Outwell Jacksondale 5PA

With three different zones, spanning the front porch, living, and sleeping area, the Outwell Jacksondale 5PA will provide your family with plenty of space for your camping holiday.

Tent Overview

See it in our video at 9:35.

The Outwell Jacksondale 5PA is packed full of features.

While the Outwell Avondale 6PA provides more bedroom space, the Outwell Jacksondale 5PA has some additional features, such as cable entry on both sides and into both bedrooms. It is a longer tent too, with the front of the tent can act as a porch or extended living space.

If you prefer to use the front area of the tent to make one large living space, you still have a rain-safe entrance as one of the side doors also has a porch.

Side porch
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Tent Layout

Outwell Jacksondale 5PA layout
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One thing that we found useful is the Quick and Quiet door between the living area of the tent and the front porch zone. We would often have the tent front door open and rolled back, converting this tent layout into having a sheltered front porch.  On warm days, we would roll back the windows on that door, leaving the bug mesh in place. Using the Quick and Quiet doors makes it easy to go in and out of the tent, and the door would self close the bug mesh behind you. 🙂

Quick & Quiet bedroom door. (Different model tent).
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The bedrooms are separated with a zip-up divider. You can easily remove this to make one large family room, which is something we sometimes do.

The back of the tent doesn’t slope as much as some brands, and along with the longer-than-standard bedrooms, you can fit in camp beds. Though when doing so, the tent will be able to sleep fewer people as camp beds tend to be wider than most sleeping mats.

Example of a bedroom with dividers removed and camp beds in place. This is a different model tent.
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Pitching the Tent

This is an inflatable tent.

Pitching instructions are on the inside of the tent bag. You basically peg out the tent corners and then inflate each of the five air tubes to the required pressure. Outwell supplies their excellent Cyclone pump, which comes with a pressure gauge.

There is only one tent pole, and that’s for the side porch.

Outwell Cyclone Pump
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The tent does weigh 33.4 kg and has a large pack size of 100 cm long and 45 cm round. This will require 2 adults to pitch by helping get the tent unrolled and in position.

It’s generally much easier to inflate air tubes than insert tent poles, so you won’t necessarily need two people all the time, which is useful if you have young kids to supervise.