class c or tow trailer, which is better?

pnichols wrote:

rfryer wrote:
But my style is primarily camping where I set up a base camp somewhere and use the TV for my sightseeing. And I go well off pavement a lot and the C isn’t very good for that. So we’re at an impasse for the moment, I see no point in a C when my TT will go everywhere a C will and many other places it won’t. As said by previous posters, the key is how you intend to travel/camp.

I'm honestly very curious as to where a TT will go that a small C on the rugged ton and a half E450 chassis - with it's wheelbase at only 139 inches, or 158 inches at most - will not? Specific examples would be appreciated.

IMHO, towing a TT comfortable enough to live in when it's fairly cold, or fairly hot, or raining for several days ... will not go places where a small well-set-up self-contained C cannot. Also, the vehicle towing the trailer will never have the traction that having a C's weight on it's rear drive wheels provides - even considering that the way less heavy tow vehicle might be a 4X4. We take our 24 foot E450 Class C offroad whenever necessary ... when the DW is in the hunt trying to find rocks!

Yours must be set up quite differently than my 29' on the E450, I would never consider taking mine off road, (unless it was VERY smooth), it's not the wheel base length, it's the ground clearance, my exhaust pipe has about 10" of clearance, the dump valves about the same, the generator exhaust, slightly more.
I'd love to venture a little farther off road, but really not looking forward to leaving parts strewn off into the backwoods.
The average TT rides higher than the average Class C.