Do you find awning useful?

mileshuff wrote:
I've never understood why so many people spend almost their entire time inside their trailer or RV. Might as well just stay at home.

We love sitting outside under the awning. Shade when sunny, covered in the rain. We spend far more time outside than in.

Don't take this the wrong way...

I agree with "outside is better"

AND, I love my awning.

Now, what % of the time do we use it?

It's a bit on the low side- after seeing them get destroyed by winds and rain (if you don't set them correctly), I leave mine up except when we actually use it...and sometimes I forget then too.

So some of these people who never use them...they aren't anti-outside, and they really aren't anti-awning...they just do fine without them.

I've never understood why so many people spend almost their entire time inside their trailer or RV. Might as well just stay at home.

We love sitting outside under the awning. Shade when sunny, covered in the rain. We spend far more time outside than in.

Lynnmor wrote:
A manual awning is useful. A power awning needs to be retracted if there is any wind or rain rendering it useless.

I find the same to be true with manual awnings. Neither can handle strong winds. Some are better than others.

We tent camped for years before buying our first, very small trailer. We did not get the optional awning, and missed it one single day in the 10 years we owned the trailer. (Overnight in the "Devils Garden" at Arches NP.)

On the class C, there was no option. It came with an awning. In the 4 years we've had it, the awning has been used once, to sit outside in the rain.

Everyone's different. I guess we are firmly in the minority.

Happy Camping!

If we got a nickle each time we used the awing, we don't have enough to pay for two sticks of gum, and that's with 60* days out each year for 10 years.

bid_time wrote:
I would not even consider a trailer without an awning.

A manual awning. No power for me.

We rarely deploy our awning. We just sit out in the sunshine and store anything we do not want to get wet under the front of the 5th wheel. We saw many destroyed awnings at Cherry Hill Campground near DC during a visit. A short duration severe storm rolled through and even though the campground warned about leaving awning out when away from the RV, many people left them out and came back to lots of damage. And yes, the awning was an option on our 5th wheel. We decided on the manual as it was the lowest cost.

Absolutely! We've had several rigs and all of them had awnings. The only one we rarely used was on our large PUP. That one was such a booger to put up that we just didn't bother. I love our big awning on the one we have now. It's a great place to hang out in the shade during hot summers or when it's raining.

That is true. we beach camp alot in full sun and the awning does keep the rv cooler and AC works a bit less hard.

Even if we do not intend to sit outside very much we usually extend it, especially when warm and sunny. It noticeably makes it cooler inside and the AC does not have to work as hard.

We retract at night and when we will be gone any extended period. It only takes a few minutes and may save headaches if a sudden gust comes up when we are not there.