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PersonJLines
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I'm new to camping, thinking of using a tarp to provide a cooking shelter. I have an Arizona 300 tent (basically a tall dome). Would I be better attaching the tarp to tent or having it freestanding? It attaching it is the best option could you suggest the best way of doing this?

Thanks in advance.


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Welcome to UKCS!

In case you have not already performed a search for tarp related threads, here is the link to the tarp origami thread with lots of pics and advice.

Tarp Origami

My personal advice is to set up the tarp so that it can be taken down with ease, and not to leave it up unattended or overnight unless one can be certain of calm weather with only light winds.

Perhaps a separate cooking/utility tent would be more practical for your needs - once it is set up, it can be left in place until it is time to go home.

Have fun camping!

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A tarp can be used as a free standing ridge dining shelter or as extension to a tent with the poles at the further edge.
Put up your tent, place one edge of the tarp over the top of the tent then peg it down, then erect and peg down the poles at the far end of the tarp. The tent door should be under the tarp, making the tarp a tent flysheet extension.
if this doesn't work for you erect the tarp as a separate dining/cooking shelter but the campsite may charge you for a 2nd tent.
Experiment.


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After wrestling with tarps for a few years I got a Decathlon fishing umbrella. They sell a spike you can hammer into the ground. Side walls for it are sold separately and means you can peg it down, We can get two chairs and a stove under it. Again drop it at night and when out but a lot easier than a tarp.



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