Advice on a pop up. Coachman? Starcraft?

tatest wrote:
Since I still tent camp from time to time, I look at a pop-up or a folding tent trailer as a tent that is up off the ground. I remain tempted by that, only because I like tenting, and as I age if find it harder to get up from sleeping on the ground.

But I also know a pop-up is a lot more work to set up and take down than my 7x7 umbrella tent, even more so when breaking camp in wet weather. For buying new, I'm seeing pop-ups more expensive than lightweight travel trailers with similar space. So I am also looking at A-frames and 13-17 foot egg trailers as my smaller camper alternative.

There are not many pop-up manufacturers today. Jayco owns the Starcraft brand, their Starcraft factory makes parallel lines of pop-ups and A-frames for both brands. Forest River now owns Coachmen and Palomino, also makes their own Flagstaff and Rockwood twin lines of popups and A-frames; there, I'm not sure what manufacturing cross-over there might be among the four brands. Columbia Northwest, manufacturer of A-Liner, owns Fleetwood's brands, but I haven't seen any at dealers or shows.