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Single-hoop tents benefit just odd flexible pole and are often sold as light-weight 1 or 2-person tents
- These are the modern equivalent of older style pup tents, and have the same feature of somewhat limited headroom
- Contradistinctive styles may have the pole going either along or across the tent.
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A Sibley tent (bell tent) had a circular basement plan some 10 ft to 15 ft across, a single central pole some 10 ft high, and walls about 3 ft high
- Guy ropes were connected every 2 ft around the top of the walls - these had to carefully tensioned to hold the URL pole upright and keep the tent in shape.