Best Beach Tents
CR evaluated four pop-up beach tents and disliked half of them—but two offered stress-free setup, privacy, and plenty of shade
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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?