Travel trailer, mild off road?

[larryrmnp]

We are planning to tour mountains in the west with an 80 pulling a small light travel trailer. There will be a princess on board so the trailer needs to be hard shelled with a bath with shower. It needs to be used, as in cheaper than a new one and nothing fancy or SOTA.

The main plan is to ditch the trailer in campgrounds and go wheeling in the daytime, but there maybe occasions where it would be nice to be able to pull the trailer on a mild mountain back road. Back in the day, I made it though a lot of these roads in Colorado in 1958 English Ford with a 250cc Maico in the trunk, so I think it might be possible with the trailer if it was fairly rugged.

I'm guessing a fiberglass molded one might be stronger. Any recommendations or advice?

Thanks

 

[e9999]

I only have first hand experience with either a regular pop-up or utility trailers. My experience with the pop-up (mainstream Coleman etc type) was that it could handle a once in a while graded dirt road at slow speed but I am pretty sure that a steady diet of the same or higher speeds would lead quickly to full disintegration of various parts. And I do not know for sure that the few popups advertised as "more rugged" are actually that much more so. I suspect a regular travel trailer (not popup) would be worse. One problem is that I also suspect that people don't pack regular trailers for dirt roads and everything bounces around inside, spills, breaks etc. Just too tempting to think that a cabinet is like those at home. I would look for something else. I do not know about full fiberglass ones.

 

[cruiserpilot]

I've seen trailers of all types and sizes so far back in the mountains I thought they were brought in
on a helicopter sling. Basically, go slow, really slow. Make sure all the cabinets are tied shut. Everything
that might end up on the floor is put on the floor. But for simple day trips, I wouldn't give it a thought.
Except you have to know you will have maneuvering room along the way.

 

[NMBruce]

have you ever looked at Australias with their trailers off road, the stuff and where they go is something else
australia trailers off road videos

 

[larryrmnp]

Just back from the mountains. Thanks for the useful replys, we will go slow and tie things down. (The Aussie thing is cool but beyond our possibilities. )