Well, we finally bought... Have a question
Patti got the bug and we have been doing some searching, researching and today went to shop and she saw the one that has been first on her list. We bought the Cougar 284RDB, Bunk. I was not the bigge...
Forum Discussion
I've really never measured the Queen mattress in my Outback. (Cougar and Outback are both Keystone products.) But the mattress that came with my Outback is really a pretty good one. We were prepared to swap it out, but after getting the camper, I think it's a normal size queen. All our sheets fit just fine for a normal queen.
We swapped out the Queen (short one) for a normal Queen (house hold style) on our previous Keystone Springdale. Now that original mattress was awful. We took the trailer mattress and put it under another queen in the house and kept it if we ever sold the camper. Made the bed a little higher, but it provided a great place to store it. Meanwhile, we purchased a new normal queen Serta that was about a foot think! (Great mattress). Put it in the camper and used it till we traded the camper for the current one. When we traded, we put the original back in and took our Serta back out. We were going to use it in the new Outback. Ended up, we didn't need to.
So, if your question about the mattress size is for finding sheets, or for a replacement, I suggest you try the mattress first, at least once, before getting a new one, and if regular sheets fit, no need to purchase specialty sheets ahead of time.
If you do swap out the mattress for a normal Queen, more than likely you'll have no problem at all. Width will not be an issue, it will just be a bit longer, and will hang over the end of the bed frame a little. Not bad, as long as you can still move around the end of the bed.
We swapped out the Queen (short one) for a normal Queen (house hold style) on our previous Keystone Springdale. Now that original mattress was awful. We took the trailer mattress and put it under another queen in the house and kept it if we ever sold the camper. Made the bed a little higher, but it provided a great place to store it. Meanwhile, we purchased a new normal queen Serta that was about a foot think! (Great mattress). Put it in the camper and used it till we traded the camper for the current one. When we traded, we put the original back in and took our Serta back out. We were going to use it in the new Outback. Ended up, we didn't need to.
So, if your question about the mattress size is for finding sheets, or for a replacement, I suggest you try the mattress first, at least once, before getting a new one, and if regular sheets fit, no need to purchase specialty sheets ahead of time.
If you do swap out the mattress for a normal Queen, more than likely you'll have no problem at all. Width will not be an issue, it will just be a bit longer, and will hang over the end of the bed frame a little. Not bad, as long as you can still move around the end of the bed.
