JeffRaines
WKR
After this past trip, I've kinda sorta started looking into overland style camper trailers - not a teardrop or traditional RV, but rather a trailer with a RTT on it.
Our camping trips typically revolve around fishing, hunting or hiking. When it comes to summertime fishing especially, we tend to hit a body of water for a few days then move onto another for a few days. While I don't mind the tent and sleeping on the ground, I gotta say the setup/teardown of camp(including kitchen stuff) every few days gets daunting.
Before it gets mentioned, we've tried the full size RV thing. A couple complaints I had included the terrible fuel economy(yeah I get that having fun costs, but having fun is even more fun when it's cheap. Most of our trips are 3-12hrs one way. Fuel adds up QUICK at 8-10mpg), the size and necessity of finding a larger spot among other things - the whole time we used that thing I kept thinking "if only I had my tent and stuff with us, we could get into any spot and camp wherever we wanted".
I dont know what I dont know, and that's where you guys come in. One of my biggest concerns about going this route is fuel economy. My truck fully loaded with family and camp in the back still gets 20-22mpg. Now throwing a trailer behind it I'm sure I'm gonna take a hit of some sort... does anyone have any data on this? I realize that trailers and rigs vary greatly, but it would be nice to have some sort of idea of what I'm gonna lose.
Secondly, it seems the market has a ton of options. Of course you can buy some turn key adventure trailer and spend 30-50k or more.... however my budget is far less than that. I'm hoping to keep it around $10k, and I dont mind putting some work if it's new(meaning procuring the RTT, wiring, etc. I can't weld unfortunately). I'm also trying to avoid something that's going to fall apart the first time I take it down a FS road... which brings me to my next thing - capability. I do not need something that's gonna go on super tight actual trails or rock crawling or whatever. The places where I camp are typical FS type roads and those types of pullouts. Also, used definitely isn't out of the question, and would probably be preferable.
I'd like to hear the good, bad and ugly. Any advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Our camping trips typically revolve around fishing, hunting or hiking. When it comes to summertime fishing especially, we tend to hit a body of water for a few days then move onto another for a few days. While I don't mind the tent and sleeping on the ground, I gotta say the setup/teardown of camp(including kitchen stuff) every few days gets daunting.
Before it gets mentioned, we've tried the full size RV thing. A couple complaints I had included the terrible fuel economy(yeah I get that having fun costs, but having fun is even more fun when it's cheap. Most of our trips are 3-12hrs one way. Fuel adds up QUICK at 8-10mpg), the size and necessity of finding a larger spot among other things - the whole time we used that thing I kept thinking "if only I had my tent and stuff with us, we could get into any spot and camp wherever we wanted".
I dont know what I dont know, and that's where you guys come in. One of my biggest concerns about going this route is fuel economy. My truck fully loaded with family and camp in the back still gets 20-22mpg. Now throwing a trailer behind it I'm sure I'm gonna take a hit of some sort... does anyone have any data on this? I realize that trailers and rigs vary greatly, but it would be nice to have some sort of idea of what I'm gonna lose.
Secondly, it seems the market has a ton of options. Of course you can buy some turn key adventure trailer and spend 30-50k or more.... however my budget is far less than that. I'm hoping to keep it around $10k, and I dont mind putting some work if it's new(meaning procuring the RTT, wiring, etc. I can't weld unfortunately). I'm also trying to avoid something that's going to fall apart the first time I take it down a FS road... which brings me to my next thing - capability. I do not need something that's gonna go on super tight actual trails or rock crawling or whatever. The places where I camp are typical FS type roads and those types of pullouts. Also, used definitely isn't out of the question, and would probably be preferable.
I'd like to hear the good, bad and ugly. Any advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
