Newbie need help with purchase decision

DutchmenSport wrote:
We were fortunate with our pop-up. I could push it into our garage, turn it slightly and then raise the top about 2 feet before the roof hit the garage door opener. I could then pull the bunk ends out, and let the tent material hang and dry. If it was still raining outside at home, sometimes it still took several days to completely dry. You don't want to close a camper up with wet fabric and keep it that way. Mold will form.

So at home, you really need the space to open the bunk ends all the way too. If you don't have the extra room, you are best to go with a hard sided trailer that fits your parking spot.

Couldn't agree more. Whenever we weren't camping I always kept our popup in my heated workshop and if I had to I could always raise the roof a couple of feet to dry out the tenting, 'though it did take a couple of days. Obviously once we "upgraded" to a hybrid it had to live outside on the driveway ... coupler to bumper it was only about 23' long and because it had only one hybrid bunk at the front (and none at the rear) it's overall length only extended by another foot or so when the bunk had to be deployed in order to dry out the tenting. However, if it had been a more conventional hybrid with beds at both ends I would have had to park it just that much further away from the garage to allow sufficient clearance for the rear bed to be lowered and at that point it wouldn't have been any different than parking a travel trailer measuring 27' coupler to bumper. Guess what? ... after 2 yrs of fooling around with the hybrid that's what we really upgraded to - our KZ Spree triple bunk bed travel trailer that measured 26' 9" coupler to bumper and had NO tenting. :B Couldn't pay me to ever own another hybrid. :(