Hydrous tin oxide gels were subjected to consecutive solvent-evaporation (SE) and CO2 supercritical (CS) drying steps, followed by re-hydration at low (30%) humidity, and the effects on pore structure of the SE drying duration and particle surface potential of the gel were investigated. The difference in surface potential has been found to impose significant variations in initial pore size distribution, while the SE drying step tends to narrow such differences and simultaneously reduce the mean pore size. It is demonstrated that varieties of pore structures have thus been obtained by simply varying these two parameters.