Coldest you have camped with no heated tanks.

We are use to temps in the 20s at night all but mid summer at 10,000 ft. We are fine as long as it warms up the next day.

Hi John,

I'd love for you to start a thread on wind power, so you could share the details of your system.

John Burke wrote:
Keep them charged with a 60 watt solar charger and a 400 watt wind generator.

We just got back from Utah where we had five nights of temperatures in the nine or ten degree range every night, with highs in the high 30s. No major problems. One night, the line to our cold water faucet froze, and it thawed in a few hours. We did have hookups. We don't have heated tanks, but the trailer is very well insulated. We did not use the heater at night -- it was in the low to mid 20s every morning when we woke up. (Lots of blankets!)

I think that if the daytime highs had been below freezing, we would have had serious trouble.

Hi,

The tanks are not usually an issue. The water lines from them are much more susceptible to freezing.

Waste tanks can be protected with windshield washer antifreeze.

Probably a so called "3 seasons" RV can be used down to day time highs of 28 f. Below that freeze ups become a distinct possibility.

crabbin cabin wrote:
18 F in Williams AZ one Feb. - on the way to admire snow in the Canyon.

Oops - just reviewed our old logs -- 12 F in Vermont in Oct.!! (1993)

We've been down to around 15F this fall.

Worst was -5F a few years back.

This has been on sewer sites and we just leave the tank valves open but have to wait until it warms up before we can close them and move on.

-26 degree's F. I use my old camper for pheasant hunting until the end of the season, first weekend of January, here in North Dakota. I sleep in it about 24-25 nights during the season and use 3 30lb cylinders.
I do not wet the system up, I use the shower all the time by heating water in 5 gal cans with a battery and propane powered water heater. I heat the water use the shower and let grey water run on the ground. Use the shower every night I am there. The fridge is propane powered and everything else is 12 volt, have replaced some of the lights with LED,s.
I have 4 deep cycle battery's to power it all. Keep them charged with a 60 watt solar charger and a 400 watt wind generator. If no wind or sun, or a high demand for power I start my 1000 watt gen.

I was in my camper, and it got down to about 28F one night, I was camped near Sherman Pass, just west of highway 95 and Inyokern CA. I did not expect any cold weather in April, but was around 7,600' elevation. (I went up the road looking for a campground and did not plan on being at such a high elevation, but it was a great place).

Anyway my fresh water drain valve froze, broke, and let all the water out along the highway the next day. It was a cheap plastic drain hooked up to 3/8" plastic tubing and the bottom of the tank. I did not have a furnace, grey or black tanks in that camper.

My newer camper had enclosed black tank, but no grey tank. I did not camp in freezing weather in it. By the time I got my class A Bounder, it had enclosed and furnace heated tanks, so camping at 19F was not eventful!

Have fun camping!

Fred.

We lived in our camper in 2009 for 2 months before we moved from Alaska. The first few nights it was about 10 degrees. We didn't have heated tanks but the underbelly was enclosed.

18 F in Williams AZ one Feb. - on the way to admire snow in the Canyon.