khr
Active member
Hello Everyone! My wife and I have tent camped for 27 years. We started when our kids were small and have really enjoyed camping. We just bought our first camper. It is a 2011 19' Shadow Cruizer tongue pull trailer. I will be pulling it with a 2013 F150 3.7 liter engine with the trailer/towing package. Bought it in Farmers Branch, TX and pulled it back to NW Oklahoma without any problems (except for the poor gas mileage!). I have also purchased a 4000 watt (peak) generator from Cabela's.
We have typically tent camped at or above the 9500' level in south central Colorado and love it. We like it because it gets us away from a lot of the casual campers and gets us up into the "wildlife zone" and access to near and above tree line hiking. We would like to continue camping in those same areas now that we have a trailer.
We have always seen and been somewhat jealous of those we saw that didn't park their trailers/RV's in campgrounds, but we're just parked out in the forest wherever they wanted. That is very appealing to us from the privacy aspect. I would be interested in hearing from anyone that does that kind of camping. Are there forest service rules concerning fires, gray water, etc????
Any advice (on any topic) you can give to first timers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Very excited about getting back out into the woods with a camper and not a tent - sleeping on a real mattress instead of on an air mattress on the ground!!!
Ken
We have typically tent camped at or above the 9500' level in south central Colorado and love it. We like it because it gets us away from a lot of the casual campers and gets us up into the "wildlife zone" and access to near and above tree line hiking. We would like to continue camping in those same areas now that we have a trailer.
We have always seen and been somewhat jealous of those we saw that didn't park their trailers/RV's in campgrounds, but we're just parked out in the forest wherever they wanted. That is very appealing to us from the privacy aspect. I would be interested in hearing from anyone that does that kind of camping. Are there forest service rules concerning fires, gray water, etc????
Any advice (on any topic) you can give to first timers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Very excited about getting back out into the woods with a camper and not a tent - sleeping on a real mattress instead of on an air mattress on the ground!!!
Ken