Cold Weather RV Camping

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What's the coldest you've stayed in an RV and did you have any problems? Over the week of Thanksgiving, we'll be traveling Idaho as my daughter wants to check out colleges in Boise, Coeur D'Alene, and Idaho Falls/Pocatello. 

All days are above freezing or high 20s but Idaho Falls is going to get in the low teens. I think on that Friday, it's got a low of 10 degrees at night. That scares me a bit. I've got a Jayco Redhawk Class C. It's got tank heaters and the furnace does produce heat to underbelly but will it be enough? Let know your experiences. 

Andrew

 
I think you will be fine with the tank heaters. Worst case add some skirting around the MH t night to keep a little heat under the MH.  Take plenty of blankets though

 
You should be fine. I have camped in temps down into the low teens at night and never had anything freeze up. With the heater on at night there is enough heat to prevent freezing. 

 
if you are full hookups you an leave the water dripping, I'm winterizing our Moho today... Id also bring a electric portable heater and let it rip, heat pumps don't work that great at those temps. 

 
If you're on hookups.. you can run a little space heater in the basement if you're worried about it.

Otherwise.... It's gonna be cold AF lol.  Do you have lithium batteries?

 
Bring an electric heater or two and plug those in since you have full hookups. Unhook your hose and put it in the shower at night... 

 
If the campground has bathrooms and showers I'd use those to limit how much water will be in your holding tanks. A gallon or two of RV antifreeze in the holding tank will mix with the existing stew to keep your tank from freezing and cracking.

 
Camped in low teens. The draw straw to fresh water froze as it just sits below the tanks. But not a big deal. The shitter drops straight down so didn’t need water and had bottled water to drink. But we sure burned through a lot of propane. Toy haulers are just not insulated well. 

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Have done into the low single digits in Mammoth a couple years ago, don’t really recommend that in an RV larger than maybe a van camper. Anyway, use the furnace so that it heats the basement as well. Yeah, you’re going to use a lot of propane, whatever. Leave a faucet dripping if you’re going to leave the hose connected to the spigot. When we did the single digits I ran an extension cord from the basement to the pedestal connected to the 15/20A socket and ran a space heater near the fresh water tank and had a drop light with an OG 100W bulb in the wet bay where my water pump is located. Ram the furnace and supplemented it with a space heater. We stayed plenty warm. I had to use the separate cord for the basement heating as the pedestal was not 50A in our situation so I couldn’t load the rig down with too much power draw. I was also running the block heater on the Cummins for good measure.

Our normal camping over Thanksgiving in the Owens Valley can get into the teens and I haven’t had to use the drastic heating measures there as I did in Mammoth.

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All good replies. Definitely let the city water drip to avoid freezing. I've disconnected ( before bed) from the water hook up and drained my hose + leave the spigot dripping.

 
I've been in single digit temps in my moho several times. Mine has tank heaters for gray and black tanks and heat to the wet bay. Water tank is inside under the bed. I use the furnace and a couple portable electric heaters to take some of the load off the furnace and no issues. You also want a couple of electric heaters just in case your furnace craps out. Either disconnect water hose and run off your tank or get one of the heated/insulated hoses. I've done both and either way works. 

 
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