Pop Up Camper - Should You Buy One?

today I'd like to talk about why you should own a pop-up camper there's a low initial cost you can get pop-up campers on the used Market anywhere from free just get it out of my driveway to spending over ten thousand dollars new and anywhere in between based on size and condition and what features you're actually looking for usually anywhere between fifteen hundred dollars and six thousand dollars will get you a really good used pop-up camper maintenance costs on public campers is going to be pretty low as well just because they're smaller RVs now granted you have one thing with pop-up campers that you don't have as many other RVs and that's canvas maintenance and if you don't keep up on canvas maintenance replacing of a canvas can be quite expensive yes you need to maintain the canvas and that is one hindrance of having a pop-up camper and that you have a foldable collapsible trailer you got to maintain the collapsible part things are smaller and therefore easier to maintain and much easier to do at home versus having to take it to a dealer or a technician to get service done the cool thing about pop-up campers is that because it's a hybrid tent trailer you get the views of a tent and no other RV are you going to have Windows as big as you are in a pop-up camper that view and that airflow is one of the main reasons that people stick with pop-up campers in their RV selection the insurance on pop-up campers is going to cost less because the units are worth less you're also going to get better fuel mileage on your tow vehicle because after they're collapsed they have very little wind resistance and usually don't exceed the height of the tow vehicle so overall concerning costs pop-up campers just have a very low barrier to entry there's not a whole lot of risk in getting into pop-up camping it's several thousand dollars and if you don't like it it's easily sold on the used Marketplace so popular campers also provide the basic necessities it's a walled shelter it's a real bed off the ground it has heat they have the potential of air conditioning there's battery power or Shore electricity you have indoor running water some of them have toilets some have indoor showers some have floor-to-ceiling cabinets that fold up after you open up the pop-up camper so all the amenities of a large travel trailer or fifth wheel the big RVs in a smaller package and again getting back to the windows the windows are huge and getting that Outdoors feeling inside when you're rving and you're out camping so because pop-up campers fold up they can often sleep a very large number of people relative to the size of the camper so you can get small motorcycle pop-ups they'd only sleep one person and could be towed by a motorcycle all the way up into double axle pop-ups that have a slide and can sleep eight potentially nine plus people depending if they're adults or children so there's a wide variety in there and based on the size it's a lot of people that you can sleep in one RV the next point I want to make in favor of pop-up campers is that they are easy to renovate they're easy to customize and they come in a ton of different floor plans so if you want a large couch a huge table on a slide and two King beds there's a pop-up camper for that if you just want small beds and a table just a place to put your gear out of the weather it's easily towable by a small SUV they make pop-ups for that too and being that there's a large number on the used Market at low cost of entry point financially it's a lot easier to renovate something that's several thousand dollars than going out and buying a forty thousand dollar fifth wheel and then I'm renovating it and if you want to dive deeper with other rvers about all things RV DIY projects Gear reviews travel locations anything RV come on and join us over at the RV gear and far group I'll make sure to put a link in the description box below we'd love to have you so one of the big things that people consider when getting pop-up campers is the tow vehicle and this is one of the reasons that we initially went with pop-up campers and that is they are light weight they can be anywhere from sub 1 000 pounds up to four or five thousand pounds with two axles and all the way in between the camper we got we've had two of them and they've both been under 2 000 pounds which means that we could pull them with the vehicle we had we could pull them with a minivan and there's a lot of pop-up campers out there that can be towed by crossovers SUVs minivans full-size Vans and halftime pickups you're never going to need a heavy duty truck to pull even the largest pop-up campers and so pop-ups are super accessible to people because they don't have to go out and buy a new tow vehicle they can use what they have and then find a pop-up camper that fits their family with the vehicle they already have ready to tow it the only thing I'd caution you is to make sure that you're checking your payload capacity on your tow vehicle and that number is going to be inside the sticker on the driver's side door you're going to add up all the People Gear pets everything inside the vehicle and then the tongue weight of the trailer and make sure you're not exceeding that payload capacity super important because people often exceed the payload capacity of their tow vehicle far before they hit the towing capacity of that vehicle so one of the last things I want to talk about concerning pop-ups is how easy they are to store oftentimes they fit inside of typical residential garages you can easily store them in your driveway and oftentimes you can move them around by hand or with a hand Dolly so by storing a pop-up camper in your driveway in your garage or in your backyard one you have the benefit of having it available to you you don't have to drive anywhere to go pick it up bring it back to store it you don't have any storage fees which therefore is another thing in favor of a low cost of ownership is that you don't have to pay to store it somewhere and it's accessible to you you can store things in there use it as a guest house if you need to every once in a while and because they're so small and portable it really is easy to store them so if you've owned a pop-up camper you know there's a ton of benefits to them and know the joys of getting out there and opening those huge windows and being out in nature but still having some of the amenities of a bigger RV let me know in the comments below what did I miss what other benefits are there to pop-up campers that we didn't cover today so that's all I got for you today guys again I'm Joshua we'll see you on the next one take care and pay forward foreign [Music]

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Length: 5min 52sec (352 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 19 2023