das wrote:
Hoping to upgrade our current 28'9" TT to something larger with more room. We are leaning toward the Keystone Premier 34BHPR that is 37' long. I know that many manufacturers make TT's longer but looking for opinions from others that camp with longer TT's to see if there are other disadvantages to them other than towing a longer and heavier trailer. Do you ever have troube fitting into camping spots?
Do you max out camping spots where you go now?
Do those campgrounds not have longer spots?
An 18 foot trailer will fit where a 22 footer will not. Any length trailer is going to have some places it cannot go.
Only you can tell if your camping style would be limited by a longer trailer.
Handling and moving a 37' trailer isn't that much different from a 30' trailer - at least it wasn't for me when I made a similar change over a year ago. I do find places where I can't take the bigger trailer that I know I could have taken the smaller one. But it has never been a 'problem' just watching carefully.
One potential issue is the swing of the rear end of the longer trailer. My old trailer had about 8-10 ft between the back axle and the rear bumper. This one has almost 17 ft. That makes the rear bumper kick out much farther to the outside of a turn, especially in a tight campground, than the old one did.
I've never hit anything on the inside of a turn, but I do have some small scratches and dents from the outside of turns with this TT.
Yes, some places have a size limit. The only place I've ever heard of which will go out and measure trailers in the CG is the NP mentioned above.
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