Help with bigger TT trade - best light TT 23-29 foot?

We wanted to get a smaller rig after selling our 32' fifth wheel and do more dry camping.We bought a Coleman 202RD with a GVW of 7600# and unloaded weight of 4400# with cargo capacity of 3200#.This is a bare bones trailer with no slides and is 8ft wide and 24'11" long.It has a 60gal fresh water cap. with 42 grey and 42 black tanks. Two small(20#) propane tanks round out the highlights.We had a second battery and power
hitch lift installed and I replaced the bathroom fan with a remote Fantastic fan.I'm ready for our first dry camp trip to the Metolius river next week after two state park visits with full hookups !

Aimcat wrote:
Our truck is rated to tow 8000 but I don't want to max it out

Tow ratings and payload for the tongue weight, passengers and stuff are two different things. An 8,000 lb. GVWR trailer loaded could put 900 lbs. of tongue weight on the tow vehicle. I towed a 7,200 lb. travel trailer with a 1/2-ton Tahoe (well within the Tahoe's tow and payload ratings). The TV sat level with a good WD hitch, but the trailer was still too much for the Tahoe in the mountains and on bad roads.

Rob

Would you guys consider ones withoh slides? Just seems like a slide gives you more space and open feel. In our trailer my husband and I felt like we were right on top of each other the whole time.

There are several that meet that list of wants. Keystone passport ultralights maybe
25' box models under 5000lbs with more storage, 2520 also has a 76 gallon grey tank which is great for dry camping. Your in Va, www.RV007.com is located in Danville and has several in stock with prices around 22k.

If it helps it will always only be my husband and I in our truck 3 small dogs, their small kennels, and light amount of gear. I would say at max adding 1000lbs inside the truck or bed.

You probably will not like what I just bought, a Jayco Jay Flight 23RB. It's a "stick and tin", no slide model. Strictly old school. It is 27' 2" long, bumper to ball.

But compared to my previous trailer, it has tons more room inside. My old trailer was a Skyline Koala 21CS which was 24' 1" long, bumper to ball. the old one also has a shallow slide, but as also only 7' 6" wide.

My new traileris 6500# GVWR, 4758# shipped from the factory, and 1742# CC. It sits on ST205/75R15 LRD rubber.

We go camping this weekend for the first time, but we have spent the night in it in our driveway. For us, it seems to be a good compromise length, weight, interior space wise.

We shall see what the coming years prove.

But as others have already said, you need first to get the CC of your truck (yellow placard) on the driver side door of your TV. With a 1/2 you will almost always run out of it before you run out of tow capacity.

You will usually find the truck will exceed its cargo capacity before it exceeds its tow rating.

You might be better off renting the size TT you think you want, before you sell your current TT.

Our truck is rated to tow 8000 but I don't want to max it out

by the time you get to 29 ft, you'll likely not find any that are under 5,000lbs empty, let alone 5,000 lbs when loaded up ready to go. My 30 ft trailer is 7600lbs empty, over 9,000 loaded and ready to roll.

23 ft, do some looking there you may find some under 5,000 empty.