About this forum

Pop-Up Camper Forum opened in November 2025 for people who camp in something that folds down: soft-wall pop-ups, hard-side high walls and A-frames. The big RV boards treat folders like an afterthought, and the pop-up subforum on all of them is three years out of date.

Folding campers here means the Forest River Rockwood and Flagstaff, the Jayco Jay Sport and Jay Series, the Coachmen Clipper, the Aliner and other A-frames, the Opus and the older Coleman and Fleetwood boxes people are still dragging to the lake. A 1,800 pound A-frame and a 3,600 pound high wall get the same patient answers, because the people asking are usually towing with a minivan or a mid-size SUV and the margin for a wrong answer is thin.

It is run by Marcy E., who posts as mod_marcy_e. Marcy and her husband hosted at a state park campground in the Bighorn country west of Cody, Wyoming for eleven summers, checking people in and then walking over an hour later to help them crank a camper up that they had never set up before. She has watched more first setups go sideways than anyone should have to, and this board is basically that, written down. She camps in a 2015 Jayco Jay Series she pulls with an old Ram, and she reads the mailbox herself, slower in July when the campground is full.

What it costs

The server runs about ten dollars a month and the domain was a year up front. Marcy covers both. No ads sit on any page, no link here pays a commission, and nobody has paid for a thread or for a spot in one. If that ever changes it gets written here first.

House rules

• Camper and tow vehicle in your first line. A Highlander pulling a dry A-frame and a half-ton pulling a loaded high wall are not the same question and the answer changes.
• Weigh before you believe the brochure. Dry weight on the sticker is the camper with nothing in it, no battery, no propane, no water, no gear. The number that matters is on the yellow federal label on the tongue side.
• Say what you paid. Buying notes without the figures get a reply from a mod asking for them, and most people fill them in.
• No selling campers in threads. There is no classifieds board here on purpose. Linking a public listing to make a point about price is fine.
• If you work for a dealer, a lender, an auction or a hauling outfit, say so in the post where it comes up. People posting as plain owners when they are not get removed.
• Be decent. The canvas people and the A-frame people have been arguing since before this board existed and neither side is going to win.
• Mods move a note to the right board and leave a line where it used to be. Threads get locked rarely and with the reason written in them.
• Accounts are by email request until the spam calms down.

What this is not

Not a dealer, not a broker, not a repair shop and not the owner's manual. When somebody hands you a torque number for a lift bracket or a tongue weight figure, check it against your own camper and your own tow vehicle door sticker before you trust a bridge to it.