For off-road campers Washington, our advice is to keep the camper light, keep it narrow enough for forest roads and check the truck's payload before anything else. Our shop is in Monroe, WA.

Cascade passes and winter weather

Washington's highway passes (Snoqualmie, Stevens, White and Chinook, plus the North Cascades Highway on SR-20, which closes for the winter) are where weight meets weather. Grades, cold nights and traction rules make your truck's payload a bigger question here than in most states.

• Weigh the loaded truck, not the empty one, before you pick a camper
• Plan for passes with winter closures or traction requirements, and carry what the rules ask for
• For cold-season trips, the insulated Apex is the one built for it

Picking a camper for your truck

• Apex: The four-season slide-in pop-up truck camper. It is fully welded aluminum with no wood and 1-inch XPS insulation, built to your bed length from 5 ft to 8 ft, with base weights from 1,029 to 1,316 lb. If you camp through winter, this is the one built for it.
• Frontier: The wedge pop-up. It clamps on with no drilling, weighs about 300 to 350 lb, sleeps one or two adults, and closes down to 9 inches tall, so it barely changes how the truck drives or parks.
• Summit: The wide-body pop-up. It clamps on the same way, weighs about 480 to 570 lb and sleeps three or four, with standing height of roughly 6 ft 7 in or more under the soft-wall tent.

The payload calculator turns those weights into a go or no-go for your specific truck, and Frontier vs. Summit covers the pop-up decision in detail.

Where the work gets done

Every install and every service visit happens at our own shop in Monroe, WA, on the US-2 side of the Cascades. Installed pricing includes the installation, and we confirm fit from your vehicle measurements first. Farther away in Washington, you can ship a Frontier or Summit to your door free and assemble it yourself, or plan the drive to Monroe. Service questions go to (425) 908-0259.

Related pages: Overland Campers in Washington, Truck Campers Near Tacoma, WA, Truck Camper Installation in Washington.

The camper collection has the full specs, lead times are posted and we are at (425) 908-0259 when you want a person.