securing a travel trailer

Here is a link to a lock made by Reese at Walmart:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Reese-Towpower-Universal-Coupler-Lock/15125814

You can get a hitch lock that slides over the TT's tounge or a product from this page to secure your wheels.

Regardless of what you do, if someone really wants it, they just may be able to take it. This happens sometines as forum members have reported stolen TT's from driveways and storage lots. I have never heard of one being stolen from a camp ground.

Make sure you have all possibilities in mind while going over optons to insure it.

I think that ball lock and the ones that cover the lug nuts would be a fairly decent deterrent. at least they would slow down the theft and cause them to look elsewhere for an easier target.
bumpy

Take the tires and wheels off.

Too extreme? Boot one or more wheels.

Too extreme still? Coupler lock.

Pretty much covers it

Just get a ball lock. It's a ball that locks into your trailer coupler where your hitch ball goes. Quick and simple with a key.

Buy some new Goodyear Marathons. They won't get far with it.

Bruce

Solution:
- Make sure your insurance is up to date and appropriate.
- Set a chair out under the awning.
- Pop a cold one or two and just relax.
- Have the wife drive to the sites, since you shouldn't drink and drive.

Unless you stay in really sketchy campgrounds, no one is going to drive away with your trailer. The vast majority of stolen trailers are in backyards or storage yards where they have plenty of time to case the situation and it will be a long time before anyone notices it's gone.

If you want to feel like you've done something, close the latch and put a padlock thru it, so it's a hassle to get hooked up.

I would avoid: removing tires, boots on the tires, or other exotic solutions as they are likely to hook up and try to drive away without checking. The end result is more damage.

Not that I would ever bother but one great idea I heard of: Mount a large sign on the back. "If you can see this sign, this trailer has been stolen." Then mount a cover over the sign with a rope to strung under to the wheels.
- When you take off, you disconnect and secure the rope, so the cover stays on.
- When the thief takes off the rotating wheels pull the rope which pulls the cover off but not until they drive away.

We usually leave our little Fluffy at our site when we go out to see the sites. Never had a problem.

I think the OP is overly paranoid or lives in New York City! Unless your in a campground really close to a large city where unruly punks freequent the nearby water there is nothing to worry about. Now kids might steal your beer cooler or an unattended bicycle, but a whole RV? Not likely