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Off-Road and Off-The-Grid Campers

Our Off-Road and Off-The-Grid Campers section includes extreme rigs, off-road adventures, winter and beach camping.  For many, going off-road is the reason for a truck camper.

Extreme Rigs
Capturing The Mythical Roamer Camper

Roamer Campers are extremely rare with molded fiberglass on the interior and exterior.  Roamer RV is no more, but there are some interesting ideas in the design.

Extreme Rigs
Around the World On A Mattress

Doug and Lindsey ordered a Phoenix Custom Camper, sold everything, quit their jobs, and are traveling the world with their mattress.

Extreme Rigs
The Fox and The Semi

When Dennis Lynton saw an article in TCM featuring a camper on a big rig, he made a phone call, bought a Volvo 670 semi, and got to work.

Extreme Rigs
Goose Camping at the Cram-A-Lot Inn

This is the story behind the construction of the Cram-A-Lot Inn; a Polaris RZR with a Palomino pop-up camper.

Extreme Rigs
Triple-Slide On A Class 5

Bruce Ludlum assembled a Ram 5500 with an 11-foot cab and chassis, a highly-customized Knapheide utility bed, and an Eagle Cap 1165.

Extreme Rigs
Land Rover Goes Wild Camping

With a Land Rover Defender TDCi and Northstar 700DL, Martin Dover travels off-road and wild camps across England, France, and Italy.

Extreme Rigs
Building a Freightliner Truck Camper

A Freightliner M2-106 and a Arctic Fox 1150 were assembled into one of the most impressive Freightliner truck camper combinations.

Extreme Rigs
Paving the Way For Unimog Campers

Daniel Bass engineered and built a custom overland vehicle with a Unimog U1300L and a Four Wheel Camper Grandby pop-up truck camper.

Extreme Rigs
Alaskan Dream Machine

Stephen O’Neal builds a flatbed Alaskan truck camper rig tricked out and modded to an extreme rarely seen.

Extreme Rigs
Fire Truck To Triple-Slide

Thomas and Sequoia converted a 1978 International Harvester Loadstar 1700 fire truck into an off-road ready, triple-slide truck camper.

Extreme Rigs
Return of the Amphicamper

It’s a truck camper! It’s a boat! It’s a truck camping boat? Animal Planet’s Flipping Ships dredges up an Avion camper.

Extreme Rigs
Tiny House Truck Camper Crosses America

This is how Jason Fox built a tiny house on a pickup truck.

Extreme Rigs
How To Build A World Ready Rig – Part 2

The Heimbigners tell us about their world ready rig while testing a compost toilet, pushing their off-grid systems, and avoiding piranhas.

Extreme Rigs
How To Build A World Ready Rig – Part 1

100 gallons of water and 130 gallons of diesel ready for world travel.

Extreme Rigs
The Fuso Four Wheel Camper

Sunil Hegde had a vision of the ultimate overland truck camper rig for world travel. He started with a Mitsubishi Fuso FG.

Extreme Rigs
The Overland Fuso Truck Camper

What happens when you put together a Mitsubishi Fuso FG140 four-wheel drive, four-cylinder diesel and a loaded Hallmark Ute XS?

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