It really depends on your needs and wants. I would never own a 2 door wrangler again, I have gone back and forth a lot with vehicles looking for the perfect hunting vehicle. I have had pickups and full-sized blazers and Suburbans, CJ's, Cherokee's, Xterra, Wrangler, Unlimited Rubicon, and now a 4 door Tacoma.
For the woods for myself, I would never go back to a full-sized pickup/vehicle, there are so many places they just won't go that you can take a smaller vehicle, getting them unstuck compared to a small vehicle is also a PITA. My vehicles are dedicated hunting/mountain vehicles because my work supplies me with a company vehicle and my wife has her vehicle we use for trips.
The 4 door Cherokee and Xterra's are good vehicles, do well off-road and in the woods, and are nice to drive. The Xterra is the most comfortable to sleep in and I slept in mine a lot when I had it and my boys were small, I've even slept in it with my buddies a couple of times, it was cozy but comfortable.
For the last 4 years, I have been driving a 4 Door Rubicon with 37's, 5:13 gears, long arm lift and all the other gear to make it awesome off-road. It did decent on fuel and I even hauled my 20" camp trailer to ID hunting several years in a row with it. The downside was that there just isn't any cargo room in the jeep with more than two people. My kids are getting older and the final straw for the jeep was a road trip to ID on a deer hunt with both my boys 10 & 13 at the time and my father. We put a hitch carrier on the back for getting coolers and gear there but in the woods that isn't practical to haul around, with rifles and winter gear getting around in the jeep sucked, we were constantly shuffling gear around just to get to stuff and it really was a nightmare with all of that gear.
The Rubicon excelled off-road, I used it for shed hunting and I could go anywhere with 5lbs of air and front and rear lockers that vehicle would comfortably go places no full-sized vehicle or even most smaller vehicles could go and it was still reliable enough to hop on the freeway and drive several hundred miles. It drove pretty decent but taking trips down to southern OR antelope hunting it defiantly made for a long trip.
I ended up selling the Jeep last fall and I went back and forth a lot, I was going to go full-sized but after driving a few around and knowing what my F150 I drive for work is like off-road I knew I wanted something smaller. I ended up setting on a Tacoma, I really wanted a 6' bed truck but ended up finding a great deal on a 4 door short box, It has everything I wanted except the long box. The reason I wanted a long box was so I could sleep in the back, I can still sleep in the short box but I have to leave the topper opened in the back. After years of driving Jeeps and smaller SUV's jumping in the Tacoma for a long road trip is awesome, I bought a tall topper for the back and I can get a lot of gear in there and have the entire front of the vehicle empty and able to move around comfortably. We took the pickup on our ID hunt last fall with both boys and my wife over thanksgiving and it was super comfortable.
For an all-around hunting/mountain vehicle, I don't think a Tacoma can be beat. For an offroad mountain vehicle, the Rubicon runs circles around the Tacoma. More ground clearance, better approach, and departure angles. I defiantly missed my Rubicon this spring shed hunting and it cost me some sheds not being able to access a lot of my spots until a month later after all of the snow melted. I do feel like the Tacoma's pro's defiantly outweighed the cons.
The Wrangler was way too small, even with two people and gear.
The Rubicon is a great mountain vehicle and hunting vehicle but not great for long trips out of state.
The Tacoma is a great all-around vehicle, it doesn't really excel anywhere but it performs well everywhere.
What the Tacoma looked like when I bought it
