fresh board, and the gate is narrow on purpose: if it folds, cranks or pops up into a camper, come on in. anything with a slide room, a wet bath and a motorhome on the title belongs on one of the giant RV forums, and i will point you their way with a smile, not a grudge.
i split it into three. Pop-up & folding talk covers the camping part, parks and loops, the first freezing morning, bunk ends, the dog underfoot, which model suits your family. Canvas, lift systems & towing is the hands-dirty part, lift cranks and cables, reseal and patch jobs, putting it away for winter, tires, tongue weight, hitch ratings. Buying and auctions is for the receipts, what came out of your pocket and which yard the camper rolled off of.
why bother. eleven summers my husband and i ran the host site at a campground in the Bighorn foothills west of Cody. a family rolls in at four, and by five i am strolling over because dad has it half up, a fold of canvas jammed in a bunk hinge, and the little ones are melting down. i could un-jam that canvas in my sleep by now. the first-year mistakes repeat like clockwork, maybe half a dozen of them, and nobody ever put them in one tidy place.
the short list. put the camper and the tow vehicle on your opening line. weigh it on a real scale before you tell me what it weighs, because the yellow tongue label beats the brochure every time. money notes carry the dollar figures. trading campers happens off this site, not between two posts here, and that is a line i am holding. past that, play nice, the soft-wall crowd and the A-frame crowd have to share these three boards whether they like each other or not.
getting in is by email for now, until the bots lose interest. send a note naming the camper you own or the one you are chasing, with the county where it parks, and a login comes back your way. the fuller version of all this sits on the about page. marcy.