For Behind the Shot Part 4, we are featuring photos and stories from Dawson Creek, Baja, Grand Teton National Park and many more! Click here to participate in the 2025 Truck Camper Magazine Calendar Contest and be considered for a Behind the Shot feature.
Greg Kenneson
Dawson Creek, British Columbia
2024 Ford F 350
2024 Arctic Fox 1150
Camera Used – iPad
Driving the Alaska Highway has been on my bucket list. This year we packed our camper in western New York and headed to Denali National Park, Alaska. Dawson Creek is the official start of the Alaska Highway. We stopped at the visitor center to take a photo to mark the beginning of our Alaska trip before camping in Dawson Creek.
John Testa
Middle Baja
2003 Chevy 2500 and 2006 Ram 2500
Outfitter Apex 8 and Northstar
Camera Used – iPhone 14 Pro Max
I went to Baja with a group of friends; five popups and one truck of dirt campers in a Tacoma. The road takes three hours to go 20 miles and it changes after the heavy monsoon rains every few years. We all brought kayaks and one small John boat with a four-house outboard that can be car-topped. Great weather and good fishing. We lasted a week at this spot. I can’t wait for next May.
Danny Eades
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
2021 Chevrolet 3500 HD
2000 Lance 835
Camera Used – Cannon 60D
Grand Tetons was our 5th National Park on this trip. We had visited Mount Rainier, Olympic, Grand Cascades and Yellowstone National Parks and was making our way back to Texas. This photo was taken the morning we left Colter Bay campgrounds to make one last drive through the park.
Brennan Goble
Below Crowsnest Mountain, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
2024 GMC Sierra 3500
2019 Adventurer 910DB
Camera Used – iPhone 14 Pro
I took a chance to find a spot after seeing some campers parked here on Google Maps. I figured it would be a good staging area to ride and explore the Crowsnest area on our side by sides and quads. I got to experience the extreme wind the Crowsnest area is known for, along with the immense beauty of the mountains.
Wade Sumner
Kofa Reserve, Arizona
2019 Ford F250
2020 OEV Camp X
Camera Used – iPhone 13
This was our first time visiting Kofa, before meeting up at the American Adventurist Desert Rendezvous 2024. The ‘hook was set’ as Kofa is magical indeed. The desert glow under the moonlit sky was amazing.
Bob Hallock
Tonsina, Alaska
2021 Chevy 5500
Eagle Cap 1165
Camera Used – DGI 4 Pro Drone
We were making our way to Homer, Alaska when we found this beautiful pull-off in the Tonsina area. We were able to camp there for the night. In the evening the mountains in the background really did have a purple appearance. It was the perfect spot for a drone shot.
Shane Palmer
Colorado
2000 Ford F350
2024 Northstar 850SC
Camera Used – iPhone
We try to get out every weekend to go camping in the Colorado Says mountains. We can get back far enough or no one can camp. It’s close to home; within an hour’s drive.
Craig Beaudin
Willow Creek Hot Spring, Oregon
2003 Toyota Tundra
2015 Northstar 700SS
Camera Used – Samsung Galaxy S22
Willow Creek is one of my favorite places to camp because of the hot spring, night sky, and the cast of characters that pass through this magical spot. It was the first place that I took my dog, Rambo, camping to and he made friends with some other people who were cooking up some bacon.
I have taken similar photos of this spot during the day but decided to do some night photography due to the amazing night sky. This area is the best that I have seen in the lower 48 for star gazing as light pollution is non-existent due to how remote of an area it is.
Steve Osburn
Salmon Glacier Overlook, north of Hyder, Alaska
2019 Ford F350
2023 Northern Lite 10-2EX
Camera Used – Phone
An Alaska road trip from Washington State has been on our bucket list for a couple of decades. Over the years, we compiled a list of places to see and things to do, and the overlook above Salmon Glacier was added to the list many years ago. This year the trip finally happened; an epic three (plus) month trip that took us to places like Banff, Tuktoyaktuk, Denali, Skagway, and dozens of other places – including the Salmon Glacier. The road to the glacier is filled with steep grades, washboards and potholes. It’s actually a road built to support mining operations which are still active today.
We arrived in late August, and the fall weather was already setting in. We got to the glacier overlook and had peek-a-boo views of the glacier, but we knew that we were camped in the perfect spot that if the clouds broke, we’d have an epic shot. I got some cool photos with the clouds, but we heard that the weather was supposed to improve the next day, so we got up the next morning to see we were engulfed in a cloud and could see nothing. We waited. We waited some more. Others were at the viewpoint as well. Some, like us, spent the night, but there were many who came up that morning. They waited too. The clouds would lift a little, give us 15 seconds of view, and then blow back in. Finally, we had a solid break at about 11 AM and I got the shot I was hoping for. The slight fog that was still over the glacier just made the shot more interesting. I had to cross the street and duck behind some rocks to get our camper to look like we were the only ones there, but I liked the foreground, so that worked.
