Turning Radius Truck/Trailer

[Colorado603]

Hey Everybody! Hope your spring is going well and you're getting ready to head out camping soon!

I'm making a spot for my trailer on my property and have a few questions. I need to clear a path through trees and rocks to make this happen. I'm curious if anybody out there knows what a safe turning radius would be and how wide a path would work. Need to do a 180 degree turn.

I have -
Ram 1500 Crew with 6' bed
Springdale 1750

Any help is much appreciated! Have a great week.

[flybouy]

For my truck and trailer it's about a 3 acre field L.O.L. But seriously the only thing I can recommend is to go to a very large empty parking lot and experiment. You could take a bunch of paper lunch bags with about 1" of sand in them (to keep from blowing away. Start out straight and make your uturn while someone walks beside dropping bags as you go on each side.

After you have made the first run do it again to see if the layout works. If you're blazing a trail thru trees don't forget the rear overhang of the trailer will swing wide.

[skids]

Also keep in mind that the spread axle trailers drag tires in tight turns. You dont want to leave stump remnants that will damage your sidewalls.

[LewisB]

Are you considering a "circle drive" or are you going to make a 3 point turn? As suggested, laying it out in a parking lot is the best plan.

[off topic]: Does Allenspark still have a volunteer fire department? We stayed at a B&B in Allenspark years ago - about 1971 - because we had just gotten married. When the fire siren went off, people were jumping out of the windows of the Elks Club, loading up in the back of pickups, and heading out to fight a fire! Great fun!

[travelin texans]

For my truck and trailer it's about a 3 acre field L.O.L. But seriously the only thing I can recommend is to go to a very large empty parking lot and experiment. You could take a bunch of paper lunch bags with about 1" of sand in them (to keep from blowing away. Start out straight and make your uturn while someone walks beside dropping bags as you go on each side.

After you have made the first run do it again to see if the layout works. If you're blazing a trail thru trees don't forget the rear overhang of the trailer will swing wide.

Then make it bigger, wider so you'll be good when you get the bigger, longer RV.

[JRTJH]

Then make it bigger, wider so you'll be good when you get the bigger, longer RV.

AND, you'll still fit in 3 years when the trees on each side of the drive grow and their branches widen. It's not fun to "trim the trees" every year to protect your TPO roof and FILON sidewalls, even if you don't buy a new, bigger RV in a couple of years.....

[flybouy]

AND, you'll still fit in 3 years when the trees on each side of the drive grow and their branches widen. It's not fun to "trim the trees" every year to protect your TPO roof and FILON sidewalls, even if you don't buy a new, bigger RV in a couple of years.....

Was thinking the same thing. I store ours at our daughter's house as the previous owner had a pad for their fiver. I have to back down a very narrow, long driveway with trees on one side. It's a right of way so can't cut trees down but can trim them back from extending over it.

It's a PIA to trim back all the growth from a football field length of driveway several times a year but it's free storage so there's that.