Travel Trailers for large families
We are looking to purchase our first travel trailer. We've been tent campers our entire lives, but we now have 6 kids and are looking to make camping a bit easier for us. We would like a travel traile...
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As the youngest of 10, we had a 28ft TT towed by a full size van. Give consideration to a tent or possibly have the seats in the van set up so some of the kids can sleep in the van. Depending on age, kids can sleep in areas I would never consider as an adult.
If you want them all sleeping in the trailer, expect to do a lot of set up and tear down of the beds to make it livable during the day as you will likely need to convert the couch and dinette every day.
Probably OK on payload but check it. 8 people with an average of 150lb is 1200lb of people, plus hitch weight plus anything else in the van (not sure if bench seats are counted in the door panel payload. Also watch the trailer payload closely, a lot of people can translate to a lot of payload.
I'm not familiar with the Nissan model but full size rear wheel drive vans are perfectly fine for towing. If you stay in the ratings, no reason to expect the transmission to blow up and 375hp is way more than my Dad's vans ever had back in the 70-80's.
If you want them all sleeping in the trailer, expect to do a lot of set up and tear down of the beds to make it livable during the day as you will likely need to convert the couch and dinette every day.
Probably OK on payload but check it. 8 people with an average of 150lb is 1200lb of people, plus hitch weight plus anything else in the van (not sure if bench seats are counted in the door panel payload. Also watch the trailer payload closely, a lot of people can translate to a lot of payload.
I'm not familiar with the Nissan model but full size rear wheel drive vans are perfectly fine for towing. If you stay in the ratings, no reason to expect the transmission to blow up and 375hp is way more than my Dad's vans ever had back in the 70-80's.
