Typically, it is a wooden deck near a hiking trail that provides the hikers a clean and even place to sleep.
It may also prevent the campers from trampling down the surrounding vegetation.
[1][2] Mountaineers sometimes build tent platforms in their base camps from materials such as pebble or snow.
There are roofed, suspended, floating, stacked or portable tent platforms.
[3][4] Large-sized commercial or military tents do often stand on flooring systems, which are large-sized tent platforms.