trailers

Australians don't compromise when it comes to tough camper trailers. So if you're named "Australian Off Road," your "most basic model yet" includes a galvanized steel foundation, airy queen bedroom, lithium-based electrical system and large kitchen.

As glamping, overlanding and #vanlife prove, camping means different things to different people. Fargo Elite Cabins reaches out to several styles of camper with a sleek, modern cabin that can be a motorhome, camping trailer, houseboat or tiny home.

When we first covered the Beauer 3X expanding camping trailer, we feared it might be a very cool prototypes that never got off the ground. But a few years later, Beauer appears to be humming along and is now expanding with a smaller two-person 2X.

Tentrax sells tiny trailers that are essentially wheeled fiberglass tubs, opening to create a tent or provide cargo access. Tentrax will soon bring the party with a tailgating model that packs a kitchen, cooler, flip-up TV, sound system and beer tap.

Last year, Dutch startup Lume wowed the world with its convertible Traveler LT360 caravan. Lume's debut model was successful enough to inspire a second model, the longer, more spacious Traveler LT540 with toilet room and available indoor kitchen.

French tiny house firm Baluchon recently completed a new tiny house that measures just 6 m (19.6 ft) long and serves as home to a family of three.

Adria designed the new Astella trailer to travel from campsite to campsite or serve as a cabin, bringing modern comfort to wild spaces that lack them.

Mars Campers' impressive Saturn 13 rides compact but capable to camp, growing once there to offer a spacious place to spend a night.

Just months after debuting the X1-H with integrated hard-top tent, Australia's Patriot Campers is breaking its tent options wide open. In place of an integrated tent, the all-new X1-N features a built-in roof rack for use with any roof-top tent (RTT) ... or no tent at all.

One of the more intriguing campers in the modern surge of adventurous teardrop trailers, the Escapod Topo combines rugged construction, compact design and killer graphics. A few months after discovering it last year, we took one out for a long weekend to see what the teardrop craze is all about.

A compact toy hauler and dedicated efficiency apartment, the Sportcaravan Cube is fully equipped for adventure and living. It fits its garage and four-sleeper living space together like a puzzle, fully separating snoozing campers from the jet ski or bikes on the other side of the wall.

The new AntiShanty trailer is more than meets the eye, a part-time cargo box, part-time tiny cabin. You could call it a mobile mountain hut for surf bums and dirtbag climbers, carrying everything from an ATV, to boards, to a mess of camping gear before converting over to a high-ceiling mini-lodge.