4 season travel Trailers?
Hello, new to this site. I am in Colorado and searching for a small used Travel trailer. I am hearing that for cold weather use, I would need a so-called 4 season, or specially insulated on the unde...
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You might be able to get away with a well built "three and a half season" trailer. I do a fair amount of snow camping with a small Fun Finder -- the walls, ceiling, and floor contain a thick pad of styrofoam, and I then insulated the fresh water tank. I am guessing that a lot of the newer trailers have similar insulation.
But we have not camped in anything below 9 degrees, so this is not the same thing as a trailer designed to take sub-zero temps. The windows are not double pane, and the water lines are not heated. So we put up foam pads over the windows at night to cut down on heat loss, and I have developed a manual method for circulating hot water into the fresh water tank. (Let me know if you want more details on that.)
Living in Ouray, which is essentially Boondocking Heaven, it may make sense for you to pay the big dollars for an Arctic Fox and a big truck. For us, although we love cold weather camping, most of the time in the Sierra it is above freezing, at least in the daytime. So getting a true four season rig might be overkill for us. Our trailer is very light (2500 pounds), easy to tow with a Tacoma.
Having said that, if Outdoor RV made a 14 foot trailer, I would be sorely tempted!
But we have not camped in anything below 9 degrees, so this is not the same thing as a trailer designed to take sub-zero temps. The windows are not double pane, and the water lines are not heated. So we put up foam pads over the windows at night to cut down on heat loss, and I have developed a manual method for circulating hot water into the fresh water tank. (Let me know if you want more details on that.)
Living in Ouray, which is essentially Boondocking Heaven, it may make sense for you to pay the big dollars for an Arctic Fox and a big truck. For us, although we love cold weather camping, most of the time in the Sierra it is above freezing, at least in the daytime. So getting a true four season rig might be overkill for us. Our trailer is very light (2500 pounds), easy to tow with a Tacoma.
Having said that, if Outdoor RV made a 14 foot trailer, I would be sorely tempted!
