Timber Ridge by Outdoors

HGL wrote:
My husband and I are looking at getting our first TT and have narrowed it down to the Timber Ridge bunk house. I grew up on boats in the PNW so this will be a first experience for me. I am curious as to what others who own one think. Do you use all 4 seasons, as we are planning on doing? We have a 2012 F-150 CC, 5.4 L, FX4, long bed with 1:3.73. I have been told so many different tow capacities by the dealership we bought the truck from. I am getting numbers from 9200 to 10200 so this is all a bit confusing. Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.

A 2012 F-150 doesn't come with the 5.4L V8. Maybe you mean the 5L V8?
That 4x4 SCrew has a MAX payload of 1570# and a tow capacity of 9100#, unless you are fortunate enough to have the HD Payload option.

We too are looking a Timber Ridge trailers. They seem very well built, off-road capable, and 4-season capable, especially if you get the thermal-pane option and heating pad option.

They are wood-framed and not light though. The 240RKS we are looking at could well have a 900# hitch weight and weigh 7200# once we load it up. The 270DBHS (bunkhouse) weighs about 1100# more.

We have a 2012 Timber Ridge 240RKS. We didn't get the double pane windows, and don't deliberately camp in the winter months, but we do camp well into the shoulder seasons where we sometimes get snow, and nighttime temps into the low teens or single digits. The TT does great in these conditions other than a little condensation on the windows. My last trailer I had the gray water line freeze and break on me in similar conditions because the dump valve wasn't in the heated underbelly.

As for Timber Ridge, mine seems pretty tough, and does great for the type camping we do which is mostly off the beaten path no hookup type stuff.

Thank you for your posts. We placed our customized build order on Wednesday and will be picking up on the first weekend in August. We are ally excited, but also scrambling to get everything we need as we are driving 320 miles to get it.

Post pics of the new unit. I've seen a few of those around the puget sound area, along with the Blackstones. They look nice. I believe that Outdoors Mfg is owned by Northwood, who mfg Artic Foxes which are well regarded.

I have had my Outdoor RV Creekside bunkhouse for 1.5 years and it has been great. Heavy of course and very tall but it has been great.

One thing that may surprise you is that the hitch is very high. I have a drop shank hitch for my WDH system turned upside down and the head on the top holes to tow with my F350!!

We recently purchased from Outdoors RV the Blackstone 260,very familiar with there line of TT's.I pull mine with a 2007 Tundra with no problem except for trailer sway when loaded with water.Remedied that with a pair of anti-friction sway control arms ($40) a piece.I estimate I have about 8200 pounds behind me and the V8 gas pulls it just fine,10 MPG is average,my brothers Dodge Diesel pulls it with authority but he was averaging 11MPG.Don't see that it is worth price difference.As for the trailer you are going to love it,we went to La Grande for the factory tour and they make a hell of a trailer.Minor details add up to a trailer that will not be junk in 10 years

We have slept through some freezing night's comfortably with our Blackstone.We upgraded the solar panel to 150 watts and kept the heat pad on and heater all day and night with no problems.Are's has the thermal paned windows which help a lot for condensation I suppose but also seems to keep the trailer cooler in the summer.The 12 volt TV's were a nice touch and the tank less hot water is amazing.All LED lighting is the best.Hardly use the generator other than when the microwave need's to be used or AC.

We are really excited and from all the research we figure this will be trailer that we keep for a very long time. We are having the factory add all the solar panels we can get as we plan on doing a lot of dry camping and would prefer not to have to run the generator all the time. We will probably do a custom modification with additional batteries after we see how it does during the winter.