For offroad campers near Bellingham, WA, 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, about 80 miles from Bellingham.

Popular destinations from Bellingham

Popular offroad and dispersed-camping destinations from Bellingham include:

• The Mount Baker Highway toward Artist Point (summer only)
• The North Cascades Highway on SR-20
• Chuckanut Drive and the San Juan ferry runs

Bellingham puts you at the foot of the Mount Baker Highway and a short drive from SR-20 across the North Cascades. It is a wet, green corner of the state, and the reward for a camper with real headroom is that a rainy evening does not have to be spent lying down.

What the roads ask of a camper

Wet forest roads are soft, rutted and brushy, and they ask for a camper that is light and no wider than it needs to be. Plan on mud and overhanging branches.

Choosing between Frontier, Summit and Apex

• 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. Extra headroom is what you notice on a rainy evening, when you want to cook and change clothes standing up.
• 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.
• 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.

Check your truck against the payload calculator before you decide; the weights above are the starting point, and gear and water add to them.

Drive up, drive home with a camper on the truck

Installs and service happen at our own shop in Monroe, WA, which is about 80 miles from Bellingham: about an hour and a half. Installed pricing includes the installation, and we will confirm your truck's fit using your vehicle measurements before you make the trip. Call us at (425) 908-0259 (Mon to Fri, 9 to 5 Pacific) to set a day. If you would rather do it yourself, Frontier and Summit also ship disassembled, free, with assembly instructions.

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Browse the campers, check current lead times and call us at (425) 908-0259 (Mon to Fri, 9 to 5 Pacific) if you want to talk through fit.