envy when I see beachgoers retreat within their shady beach tents to enjoy sandless watermelon and maybe even change out of wet clothes in private. So I decided this summer was going to be the summer of the beach tent. How hard could it be to pitch one, right?

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Lisa Fogarty

Lisa Fogarty is a multimedia content creator at Consumer Reports. She studied journalism at Columbia University and has written numerous health, parenting, fitness, and wellness articles for The New York Times, Psychology Today, Vogue, and NPR. Lisa is passionate about mental health and is a co-creator of The Hunger Trap Podcast, which focuses on eating disorders. In her spare time she surfs, plays the guitar, and kickboxes. Follow her on X: @lisacfogarty

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