Nash 22H, Pros and Cons

We've had ours for 13 years and love it. They are engineered and built right. Our daughter and her family have had one for two years with no complaints. They are about as good a value as you can get in an RV. Good luck. And you might need luck to get one back east. We are about 5 hours away from the Northwoods factory where they are made.

I have a 98 Nash 22H. One of the best built trailers you can buy for under $50K if you ask me. Very high quality, very well put together. This is a great floorplan for 2 people, in my opinion. We have 4 now and its too tight to be comfortable on longer trips. The huge rear bathroom is a plus. There is enough room in the front bedroom to put an RV queen if you want. I'm tall, so I bought a memory foam mattress in a true queen and just notched out a corner for the wardrobe.

Nash - Arctic Fox are very nice rigs - but they tend to be on the heavy side. I really liked my Arctic Fox but traded to a lighter weight Lance with a slide

spoon059 wrote:
I have a 98 Nash 22H. One of the best built trailers you can buy for under $50K if you ask me. Very high quality, very well put together. This is a great floorplan for 2 people, in my opinion. We have 4 now and its too tight to be comfortable on longer trips. The huge rear bathroom is a plus. There is enough room in the front bedroom to put an RV queen if you want. I'm tall, so I bought a memory foam mattress in a true queen and just notched out a corner for the wardrobe.

We get occasional company which makes it hard to make breakfast in the morning when there is a late riser on the dinette bed. About what size are the couch and dinette when they are converted to beds? The Nash brochure doesn't give dimensions.

I've only looked and read about them online, but if I really needed a 4 season trailer, they would be on my short list. As mentioned, the wood & 4 season construction make them on the heavier side, so it boils down to what size trailer do you want depending on what you plan to use for a tow vehicle. The closest floorplan to our 2201DS is in the Arctic Fox line and would add over a thousand lbs. to the dry weight. If money were no problem, I'd seriously think about a 3/4 ton truck and a nice Arctic Fox trailer....and if I were a fan of winter camping, I'd definitely look at the Nash or Arctic Fox.

You will see few negatives about Arctic Fox/Nash products and I think they are a good choice as long as you have the necessary tow vehicle and are happy with the floorpland and features you choose.

My understanding is that the Nash products are still made with wood walls; the Arctic Fox trailers are built with aluminum walls if that is important to you. Northwood Mfg. has a very nice webpage with lots of good information.

rrupert wrote:
We get occasional company which makes it hard to make breakfast in the morning when there is a late riser on the dinette bed. About what size are the couch and dinette when they are converted to beds? The Nash brochure doesn't give dimensions.

The couch is about 67" long and 38 or 39" wide. The dinette is 72" long and 40" wide. You can probably fit 2 kids per bed... the adults better be really small or really close... maybe both!

We had a Nash 24-5er for almost 10 years and really liked it. It held up to everywhere we took it and we most often camp in farmer's fields.

The only reason we traded was my arthritis made a bedroom we could stand up in an imperative.

Even with single pane windows, we were as snug as a bug through many kinds of weather.

We researched quite a bit and finally purchased Dec 2012 at Kelly's in West Milton, PA (see sig). We are very happy with our Nash after two seasons! Someone mentioned weight, they are a bit heavier, but Nash changed it's build in 2012, so the Nash's after our year are different, and I think they are lighter.

We have an AF 25Y but we have friends online with Nash trailers as well. Very few complaints. It sounds like the 17 and 18's may be on their way out due to low orders on the smaller trailers. The 22H may be the new smallest trailer soon :(