Just curious because the wife and I are chomping on the bit to pull out the camper and get ready to hit it this spring..We still have another month or so I guess..woke up this morning to -8 here in southern Ohio.

I've twice made the mistake of working hard to winterize my unit only to pull it out too early in March and have a freeze break something. Granted, it's just a trailer so it's not like a house pipe crack.Still, Central Indiana can be very far below 32 well into April. These are really just big toys, you have to follow the rules if you want to keep them nice.

What camper? OH! That Camper! It's going to be a while. We're on the side of a mountain so I'll have wait until the snow melts off the ice. Then I might be able to get the tractor out of the ditch because it's half way down our 800 foot long driveway stuck in ice. We've been snowed in for a week and a half and it's not going to start to melt for 3 more days. There's an inch of ice under 4 inches of snow. I don't know how long it's going to take for us to see blacktop again. At least we have power and water. Many in Tennessee don't. The covered docks at the lake sunk and took the boats (under the roof) down with them. It's a mess! Now we'll have all that gas and oil in the lake. One day at a time.

We usually de-winterize the first week of April, sooner if weather permits. However it can still snow a couple of weeks into April. It just takes me about fifteen minutes and a gallon and a half of the pink stuff, so I don't mind to re-winterize a time or two if I need to.BTW, it snowed six inches here last night! :M

UGHHH Can't happen soon enough for me!! Mine is in the driveway, covered up, looking cold and lonesome. Dying to get in there and do some work!

I have not used my TT before May 1 yet before this year. This year we are towing it to South Carolina leaving April 3. I''ll probably get it from storage March 28. If the temps look bad, I can de-winterize after traveling the first day. It doesn't take long.

Those that store their campers..when you pulling them out!

Nvr2loud
Explorer II
Mar 02, 2015
bigj3234 wrote:
We've been itching to get it out, too. This will be our first full year of camping. Bought the camper last Memorial Day, took a couple weeks to get it, and ran it into a tree on our second trip out (took six weeks to fix).

As others have stated, waiting for a week or so of night-time temps above freezing. Will pull it out of the shed and clean it up, probably will not de-winterize until first week of April, just to be safe.

Night time temps above freezing... wouldn't that be great!

I'm counting the days until we have day time temps above freezing and night time temps far below freezing... then I will tap the trees and let that sap run! Maple Syrup season is almost here!!!

The trailer comes out of the winter cover the first weekend in May, by then the driveway is no longer too soft to move the trailer around and most of the snow is gone. I'm typically in Florida for the last two weeks of April anyway, so the trailer sits in my yard slowly melting snow from itself while I bask in the sun!
bigj3234
Explorer
Mar 02, 2015
We've been itching to get it out, too. This will be our first full year of camping. Bought the camper last Memorial Day, took a couple weeks to get it, and ran it into a tree on our second trip out (took six weeks to fix).

As others have stated, waiting for a week or so of night-time temps above freezing. Will pull it out of the shed and clean it up, probably will not de-winterize until first week of April, just to be safe.
Blue_Hill
Explorer
Feb 27, 2015
It's going to be 30 below zero with a wind chill of -42 tonight, so we won't be camping for a while. Trailer should come out of storage in mid May.
hawkeye-08
Explorer III
Feb 25, 2015
My wife thinks we should get it out and start using it for visits to my brother's. She likes having our own space, especially the bedroom. Without the trailer, we usually go down and back same day (couple hours each way). We've had a bit of mild winter but still respect what the weather can do so will dry camp probably until May...
GaryWT
Explorer
Feb 25, 2015
Bucky Badger wrote:
The people in the north east will pull them out sometime in late July

I resemble that remark. Would like to camp in early May but not sure if it will happen this year, the snow is pretty high all around the camper.
PAThwacker
Explorer
Feb 25, 2015
First trip of the year is March 20th for a canvas camper rally.
Current temps/climate "arctic". I don't think I'll make that trip.
pira114
Explorer II
Feb 25, 2015
I store my trailer because I don't have room for it. But I've never really winterized like most.

After each trip, I blow out the lines as best I can. That's about it. I live in the Sierras (Profile needs to be changed). We get lots of freezing temps.

Reason I don't is that it's common for me to use it a couple days each month. Couple weeks in Oct for hunting season. Much more in the summer.

So I use it so much that winterizing just doesn't work out.
scbwr
Explorer II
Feb 25, 2015
Heading to FL in mid March. I'll winterize the water system when we get back. Then, end of May, it will be off to the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone and Glacier! After that, more fun exploring Ohio and nearby states....west coast on MI is calling!!
geotex1
Explorer
Feb 25, 2015
Camper will come back to the house March 14 as I'm not paying for another month of storage unless we get buried by a late snow. First trip of the season for our anniversary in mid-April.
michigansandzil
Explorer
Feb 25, 2015
Our first trip is planned for Memorial weekend. Due to other commitments, we don't really have any opportunity to camp earlier than that.

We have camped at the end of April before. It just depends on the year. Last year, there was accumulated winter snow on the ground that didn't thaw until mid April.