Question Looking for Feedback on These Travel Trailers

[Bob K4TAX]

Hello All,
I am looking at purchasing my first travel trailer, and the candidates include:
- Coachmen Apex Nano 213RDS
- Forest River Flagstaff Micro-Lite 22FBS
- Forest River Ibex 20BHS
- Forest River Rockwood Mini-Lite 2205S (virtually identical to the Flagstaff 22FBS)
- Forest River Surveyor Legend 202RBLE
- Lance Travel Trailer 1995
- Keystone Hideout 202RD
- Keystone Premier 19FBPR

If any of you have one if these units, please let me know what you think about it - pros, cons, any helpful comments would be appreciated.

Also, I would like to know if these units have a native 30A or 50A shore power connection.

Thanks in advance!

Altazi

We have a Forest River Wildwood XL, 2016 model, being a 253 RLXL. From experience, I'd say most of the XL's or MicroLite units are more suitable for only on-road travel and campground usage. For off-road usage, I don't think they are adequately built structurally. To get the "lite" feature I view some structural materials and methods that must be omitted.

Most trailers have 30A provisions unless one gets to the larger units having dual AC units and other power-demanding options that do require 50A service.

As to the length of the units, different companies have ways of presenting theirs as larger. Ours is a 253, whatever that means, but the physical measurements from bumper to ball hitch is 30' 6". So there is about 3 ft upfront plus 1 ft in the rear, not including the spare tire mounting that is "outside of the box. So is it a 25', or a 27', or a 30'? It's all of those.

Make a list of; (a) must have, (b) would like, (c) don't want/need. Also, consider the tow vehicle in terms of the towing ability in weight. Be conservative on the numbers and don't push to near max. You will struggle going uphill and then wonder how you'll get it stopped going downhill. That's a nail-biter!