A7B2FX4

Half the fun is finding the right TT. You've got a challenge using a F150 but certainly doable. The hard part in the mid price range is getting what you need for boondocking in a lightweight TT. I'd look for ground clearance first. Bigger tires help too. Axles rated with a big weight safety factor. Heated and enclosed tanks and valves and high R value insulation all around. Thermopane windows a big plus. If you're planning on dirt road trips go with quality as cheap will self destruct in no time.
Some people think everyone maxes out their TT GVW with what they take along. If your not that type you can buy better. Learn what the TT payload can be.

smokeywren

You need GVWR less than 4,000 pounds and max hitch weight of less than 600 pounds. There a few available. Small but "decent" quality. Skyline makes 8 different floor plans with GVWR of 3,850 pounds. And two of those have a slide. Download the Nomad brochure and look at the TTs 7' wide.
http://skylinerv.com/brochures/616%2...re%20Nomad.pdf

Yes, even with a slide, those are small. But lightweight as you requested.

Move up a notch to my 8' wide, 19' 6" box (21'10" total length including the hitch) Nomad Joey 196 and weight goes up in a hurry. Mine has GVWR of 5,600 pounds and actual wet and loaded hitch weight of around 600 pounds. But it has no slide, and is smaller than most folks would consider adequate. But it's perfect for two old folks and a Border Collie.







Note that ours has the walk-around bed so DW can make it up without crawling around on the bed. And it has a big closet suitable for longer RV trips. Those are definite requirements for our TT.


One possibility for you is the Scamp 19' 5er. No slide, and with single 3,500# trailer axle the GVWR is about 4,200. Tandem axles not offered. Max pin weight would be around 700 pounds. If you don't have payload capacity for 700 pounds of hitch weight, then ignore any 5er and stick to smaller TTs or hybreds.
http://www.scamptrailers.com/showroo...-trailers.html

The Scamp deluxe has options that make it equal to my Joey = AC, heater, microwave, toilet and hot-water shower, microwave, TV etc.

The smaller Scamp 16' TTs are not suitable for me because they do not include provisions for a normal mattress in a bedroom. But with a fully-optioned Scamp TT Deluxe, that should be fine for a younger couple that, as my Dad used to say, can sleep hanging from a coathook.

But you don't really have to have a normal heavy TT. A compromise is a Roo 21' hybred, with GVWR less than 5,000 pounds. http://www.forestriverinc.com/Hybrid...oorplanid=4493

Don't dismiss a hybred off hand. We camped with a small tent camper with fold-out beds all the time my two kids were growing up, and camped from Maine to Disneyland, Everglades to Seattle, and everywhere in between. Fond memories.

smartzaps

Thanks so much! I may be wrong but I feel a hybrid trailer would not fair as well in a little bit colder climate. A good chunk of the usage would be tailgatting college football games in happy valley where it can hit the upper 3
0s at night in November

smokeywren

If you plan to be boondocking without being able to plug the trailer in to 120 volt power, then all you need is a fold-up tent trailer or hybrid trailer that has a propane furnace, plus a Honda EU2000i generator. The furnace will keep it toasty inside the trailer if you don't leave doors and windows open to admit the cold air. The canvas fabric around the fold-out bed(s) won't allow much cold air into the trailer. The EU2000i (inverter generator) is quite enough it won't bother anyone else, and it will produce plenty of juice to maintain the RV battery at full power so it can fire up your furnace and run the furnace fan all night. It produces up to a constant 1,600 watts, and up to 2,000 surge watts for starting an electric motor. I've had one for years, and wouldn't want to be without it.
http://www.wisesales.com/eu2000ia-honda-generator.html

I haven't checked the specs on my furnace, but the EU1000i generator may be enough to maintain the RV battery at full charge while it runs the furnace fan all night. It produces up to a constant 900 watts and a surge up to 1,000 watts to start an electric motor.
http://www.wisesales.com/eu1000ia-honda-generator.html

Yamaha makes a comparable quiet inverter generators. But other brands and types of generators are much too noisy to run near a tailgate party.

Just be sure you have the generator full of gas when you get to the stadium, with maybe a gallon or so in a gas can for later use if you stay more than 8 hours.


For summertime boondocking, I need my 5,000-watt generator to run the AC. But in wintertime when all I run overnight is the furnace fan, my EU2000i does just fine.

acadianbob

A little on the bigger side . . . look at a Surveyor 264 by Forest River.