Destination trailers
This is for those of you that have a Destination trailer. I have a 2014 Wildwood Lodge 394FKDS parked on a seasonal site. My question is have any of you that own a destination trailer used it to go vi...
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As described by a leading RV mfg…
There’s a kind of non-traditional RV that’s turning heads. It’s called a Destination Trailer and offers many luxuries and some unique advantages compared to the traditional RV travel trailer.
What is a Destination Trailer?
It’s designed to be towed to a campground, parked and used throughout the season. It is not primarily intended to be towed back and forth to your home base each weekend or to be towed cross country on an extended vacation, though that is not impossible. Like your typical travel trailer, the destination trailer hooks on to the rear of your tow vehicle, is self contained with waste holding tanks, freshwater tank, refrigerator, running water, and hooks up to an outside power source.
A destination trailer offers more living space and more residential-style appointments than found in a travel trailer. Ceilings and slide out rooms are typically taller creating a more open, spacious feel; furnishings are heavier-weight and residential in construction and appearance; and appliances are like those you might find in your home. Because easy of towability and aerodynamics were not a consideration, you will find features like large, front vertical bay windows and double wide sliding patio doors. Destination trailers frequently weigh in excess of 10,000 pounds and should be towed with a properly equipped one-ton truck.
To say a trailer almost 41 foot in length, that can be near 13 feet in height without the rooftop AC, and 8.5 feet wide wouldn’t place limits you travel experience, only serves to kid yourself… the best you can expect is to accept there are places and CG’s that were build when a 24 foot trailer was considered a pretty big trailer and their facilities desgine didn’t account for 40+ foot trailers or even 40+foot MH’s…
Most destination trailers are going to require a class V hitch and the extra height and width will increase drag considerably…
There’s a kind of non-traditional RV that’s turning heads. It’s called a Destination Trailer and offers many luxuries and some unique advantages compared to the traditional RV travel trailer.
What is a Destination Trailer?
It’s designed to be towed to a campground, parked and used throughout the season. It is not primarily intended to be towed back and forth to your home base each weekend or to be towed cross country on an extended vacation, though that is not impossible. Like your typical travel trailer, the destination trailer hooks on to the rear of your tow vehicle, is self contained with waste holding tanks, freshwater tank, refrigerator, running water, and hooks up to an outside power source.
A destination trailer offers more living space and more residential-style appointments than found in a travel trailer. Ceilings and slide out rooms are typically taller creating a more open, spacious feel; furnishings are heavier-weight and residential in construction and appearance; and appliances are like those you might find in your home. Because easy of towability and aerodynamics were not a consideration, you will find features like large, front vertical bay windows and double wide sliding patio doors. Destination trailers frequently weigh in excess of 10,000 pounds and should be towed with a properly equipped one-ton truck.
To say a trailer almost 41 foot in length, that can be near 13 feet in height without the rooftop AC, and 8.5 feet wide wouldn’t place limits you travel experience, only serves to kid yourself… the best you can expect is to accept there are places and CG’s that were build when a 24 foot trailer was considered a pretty big trailer and their facilities desgine didn’t account for 40+ foot trailers or even 40+foot MH’s…
Most destination trailers are going to require a class V hitch and the extra height and width will increase drag considerably…
