Offroad Travel Trailers in the US?
My favorite type of camping is in the middle of nowhere, away from everyone else. This often means travel over hundreds of miles off road. I'm not talking a dirt road you could take a prius on, but a ...
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I towed a Nash 22GQ up the Dempster Highway in the Canadian Arctic. It's 456 miles one way and six miles of it are paved. It ends 200 miles north of the arctic circle When you get to the end at the village of Inuvik, you turn around and come back. I didn't have any problems with the trailer. I flipped the axles after I got back.
I think you've come to realize that anything big enough to full time in comfortably is not going to be an off road trailer. I realize that, "big enough to live in comfortably" is subjective. The 22GQ was 24 ft. That's a lot of overhang for off road but works pretty well for, "off the pavement". Living in Utah, you know that even your van is too big for a lot of serious, "off roading". There again, that is a subjective term. I had a pop up camper built on a '76 GMC Jimmy years ago that was very good off road but, I wouldn't want to try to live in it. It went over Elephant Hill in Canyonlands a number of times.
Towing the trailer as far as is comfortable and driving the TV beyond that works.
I am currently full timing in an Arctic Fox 29V which is about 30 ft.with two slide outs. I am contemplating another trip to the Canadian Arctic this summer. I have some concern about how the slide outs will handle 1000 miles off the pavement. I'll let you know if that trip transpires.
I think you've come to realize that anything big enough to full time in comfortably is not going to be an off road trailer. I realize that, "big enough to live in comfortably" is subjective. The 22GQ was 24 ft. That's a lot of overhang for off road but works pretty well for, "off the pavement". Living in Utah, you know that even your van is too big for a lot of serious, "off roading". There again, that is a subjective term. I had a pop up camper built on a '76 GMC Jimmy years ago that was very good off road but, I wouldn't want to try to live in it. It went over Elephant Hill in Canyonlands a number of times.
Towing the trailer as far as is comfortable and driving the TV beyond that works.
I am currently full timing in an Arctic Fox 29V which is about 30 ft.with two slide outs. I am contemplating another trip to the Canadian Arctic this summer. I have some concern about how the slide outs will handle 1000 miles off the pavement. I'll let you know if that trip transpires.
