I camped in my popup 2 years ago in January. It was 16 overnight with about an inch or 2 of snow on the ground with the roads dry. Loved it. The warmest I camped in was July last year at Caledonia. We had an apartment AC in the pup and was comfortable overnight. During the day it was mid eighties and the AC barely got it to 78 for my son to sleep. I would probably stay home if I was in the pup again unless there was a water attraction to cool of during the day....which there was on this trip. Now I have the Class C I will camp in July and August since I have the AC to cool off in.
Matt O 2006 Skyline Nomad 27' travel trailer. Previously owned 1986 Coleman Columbia / 1992 Coleman Senecca / 1989 Born Free Class C RV.
When we first got into tenting we were in Wy. and went to a youth campout. We were new to it and bought the tent, sleeping bags and such. We didn't know about tent heaters. It was comfortable during the day but during the night it snowed and we thought we were gonna freeze...actually it was freezing. I would never do that again. We learned right quick to get a tent heater. We camped many more times since then in our tent.
We recently bought a ntu pup and camped with colder temps and used the heated mattress pad and the roof heat at times. The only bad thing is you tend to stay tensed which creates sore muscles.
Teen temps at night (just a few hours) and boy was the furnace cranking, as was the electric heater and the heated mattress pads.
Have camped in temps of 100 degrees - hard for the AC to keep up, so sprayed pup with hose water (cooler than the air temp) and it dropped the temps about 5 degrees or more and the AC did better.
I am miserable in excessive heat.
This past weekend I camped with some friends. We both have pups. Wind was really blowing Friday night. Temps were supposed to be 26 with windchill of 16. We thought no worries since we both have heat, but about 11:30 pm the power went out so it got very chilly!!! Power stayed out until about 9:30 Saturday morning. We all just threw on an extra blanket made it through. Hottest temps would have to be around 100 in the summer. I don't enjoy camping when it is that hot because in GA because the humidity is horrible!!!
I was much younger and in Boy Scouts, I was living in Iowa and seem to remember one trip where we packed in somewhere. Not only did we get about 6-8" of snow (Surprise!), I recall it getting down into the low 20's. The goal may have been to get the polar bear badge, so the low temps may have been intentional.
In recent years since we started off with campers (pup, pup, HTT, now TT), the lowest we've camped in was 26 degrees a couple of years ago at the season opener at French Creek (2009 I think, maybe 2010). The highest was 100 degrees, with DC area humidity included, at Westmoreland State Park in VA in 2010. To add insult to injury, the 30A breaker on the power pole was malfunctioning. We had already moved twice for that exact same reason when the breakers on those sites wouldn't stay on at all after we plugged in. After the first one, I did get smart and checked them before beginning setup. The breaker on this site stayed on just long enough for us to get set up. Fortunately, the pup was parked in just the right location that we were able to run the A/C cord through the canvas and plug it into the 20A circuit, and we just used the battery for the fridge and lights for the two nights.
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I camped in my popup 2 years ago in January. It was 16 overnight with about an inch or 2 of snow on the ground with the roads dry. Loved it. The warmest I camped in was July last year at Caledonia. We had an apartment AC in the pup and was comfortable overnight. During the day it was mid eighties and the AC barely got it to 78 for my son to sleep. I would probably stay home if I was in the pup again unless there was a water attraction to cool of during the day....which there was on this trip. Now I have the Class C I will camp in July and August since I have the AC to cool off in.
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10 Fahrenheit to low one-hundreds Fahrenheit. (Neither of the extremes was very comfortable.)
Just realized that the 10 Fahrenheit was the daytime HIGH (January, 1977 backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail); the lows were near zero.
The high 90's -- low 100's were tenting and popuping in Maryland and Virginia.
We camp a lot during winter in Korea. 5 degrees F is the lowest I saw over the years, but I'm sure it has been colder while we were sleeping.
It's wonderful. No bugs, playing in the snow. Skiing. Really enjoy campfires.
Yes, we spend most of our time, if not all, outside.
We're nuts... ;D
This is our recent New Year's trip. It wasn't that cold.
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We took our ntu pup for a one nighter at a local CG that was having Frotiers Days going on. It was PERFECT weather for camping. Warm enough to get hot while setting up camp and cold enough in the evening to sit around the fire. We did run the air for a while and later did have to wear our jackets at the campfire. It was great. So much better than our last time which had us freezing in the windy cold. Can't wait to do that again. One night beats no nights..:)
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