Once my wife and I get settled after we move to Oregon we are going to buy a small camper.
I looked at tent trailers and at A frame type and both came up lacking to me.
The tent trailers had lots of room in them but high maintenance, zero insulation, prone to leaks in the corners that leads to rot, depending on what model could be challenging for one person to set up quickly.
The A frame (Aliner) type were much better, has some insulation, hard sides, decent room, very easy to set up, one person can set it up and be sleeping in bed between 30 seconds to 1 minute. Still fairly high maintenance, prone to leaks and rot, somewhat suspect in high winds.
These teardrop type trailers looked like our best option though.
Very solid, totally weather proof, nicely insulated, virtually no maintenance, high resale value, AC and heater, nice accessories like awnings and solar panels.
Total weight is between 1500-1700lbs with a 180# tongue weight and they have hydraulic surge brakes.
My old boat I used to tow with a much smaller and less HP vehicle than my 4Runner had surge brakes and it actually stopped faster with the boat in tow than it did without, once those trailer brakes kicked in I could feel the trailer pulling the truck backwards.
So would be easy to tow.
- T@B Camper Trailers
The only other camper that looked nice, was built well, all aluminum no rot, well insulated etc were the "Camplite" trailers though on average for a used one they were a few $1000 higher in cost.
Camplite Ultra Lightweight All Aluminum Travel Trailers | Livin' Lite RV
