I used to keep my popup on gravel behind my shed but like Joe said, I don't want to be snowed in when I want to camp in January. It is currently on the grass on the side of my driveway.
Big Dawg, you have to explain your whole cave thing. I can just picture the add for your house if it was for sale....3 bedroom 2 bath cape cod near with a detached cave :baseballhat:
Matt O 2006 Skyline Nomad 27' travel trailer. Previously owned 1986 Coleman Columbia / 1992 Coleman Senecca / 1989 Born Free Class C RV.
lol. yeah and I am a super hero in my spare time as well. I guess it is not really a cave but a mine but for some reason everyone calls it a cave. It is an old limestone mining cave (if I am not mistaking it is where the movie "The Living Dead" was filmed). It was converted into a storage center. It has 2.5 million sq/ft of storage. This place is huge and there are thousands of boats and campers in there for the winter. Here is the link to it: http://www.gatewaycc.com/
It was $170 for 5 months. It is dry, no sun, and no winterizing.
There is a campground next to it that has atv trails and you can take a guided atv tour of an unsed part of the mine. The only lights are the ones from your quads.
Ours is stored where it always is, on the side of our house, behind the fence, just past the the top of our driveway with covers over the wheels and the camper. I really don't do anything different than I do during the summer when it's not in use, except for winterizing it.
To avoid making ruts, I did make two wheel paths for it using a double, overlapping layer of 16" paver stones for extra stability and to avoid cracking the pavers since I didn't do a proper base for it. You can see the initial attempt at that in my intro post a few days back. At that time it was just two pads for the wheels to park on and apparently it was just before I extended them into paths from the asphalt. It will suffice until we can redo the driveway and extend it into the back yard to make a parking area for it, as well as car work. I really wish I had a garage.
Back when we had the monster snows in Jan & Feb 2010, I did make sure to pull the snow away from the sides, and keep it off of the roof. I think we wound up with 70" for the entire season, with two ~20" storms back to back which is nearly unheard of for the DC area. I don't recall seeing that much snow since we left Iowa back in the mid-80s.
Of the three campers I have owned all have stayed in the driveway. Living in Oklahoma we only get the occasional super cold winters so we haven't had a problem "yet". I usually pull the awning off and take the battery out just to keep them out of the elements, other than that we are ready to go in about 30 to 45 minutes!!!
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