AlpineAccess
Hard Core 4+
I'm three years into thinking about a travel trailer and am leaning now towards something in the realm of a "square drop" around 5x8 to 6x10. I'm here as a sanity check on how this ends up working out for people. I've been taking my time to have a more moderate approach to this process as I want to make sure this is something we will get a lot of use out of.
We've tested a transit van conversion, a class B, and a tow behind '17 ft camper to get an idea about what we liked and didn't like. We have owned an RTT and went back to our ground tent after a year. I also built a sleeping platform for the 100 and it worked ok for short solo trips, but we went back to the ground tent for when my wife and I go together.
We preferred outdoor cooking and prep areas, liked an indoor sleeping area and loved the heat on cold evenings. The ability to keep things packed and separated was nice, and being able to drop the trailer to hold a site while we went fly fishing or into town was good. Onboard water was nice for dishes, and we preferred the outdoor shower with privacy screen on the transit to rinse off on hot days.
Would love something capable of tackling mild trails with a primary use for taking on several day fly fishing outings, 3-5 day trips, and potentially to go visit some family that moved away from Colorado. Another thought is heat/comfort would enable stretching trips further into the shoulder season and a couple places we ski still allow for overnight pay parking for small campers so some extra pow days would be a blessing.
I did some searching here and found a few for sale threads on military style trailers with RTT's, but not much on trailers like this outside of a couple of posts on a beautiful tear drop setup.
We'd be towing it with our mildly built 100, and top speed would probably be about 75mph. I have a lot of notes and ideas and keep coming across more and more clever things people are doing with tear drops and other small campers. I've tackled projects of this scope before like a boat trailer, and have some fabricating ability but am not planning to "overdo" this. I have no interest in building more than one, so my thought is to build something that can be updated as time goes on (would be great if it would have room for a small bunk).
None of these are my images, just some ideas of size/setup from guys who obviously are pretty talented builders.
We've tested a transit van conversion, a class B, and a tow behind '17 ft camper to get an idea about what we liked and didn't like. We have owned an RTT and went back to our ground tent after a year. I also built a sleeping platform for the 100 and it worked ok for short solo trips, but we went back to the ground tent for when my wife and I go together.
We preferred outdoor cooking and prep areas, liked an indoor sleeping area and loved the heat on cold evenings. The ability to keep things packed and separated was nice, and being able to drop the trailer to hold a site while we went fly fishing or into town was good. Onboard water was nice for dishes, and we preferred the outdoor shower with privacy screen on the transit to rinse off on hot days.
Would love something capable of tackling mild trails with a primary use for taking on several day fly fishing outings, 3-5 day trips, and potentially to go visit some family that moved away from Colorado. Another thought is heat/comfort would enable stretching trips further into the shoulder season and a couple places we ski still allow for overnight pay parking for small campers so some extra pow days would be a blessing.
I did some searching here and found a few for sale threads on military style trailers with RTT's, but not much on trailers like this outside of a couple of posts on a beautiful tear drop setup.
We'd be towing it with our mildly built 100, and top speed would probably be about 75mph. I have a lot of notes and ideas and keep coming across more and more clever things people are doing with tear drops and other small campers. I've tackled projects of this scope before like a boat trailer, and have some fabricating ability but am not planning to "overdo" this. I have no interest in building more than one, so my thought is to build something that can be updated as time goes on (would be great if it would have room for a small bunk).
None of these are my images, just some ideas of size/setup from guys who obviously are pretty talented builders.
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