Glacier Peak Fifth Wheels from Outdoor RV - RV-Dreams Community Forum

mycroft8 · RV-Dreams Community Member

Glacier Peak Fifth Wheels from Outdoor RV

Dave and Denise · RV-Dreams Family Member

I had never heard of this trailer manufacturer before. I did like the floor plans and enjoyed looking through the website and pulling some up at a few dealers. Looked good, at least on-line. For us, we did not want the frameless windows, which this brand appears to have. Have you eliminated the Arctic Fox from your list? They have some very popular under 30' models.

mycroft8 · RV-Dreams Community Member

Thanks for the response. Right now my preference is for a length of 32-36 feet. That may change as I get closer to the point where I can start wandering.

I think that the "full profile" Glacier Peak fifth wheel's are only about 2 years old; and they are not trying to build them in volume. So they may be hard to find used.

Dave

NWescapee · RV-Dreams Family Member

Haven't seen the 5th wheel, but we owned an Outdoor RV travel trailer, Wind River, before we went full time. Loved it, and had great service from their dealer in Sumner WA when we owned it. If we hadn't decided to FT, we would still have that trailer. It felt like the storage was arranged better than most TT's. The 4 season rating on the Wind River was something we wanted and their insulation was good. We camped in the Tri Cities (WA), in triple digits and in the Cascades and Eastern WA in below freezing temps without issue. Just needed something bigger for FT for 2 of us who are both still working while on the road.

Bob Lacourse · RV-Dreams Community Member

I've been researching 5th wheels for almost 2 years now. Looked at every brand. I decided on the Glacier Peak Mountain series F30 RLS. Will be ordering soon. I looked at several in Mesa AZ next to my house. There well built and I highly recommend this unit.

jayc · RV-Dreams Family Member

I've never heard of this manufacturer, so I have no comments on the quality. I wonder where you get one serviced when there are few dealers. I know that Heartland - my brand - allows you to take your trailer to any repair facility, with prior approval, even a mobile tech. You pay any cll out fees and Heartland picks up the repair costs.

There are three models that Heartland builds, Landmark, Big Horn and Big Country, that are rated and warranted for full time use. We are on our second Landmark and have had few problems with them.

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Just to mention it, Thor bought up DRV Suites and placed it under the Heartland umbrella.

As for Outdoor RV, one of our camp hosts just traded their travel trailer for an Outdoor RV travel trailer. They are very pleased with the new rig, much more so than their previous rig. The construction and insulation is much better, and since this couple is one of the other camp hosts here at Kanab, Utah, they are really pleased with how much warmer it is than their old model. He also did research on recalls for the different brands/models, and where his old RV had something like 4 recalls on it, the Outdoor RV brand appears to have very little in the way of recalls.

Terry

rocketman · RV-Dreams Family Member

Check out HIGHLAND RIDGE RV'S AND OPEN RANGE RV'S....we love ours...

BulldogRoad · RV-Dreams Community Member

I also put this brand to my short list.
I read good things about it.

BiggarView · RV-Dreams Family Member

Not on our shortlist, but for Full Time use, I'd look for higher CCC numbers. the 250RDS, 250RKS and 260RLS have in excess of 3500 lbs.

Bulldog, you mentioned on your other post about adding solar and batteries... that will add plenty of weight, so higher CCC numbers should be on your radar too.