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Originally Posted by rhagfo
I see Hillsboro as your location, TX or OR?
If Oregon head for the coast, temperatures are mild in the winter mostly above freezing.
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Or North Carolina, or Ohio, or Indiana?
If camping in cold weather where you WILL be in freezing weather, dry camp, like you would in a tent. No water in your tanks. Use a port-a-potty you can dump every day in a pit toilet or campground sewer system. use water from containers, and put no water down the sinks. Take cat-baths with water warmed on the stove, and use lots of paper plates and plastic dinner ware so you can minimize dish washing. Keep your furnace running, don't cheap out here. Your furnace will help keep the underbelly of the camper a little warm too, even if it's not designed for that, it just happens and helps the floor from being so danged cold.
If you are in a freeze zone state, and you do use water in your camper fresh water and drain systems, you WILL need to winterize when you are done, or you WILL have frozen pipes and broken valves, and leaky sink faucets that spew water everywhere, and broken pipes under the floor.
If you are in an area where it just drops down to 32 at night and then warms up in the day, you'll be fine with water in your tanks.
If you ARE in a freeze zone, you do NOT want to hook up a water hose to your trailer and leave it turned on. It WILL freeze and break.
Again, your best option for a couple day journey is to use no water in your camper systems. Bring your own water, dump everything outside the trailer, and absolutely nothing goes down the sink drains or toilet.
We use our Montana High Country all winter long. We do not have running water in it, even though it's rated for zero degree weather. But in order to accomplish that, the furnace will run through a 30 pound tank of propane above every 24 hours. it costs, yes. But it's worth it. And absolutely no water. We use a port-a-potty.