Get a no-see-um net with a bathtub floor

The most important thing is mesh fine enough to block no-see-ums, and a bathtub floor to keep bugs from crawling under.

Regular mosquito netting has 1.2mm holes — fine for mosquitoes, useless for the tiny biting midges (no-see-ums) that plague a lot of prime camping spots. You want 0.6mm or smaller mesh. Check the spec, don’t trust “no-see-um” on the label unless they give the hole size.

A bathtub floor (a fabric bottom that comes up the sides a few inches) is non-negotiable if you’re sleeping on the ground. Open-bottom nets rely on you tucking the edges under your sleeping pad, which always fails at 3 AM. If you’re in a hammock, you can skip the floor —