Gary Weihe
Kathline Rock, Utah (on road to BullFrog Marina, Utah)
2023 Ford F550
2019 Cirrus 820
Camera Used – iPhone 8+
On the return trip from our first trip to Lake Powell (fishing, camping, sightseeing, etc.) we passed this interesting rock formation and I thought it would be a good backdrop for our new truck camper rig picture.
Keith Schwerin
Energy Lake, Kentucky
2022 Ford F350
2023 Northern Lite 10-2EX
Camera Used – iPhone
We were camping in Kentucky at Land Between The Lakes. Energy Lake is a nice small campground. There were only two other campers in the loop we were staying in.
Patrick Ash
Grand Marias, Michigan
2020 Chevy 3500
2008 Arctic Fox 990
Camera Used – Android phone
I stopped at Grand Marias harbor on this beautiful sunny U.P. day while on our summer trip to the better half of Michigan.
Melanie Winans
Delta, Utah
2006 Dodge Ram 1500
2010 Phoenix pop-up camper
Camera Used – Android Moto E
Big Sandy River near Farson, Wyoming is a perfect middle meeting place for my partner and me to meet up. We live four hours apart and have found this little secret spot just off the highway and behind a ridge next to a beautiful, cold, and slow-moving stream. It’s perfect for spontaneous get-togethers when the calendar doesn’t work for longer get-togethers. We’ve weathered sub-zero temps on New Year’s Eve as well as tumultuous summer rain storms. Just like the postman, love finds its way!
Jose Miguel Castello
Secret Road, Baja
2017 Ford F350
FWC Hawk Flatbed
Camera Used – DJI Mavic
Always take the side roads in Baja. You never know what you might find!
William Tessier
Wyoming
2018 Ford F450
2019 Capri Retreat
Camera Used – Nikon D5500
Chasing the Lights.
James Raftery
Navajo Lake, Utah
2024 Ford F-250
2022 Palomino 1803
Camera Used – iPhone 13
I was up in Navajo Lake in July. I always go in July of every year. I’m from Las Vegas and it’s 117 so I come up to Navajo Lake to cool down.
Larry Moonan
Kirkwood, California
2017 Ford F-350
2008 Lance 1055
Camera Used – iPhone 14 Pro
Our truck camper is like a mobile condo for ski weekends in the snow! We can overnight in one of several Tahoe area Snoparks and take the short drive to enjoy breakfast in the parking lot at Kirkwood before the first chair. When the ski day wraps up we have dinner and sometimes even a shower there before heading back to the Snowpark or home.
Doreen Velmer
Shawnee National Forest, Pennant Bar Pond #8, Grantsburg, Illinois
2020 Ford F-250
Palomino Real Lite SS-1608
Camera Used – Canon sx740hs
Starting our four week Eclipse trip, we left Massachusetts in mid-March and traveled down the Blue Ridge Parkway on our way to Sulpher Springs, Texas. We concluded the best place to get the full Eclipse experience was out west, not in the East in April. However, along the way, Mother Nature did not cooperate and predicted much cloud cover in Texas. We opted to make a decision two days before the event on where to go. Just south of Carbondale, Illinois, and north of Paducah, Kentucky, we settled in the Shawnee National Forest in Illinois, boondocking on a grassy mountain next to a beautiful stocked fish pond.
Early on the morning of April 8, there was a thick mist on the mountain pond, with hopes of it clearing out by 11am. To our delight, Mother Nature was on cue and the fog lifted to reveal a bright blue cloudless sky.
Just a note, there were clear skies in Vermont for the eclipse also! Whoda thunk?
I walked around the pond to see where I could take interesting pictures of the camper with the eclipse. It was a difficult task, not knowing really where the sun will be. I settled on a view lying down next to our camper looking up, catching the total eclipse, and clipping our camper and truck. An eerie totality of 4’07” gave us a spectacular quiet 360 view of the mountain. It was not until we looked at the photos later, that my husband said that you could see two planets in one of the photos, Jupiter and Venus. Look close and there are two tiny white spots in the photo. They are either planets or spots on my camera lens. But we are pretty sure they are celestial.
Sandy Hunter
Whitefish, Montana
2004 Dodge 3500
2022 Lance 975
Camera Used – iPhone 13 Pro
Camping with our friends on the property they recently bought in Whitefish, Montana. I had the docking lights on and the night mist had created a cool look.
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