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I'm getting the impression some of you camp all winter long. What do you do about pipes and tanks freezing while camping? Do you just carry jugs of water with you?

Jugs of water and a big fire

Some of us do, most of us don't.

Kim

When we lived in California we camped all year. But here we don't.

I used to winterize by adding a blanket but that's much different now.....

We are planning a trip Thanksgiving weekend which if it's like last year will be cold! Once we get home we winterwize our camper and keep it put up till around March we will open it back up, this year camping in March wasn't cold it was wet but not cold but you know camping all summer long has been wetter than usual so oh well, can handle the wet but not the cold!!

Well I am 1 that pulls my camper to a park and cooks and watches snow fall in the winter. Up to this point I have not winterized my campers here in TN. I DO keep a heater going inside, of the hybrid, and a 100 watt light bulb going in the popup. I made it all year last year wwith that settup, but my extention cord unbeknownst to me was shut off just prior to the winterfest camp. My water filter frozr and of course broke, with no shut off, so I had to jug in my water for that camput. I plan on keeping active again this winter as well. One thing for sure you don't have to fight for primo camp sites. If ya like solitude and quiet, this is the time to camp.

Mrs NissanTech wrote:We are planning a trip Thanksgiving weekend which if it's like last year will be cold! Once we get home we winterwize our camper and keep it put up till around March we will open it back up, this year camping in March wasn't cold it was wet but not cold but you know camping all summer long has been wetter than usual so oh well, can handle the wet but not the cold!!

Cold and wet is what gets my husband and why we don't camp in the winter. Perhaps when we have others to camp with he wont get so bored. When the weather is bad I don't care. It gives me time to lay around and read or watch TV or DVDs in the TT. He gets antsy. It has been a wet year. We went upstate NY (cooperstown/Oneonta) in June for over a week. It was cold and drizzly. The weekend we spent in PA was warm but drizzly part of the time.

oysterpot wrote:Well I am 1 that pulls my camper to a park and cooks and watches snow fall in the winter. Up to this point I have not winterized my campers here in TN. I DO keep a heater going inside, of the hybrid, and a 100 watt light bulb going in the popup. I made it all year last year wwith that settup, but my extention cord unbeknownst to me was shut off just prior to the winterfest camp. My water filter frozr and of course broke, with no shut off, so I had to jug in my water for that camput. I plan on keeping active again this winter as well. One thing for sure you don't have to fight for primo camp sites. If ya like solitude and quiet, this is the time to camp.

Out here by the lake it gets cold enough to where the cost of keeping our Zinger heated would be out of the question. We have to winterize it. But I'd leave it winterized and camp with jugs of water and a coffee-can toilet (no space for a port-a-potty). Some of my best memories of camping was camping in the snow upstate NY when I lived there. We'd use a tarp to cook and hang out under. Several couples went making camping more fun. We'd come back from a nice hike to hot coffee, tea or coco. Only rain kept us from camping.

Mrs NissanTech wrote:We are planning a trip Thanksgiving weekend which if it's like last year will be cold! Once we get home we winterwize our camper and keep it put up till around March we will open it back up, this year camping in March wasn't cold it was wet but not cold but you know camping all summer long has been wetter than usual so oh well, can handle the wet but not the cold!!

I couldn't get the DH rolling until April. I'm glad we're heading south for Thanksgiving. Although we have a propane furnace, we use the electric at the CGs to heat our TT. Those cheap little electric heaters from Wally World work great and the electic is already paid for with the camp fee. Of course they wont keep the pipes and tanks from freezing like the furnace would.