MSR Freelite 2 Person Ultralight Backpacking Tent Review

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1. Polo Family Verified Buyer – 2 August 2024

   Second MSR tent I’ve owned by MSR. Cascade Designs owns MSR, Therm-a-Rest & Platypus. Needed the rain fly repaired/replaced on my original Freelite 2 tent. Contacted Cascade Designs for warranty service via their website. Received an automated response that my request would be handled in the order it was received. It has been 2 months with no response from Cascade Designs. The Customer Service phone number is useless, it only directs you back to the online warranty service request. It is impossible to actually speak to anyone at Cascade Designs. AVOID ANY PRODUCT FROM CASCADE DESIGNS, THE WARRANTY IS WORTHLESS AND THE PRODUCTS EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE.
   

2. Keith C Enos Verified Buyer – 2 January 2025

   This is a good lightweight tent. Super lightweight. I lived in it on and off for a month. 11 days straight. Everything functioned well. . Good summer weather tent or early fall. I had it covered with a tarp. Simply because of the extreme condition we were in. Condition was a issue. Although we were in the clouds and 100% humidity for days. All and all great supper lightweight tent.
   

3. Michael Russo Verified Buyer – 2 March 2025

   VERY lightweight and compact. Easy to setup and take down. Excellent air ventilation when guyed-out properly. Currently using it for outings on a Caribbean island. Just have to take proper care of the tent and fly, as they are extremely thin and most-likely easily torn/ripped, but haven’t any issues thus far.
   

4. Angela Verified Buyer – 3 March 2025

   Very thin (paper thin) and lightweight. I purchased the footprint separately to make sure the bottom had more protection. It is quite small for 2 people. I am 5’8” normal weight woman and I’m not sure another person would fit comfortably without spooning all night especially with our packs. Someone over 6 ft might have an issue with the length so I would check if you fit before you purchase. Easy one person assembly. Had a hard time figuring out the fly because the instructions on the tent bag weren’t clear about the fly for me. But in the end figured it out.
   Not 5 stars because of that and the fly doesn’t fully cover one side and I’m worried about rain protection. I haven’t had it out in the rain. Will update when I do.
   All in all, great tent.
   

5. J. S. Radford Verified Buyer – 8 March 2025

   Liked tent until out of warranty and poles failed! Beware BAD MSR company/gear: I bought Hubba Hubba NX 2-person tent several years ago (JUST out of warranty). Nearly new, it had pole connector failures (between trips, several connecting pieces came loose and slid inside pole tubes). I discovered this by headlamp with rain on the way. Decided to hike down the 4.25 mile/1600 foot elevation gain in the dark, then drive home 5.5 hours (falling asleep). I have since been reading the negative reports on this tent and it seems MSR/Cascade Designs either do not reply to complaints, do not honor warranties, or even expect their gear to fail. I paid over $337 (!) for Hubba Hubba NX 2-person tent. Not much used yet. I have backpacked 50 years (May 1974-June 2023). This is the first ever pole failure I’ve even heard about much less experienced.

   

6. scubabs Verified Buyer – 10 April 2025

   This is an extremely lightweight texnt and it’s very easy to set up. Enough room for big pack, all my gear and me inside (5’10”, 180lbs). Used it at My Whitney mid April and it was perfect. You do have to bring the extras if you want to stay warm. I was really surprised how warm it did stay with a merge part of the tent being mesh with just the weather cover over it. I replaced the tent stakes with lighter ones. Other than that, this tent it awesome!

   

7. Robin Verified Buyer – 19 April 2025

   Die Konstruktion ist etwas filigran und das Material wirklich extrem dünn. Das ist natürlich dem geringen Gewicht geschuldet, und es war mein Kriterium. Das Zelt ist halb selbsttragend, sollte aber eigentlich nicht ohne Abspannung verwendet werden – außer wenn man sicher ist, dass kein Wind aufkommt oder der Ort gut windgeschützt ist. Ohne Abspannung hängen die Zeltwände am Fußende recht schlaff herunter und der Innenraum wird in dem Bereich kleiner. Zeltunterlage muss man extra dazu kaufen. Die originale von MSR ist aber so überteuert wie das Zelt selber. Das Zelt ist “Made in Vietnam”. An der Verarbeitung gibt es nichts zu bemängeln. Dennoch finde ich den Preis nicht ganz gerechtfertigt. Bei der Unterlegmatte hab ich mich dann für ein doppelt so großes (wird zusammengefaltet verwendet) und dennoch halb so teures Produkt entschieden welches nicht viel schwerer ist als die von MSR.