For 2025, Phoenix Campers takes fully-featured hard side campers back to basics with their L2 Hard Side Special Edition. With a wet bath, full kitchen, north-south cabover, and lots of storage, this is Phoenix’s latest thinking in hard side custom design.
When most folks think of Phoenix Campers, they likely think about custom pop-up truck campers. This isn’t entirely inaccurate as nobody in the business has built more custom campers than Phoenix, and the great majority of what they build are pop-ups.
Add to that Phoenix’s history of building some of the most memorable pop-up truck campers ever and it’s hard not to think of Phoenix as a pop-up camper company. Their show-stopping flatbed Statement Camper and Bronco Bronco immediately come to mind, but there are many more examples in these electrons.
And yet, Phoenix has always offered custom hard side campers. Probably the most well-known example is the hard side Phoenix Camper ordered by Scott and Angela Woodhams for their trip to Central and South America. Not only was the Woodhams’ camper another custom tour de force for Phoenix, but it was also a fully demountable (with camper jacks) chassis mount. You don’t see that every day.
2025 Phoenix L2 Hard Side Special Edition
Above: Photos courtesy of Phoenix Campers, Ram 3500 for the photos provided by Johnson Auto Plaza
This brings us to the subject of Phoenix’s new hard side camper for 2025. The new Phoenix L2 Hard Side Special Edition represents Co-Founder Robby Rowe’s state-of-the-art thinking for a fully functional and compact slide-in truck camper. Robby has always been laser-focused on building campers with the maximum features in the minimum amount of space. His gift is actually pulling off this trick in a way that not only works, but is comfortable to be in and use.
The first version of the Phoenix L2 Hard Side Special Edition is a slide-in. As a custom company, Phoenix can build the Phoenix L2 Hard Side Special Edition as a short bed, long bed, and/or a flatbed. They will even tweak the floor length and width to fit your specific truck or requirement. That’s a big part of the customization that makes Phoenix unique in the marketplace.
Inside the camper, the first stand-out feature is the walled wet bath with shower and cassette toilet. The Phoenix L2 Hard Side Special Edition isn’t your ultra-basic Overland camper with a porta-potty. This camper offers the bathroom function and privacy of a fully featured truck camper in an envelope small enough and light enough for off-road duty.
The fully-featured kitchen is another stand out. With a microwave, combination sink and two-burner propane cooktop, and RecPro 4.4 cubic foot 12 volt DC refrigerator, you have everything you need.
Yes, you’re not looking at an oven or a 6 cubic foot refrigerator, but that’s how Robby was able to keep the size, weight, and cost of the 2025 Phoenix L2 Hard Side Special Edition in check.
As a hard side camper, you get additional upper cabinetry storage that’s usually not possible in a pop-up. You also get a rear closet with adjustable shelving. That’s definitely not on the pop-up menu and adds a ton of precious storage to the mix.
In the upper passenger rear corner, Robby has created a space for a window air conditioner. This is increasingly becoming a popular way to provide power-efficient air conditioning without getting into the roof mount AC units that fetch into the multi-thousand dollar range. Phoenix can option one of those models for you, but they went practical and affordable for the Phoenix L2 Hard Side Special Edition.
Finally, the north-south cabover features full-length storage hampers on both sides, two LED reading lights, and a ceiling-mounted fan and vent.
The Special Edition Explained
To get some insight into exactly what the 2025 Phoenix L2 Hard Side Special Edition includes, we contacted Robby Rowe. Here’s how he explained the camper:
“Our L2 Hard Side Special Edition starts with Phoenix’s base hard side model and adds our L2 feature set. This includes a double-welded aluminum frame, fiberglass siding, Rieco-Titan mechanical jacks, R5 wall and ceiling insulation, Fantastic Vent, LED lighting, 100Ah lithium battery, queen size bed, and a screen door.
The L2 features really take things up a notch including a wet bath with cassette toilet and shower, a combination sink and stove, solid surface countertops, birch cabinetry, DSI water heater, 10K BTU furnace, 175-watt solar panel, 30 amp converter, and 110-volt electrical system.
Finally, the L2 Hard Side Special Edition includes a ton of our most popular options; a sit-up height north-south cabover, extra storage and outlets in the cabover, rear wall air conditioner, tall rear cabinet with hanging and adjustable shelf storage, aluminum scissor steps, 30 gallon fresh tank, 4.5 cubic foot 12-volt refrigerator and freezer, exterior generator storage rack with slide, a 2,200 watt generator, and a built-in microwave.
Priced separately, the base camper, L2 features, and included options would total $64,000. The L2 Special Edition is $49,995. That’s nearly a 22% discount. We built an 8-foot version of this camper and weighed it at 2,190 pounds. Customers can still choose their solid surface countertop material from our Build Your Own list, and get the camper custom built to their truck.”
Order It Your Way
The 2025 Phoenix L2 Hard Side Special Edition showcased in this article is a refreshing reminder that (a) Phoenix makes hard sides, and (b) fully featured truck campers can learn new tricks without being bathroom-free or bare bones.
The 2025 Phoenix L2 Hard Side Special Edition isn’t a show pony camper that’s going to grab a lot of likes on Instagram from the cool kids. Robby and the team have built dozens of campers that fit that description, but this model is for those of us who want a practical truck camper with just enough features and luxury to be comfortable—and not a thing more. And they’ll build you a camper that perfectly fits your truck in the process. That’s what they do.
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