About this forum

Travel Trailer Owners Forum opened in September 2025 for people who pull a bumper-pull travel trailer behind a pickup or an SUV. Families with kids in the bunks, couples who go out on weekends, and a few retired members who follow the weather south. The big RV boards are good, but a question about a 26 foot Jayco gets buried under diesel pusher threads within an hour. Here it does not.

It is run by Kelly J., who goes by mod_kelly_j on the boards. She spent eleven years doing warranty paperwork and service writing at an RV dealership near Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and has pulled a 2016 Keystone Passport 2670BH around the upper Midwest since before that. She reads the contact address herself, usually within a couple of days, slower during the state park reservation windows.

How it is paid for

House rules

• Say what you tow with and what you tow. A hitch question has a different answer for a Tacoma than for an F-250.
• Post real numbers. What you paid, what the scale said, what the part cost. Vague questions get vague answers.
• No selling in threads. There is no classifieds board and there will not be one. Linking a public listing to make a point is fine.
• If you work for a dealer, a transport company or an auction, say so. Nobody minds, people mind finding out later.
• Mods can move, merge or lock threads and will say why. Towing arguments that break out in buying threads get moved to the tow board.
• Be decent to new members. Everybody here started with a tent and a bad night's sleep.
• Registration is by request while the bots are kept out. Ask through the contact page.

Minnesota state park reservations

A member asked for this in the welcome thread. Minnesota state park campsites open for reservation 120 days ahead of the arrival date, and the electric sites at the popular parks go within the first hour. Reservations run through the state DNR site. Once there is enough to argue about it will get its own thread.

What this forum is not

Not a dealer, not an auction, not a hitch shop, and not the owner's manual. When someone here gives you a torque number or a tow rating, check it against the sticker on your door and the manual for your year before you rely on it.