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!

ashnic
Explorer
Mar 15, 2015
Is suppose to be 72 here tomorrow in Southern Ohio..We are going to give it one more week and I think we are going to pull her out..
MKirkland
Explorer
Mar 15, 2015
We get ours out of heated storage on 3/26. Weather here in North Central Washington has been in the 40's at night. I got everything that I pulled out of the trailer stacked by the garage door to go back in. Guess I'm not in a big hurry or anything!
FLY_4_FUN
Explorer
Mar 15, 2015
As soon as there is no ice and snow between our rig and the highway....so likely another month!!!

Daryll
Winterwolf227
Explorer
Mar 15, 2015
We are pulling ours out Friday (March 20th) and getting ready to head to Cannon Beach Oreogn for Spring Break. It has been a very mild winter in Portland, OR. We had 12 days over 60' in Feb.

Glad I don't live in Boston this year !!
2_Sooners
Explorer
Mar 15, 2015
April 15. Can't wait!!!
Nvr2loud
Explorer II
Mar 12, 2015
CavemanCharlie wrote:
Nvr2loud wrote:
CavemanCharlie wrote:
I thought about this weekend. It's going to be warm enough here. But, I have to be home at 7am Saturday morning to make a reservation at a campground for next summer. Maybe the weather will hold and I can go the weekend after this. Or, maybe I'll just sneak out to that little park 5 miles from me. I would not put water in the tanks yet. I'll just use bottled water and a porta-potti in the bathroom.

You have to make a reservation for next summer already....

I can't plan that far ahead, I'm very lucky to have 7 Provincial Parks within 1.5 hours of my house. I just leave on a Thursday night and take first-come sites / non-reserve sites. If I wait until Friday morning, they are all typically taken already.

90 days... I thought you meant next summer (2016) my bad LOL.

We have the same foolishness here for the Provincial Parks, however we have 5 months of window. You also only have a few minutes until all reserve-able sites are gone. There are only a few non-reserve sites in each park.

I wish all campsites were first-come. But, around here a lot of them are on a reservation basis. The campground I'm looking at has a 90 day window for reservations. The reservation system opens at 7am. If I don't get a site by 7:10am they will all be sold out.

It sucks.
Doug33
Explorer
Mar 12, 2015
I keep mine next to the house. Probably will de-winterize in early April after threat of freeze is over.
rbpru
Explorer II
Mar 12, 2015
After a week of 40 to 50 degree weather I can finally reach my TT without a snow blower.

It will get pulled up next to the house on 3/13 and we will clean up after the mouse prom that was held in the kitchen.

New batteries for all the alarms and maybe a country round the block (4 miles) to test the running gear.

I will not de-winterize before our first outing which may be the week of March 23rd if the weather holds.

We will get more Indiana snow for sure but this time of year, the sun always wins.

That is the plan
Jim_n_Steph
Explorer
Mar 12, 2015
Comes out 3/21 and 4/2 heading down to Rock Island SP TN and Harrison SP cant wait
CavemanCharlie
Explorer III
Mar 12, 2015
Nvr2loud wrote:
CavemanCharlie wrote:
I thought about this weekend. It's going to be warm enough here. But, I have to be home at 7am Saturday morning to make a reservation at a campground for next summer. Maybe the weather will hold and I can go the weekend after this. Or, maybe I'll just sneak out to that little park 5 miles from me. I would not put water in the tanks yet. I'll just use bottled water and a porta-potti in the bathroom.

You have to make a reservation for next summer already....

I can't plan that far ahead, I'm very lucky to have 7 Provincial Parks within 1.5 hours of my house. I just leave on a Thursday night and take first-come sites / non-reserve sites. If I wait until Friday morning, they are all typically taken already.

I wish all campsites were first-come. But, around here a lot of them are on a reservation basis. The campground I'm looking at has a 90 day window for reservations. The reservation system opens at 7am. If I don't get a site by 7:10am they will all be sold out.

It sucks.