Winter Camping

Wellesley Island state park up near the Canadian border is open all year with elec.
It is at the North end of 81.
I am a summer resident of the Thousand Islands area and have made the trip to Manorville, NY for years.

495 Throgs neck GWB to 80W to 380 to 81 nice roads toll free after GWB except for $1.00 at the Delaware water gap and the toll over the thousand Island bridge.
Your New York fishing license means you can ice fish the St. Lawrence.

Towns nearby include Clayton, Alexandria Bay and of course 25 miles away is Watertown, NY

Have an enhanced drivers license or passport then Canada is 10 minutes away.
Towns to explore there include Gananoque (1/2 HR along the river) and Kingston about 1 hr home of the international Hockey hall of fame. There is a casino in Canada near Gan as well. Ottawa is about 1.5 hours away

Think "dry" camping. NO water will be available, system should be winterized unless one plans on spending a LOT of $$ of ele and gas for keeping the thing up to temp... and then when one is dragging it from place to place????

Setting up a secondary Tank with RV anti freeze for the toilet or get a portable pooper.
We keep a couple of gallons of drinking water in the cooler in attempts to keep it and other foods from freezing.
Placing the batteries INSIDE the heated area with venting to the outside is huge for keeping our T-105 lasting longer. Built a compartment that is uninsulated to the living space against an exterior wall that is insulated. A piece of rubber inner tube was used as a 1 wayish valve(like on the top of a snorkel) and was zip tied to the vent, air flows out ward better than inwards.

Make sure you have something to place under the pads of anything conductive touching the ground, it will melt into ice. leveling/ stabilizing jacks, tung jack, metal stairs, etc... damn near ripped the stabilizer feet off on an RV camping Whistler/ Blackholm parking lots. Ended up pulling cotter pins, raising hydraulics, driving off feet/pads, then using a hammer and tire iron to remove all 4 from under inches of ice.

IF you aren't using shore power to keep the heat up, using a generator gets old.... bulking up batteries and solar is great but one would have to almost double up # of batts for zero temps as they don't put out well in the cold.

If your bed is against an exterior wall or on tire wells adding a layer of insulation between the mattress and the "exterior" portion will cut down on the amount of moisture the mattress picks up.

Using some of the plastic window kits from a hardware store really helps the R value on windows. We actually use the foil faced bubble wrap for both black out conditions and heat retainment. Plugging up all vents but the one that is kept cracked helps a ton too, Reefer and stove vents suck a lot of heat, IF not using them block them up for the season, keep the refer heat for sure, not the exhaust gas :)

***BEST thing purchased for winter camping...12V heated mattress cover, get it up to temp 15-20 min prior to getting into bed (#5/6 out of 10) then as one gets into the sack turn down (#1or2 out of 10)They don't draw enough to worry about for the heat they give.
My wife liked it so much camping we now have one on the bed at home.****

There are a few really good tricks in the truck camper side of the house.

Sorry for writing a book

Repo

We live in the great Northwest and camp through November and start up again after December. Some of our best memories take place during the off season. Trailering is a tad tricky with front wheel drive. Good times

We have camped in the snow in the Sierra:



But it was not that cold, really -- only about 20 degrees at night. It was colder when we were in Yellowstone -- it got down to 15 degrees outside, and below 30 in the trailer -- the cord on the coffeemaker froze -- this is not a trick shot:



And both of those shots were taken in our poorly insulated first trailer. Our current Fun Finder is a lot better for winter camping.

If you are looking for a winter camping site, make sure that they will plow the road if it snows while you are camping -- otherwise, it can be tricky getting out. Please don't ask me how I learned this -- we escaped, but just barely, when we had a surprise storm.

What kind of a trailer are you getting?