Towing a travel trailer with a truck camper?
My wife and I are looking for ways to move up from our current popup camper to something more comfortable and all weather. Thing is, we are a family of 5 although the oldest is soon to leave for coll...
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Don't have a tow vehicle yet. Well, actually I'm towing the current popup with either the wife's Highlander or my Sienna. But the Sienna has about 280,000 miles on it and will soon be replaced by a truck. I've been looking at Ford F250 or F350 diesel 4x4 trucks with SRW as I don't want to deal with a dually for my daily vehicle. So that will restrict what kind of 5th wheel or camper/trailer combo I can pull. But just looking around it seems like with a F250 with the camper package and heavy duty tow package I should be way able to put a lightweight popup camper on top like the aluminum 4 wheel model above and then still be able to tow something like a 20' fiberglass camper like perhaps this one: Oliver Legacy Elite II which would give me about 800-900 lbs dry weight for the slid-in camper and about 500 lbs dry tongue weight on the camper which should leave plenty of payload for passengers and gear and maybe also an auxiliary fuel tank.
Trying to think about maximum versatility here. The ability to squeeze into small campsites and or tow a boat when I want or tow other gear when not camping with the kids. Seems like a much more versatile approach to family camping than getting a big 5th wheel and being stuck with all or nothing approach to camping. I'm also at the point in my career when I may soon have a lot more time on my hands than my wife who is younger and still in full career mode so there is the possibility of doing some fishing and camping sans wife and hence, sans trailer.
Trying to think about maximum versatility here. The ability to squeeze into small campsites and or tow a boat when I want or tow other gear when not camping with the kids. Seems like a much more versatile approach to family camping than getting a big 5th wheel and being stuck with all or nothing approach to camping. I'm also at the point in my career when I may soon have a lot more time on my hands than my wife who is younger and still in full career mode so there is the possibility of doing some fishing and camping sans wife and hence, sans trailer.
