Which 5th Wheel Camper? - Recommendations?

Pick your floor plan and your RV, then get your truck equal to the towing task. Hire a certified RV tech to inspect your choice (used) before you buy.

I'll offer this in your selection, try to find one with Auto Leveling, adds to the price, but makes setup and tear down much easier. I'm only a couple years your junior, but wouldn't have a unit without Auto Leveling and Disc Brakes.

LOFAT36 wrote:
We have a 2012 Crossroads Cruiser 33'-0 which weighs just under 9800 lbs. dry. It has 3 slides & kitchen island (lots of counter space), tons of cupboards and a fireplace and we both love it. Pulls great with our 2010 Silverado 2500 HD Duramax.

Sorry I can't resist! You pull your RV DRY? Have you weighed it after owning it for a while and you slowly accumulate lots if "STUFF" ?

Lots of choices, too many to give really good advice without you narrowing things down a little. With that said, I suspect you don't know where to start given the wide universe of 5ers.

Regarding truck, do you have or will get a newer one (last couple years the capacity has gone up significantly) or is it older and thereby limiting your capacity? If pre-~2012 the advice of ~10klbs for a 2500 is pretty good, if newer you might be able to bump that up a couple thousand. If you're buying new I would recommend considering a 3500 as price isn't that much more but it adds even more capacity.

As I'm sure you've read, rear capacity of your TV will be the limiting factor in your 5er choice - ~20% of 5er weight is on bed of truck.

Regarding 5er, if looking at used there is still a wide variety depending on how much you can spend. If you can, I'd recommend an older mid-higher level 5er as opposed to a little bit newer entry level trailer. Again depending on your budget the Artic Fox and Cedar Creeks mentioned would be good choices. I'd add that Montana's, HitchHikers, Excels and many others fit in that range well (but can be heavy). We had an older Jayco Eagle TT we were very happy with too.

Start by getting a sense of floor plan you'd be interested in. Go look at some and sit in a few. Then start narrowing down what you like and don't like. A little more information will allow this forum to provide you much better advice.

Good luck!

Getting a trailer a few years old is a great idea as most of the bugs will have been worked out by then. Seems most all the trailers made these days lack a quality control section at the factory so we end up doing the QC duties.

We have a 2012 Crossroads Cruiser 33'-0 which weighs just under 9800 lbs. dry. It has 3 slides & kitchen island (lots of counter space), tons of cupboards and a fireplace and we both love it. Pulls great with our 2010 Silverado 2500 HD Duramax.

OP asked about used. Since older trucks had far lower numbers I am making an assumption OP could be asking about trucks as far back as 2000. Hense the low numbers.

donn0128 wrote:
Greetings.
For a 2500 series truck depending on age and drive train your really limiting yourself to fivers 10,000 pounds and under. In other words around 30 feet long max. What you really need to do is go RV shopping. Find what you like and dont like. Once you find your ideal fiver then match a truck to comfortably tow the fivers GVWR.
As for brands? In the used market it makes little difference. More important will be overall condition and how well it has been maintained.
Personally used or new there is probably only two brands I would look at. Arctic Fox or Cedar Creek. I have owned both in the past and was happy with both.

Under 30' and less than 10k pounds for a 2500 truck? That seems a bit stingy. I'm at 35' and 11.5K pounds and still within specs on my GMC 2500HD.

I hear good things as well about Arctic Fox and Cedar Creek. I tried to get the forum to help build a quality vs price chart but didn't get too far. This is as far as I got...

http://vps1.tincreek.com/5th%20wheel%20quality%20chart.png

Good Luck, that's like asking what brand of car to buy. Too many choices on no information.

Greetings.
For a 2500 series truck depending on age and drive train your really limiting yourself to fivers 10,000 pounds and under. In other words around 30 feet long max. What you really need to do is go RV shopping. Find what you like and dont like. Once you find your ideal fiver then match a truck to comfortably tow the fivers GVWR.
As for brands? In the used market it makes little difference. More important will be overall condition and how well it has been maintained.
Personally used or new there is probably only two brands I would look at. Arctic Fox or Cedar Creek. I have owned both in the past and was happy with both.