Rallies and Shows

The 2024 Overland Expo Mountain West in Loveland, Colorado, August 23-25, is now in the books with over 18,000 attendees, 300 plus exhibitors, and over 300 classes. Over 70 journalists covered the show, including Truck [read more]

The Elevation Off Grid (EOG) Rig took first place at the just completed 2024 Overland Expo Mountain West in Loveland, Colorado. The “top rig” award was given by Truck Camper Adventure, a web magazine for [read more]

A short-bed truck camper model by Kingstar has long been in the making and it’s finally here. We got our first look of the new Kingstar KRUZR 6 at the 2024 Overland Expo Mountain West [read more]

We love truck campers here at Truck Camper Adventure. We also love Jeeps. Combine the Jeep and the camper and you get the best of both worlds. At the 2024 Overland Expo West, we were [read more]

The Route 66 Fun Run. The name sounds like a marathon, a long-distance foot race on the famous highway. Yet the Fun Run is anything but. It’s actually a three-day road trip and car show, [read more]

The 2024 Overland Expo West in Flagstaff, Arizona, May 17-19, was one for the ages with 29,500 attendees, 415 exhibitors, and 318 classes. Over 100 journalists covered the show, including yours truly, who often felt [read more]

The Ford F-550 Kingstar Camino 88 rig took top honors at the 2024 Overland Expo West in Flagstaff, Arizona, that took place May 17-19. The award was given by Truck Camper Adventure, a web magazine [read more]

What’s going on everybody. Here are my first impressions, my first experiences truck camping and attending the Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally. Hopefully, this YouTube video will be helpful for those who don’t have any [read more]

The 2024 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally was a resounding success with a record 403 campers counted at the big, four-day event. The rally drew 686 truck camper owners from 46 states, six Canadian provinces, [read more]

The 2024 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally is in the history books with over 400 truck camper rigs showing up for this years’ festivities. With so many more rigs than last year, that meant plenty [read more]

The 5th Annual Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally is now in the record books with 403 campers present at the big, four-day event. A boondocking event held on BLM land, the 2024 rally drew 686 [read more]

Tickets for the 2024 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally are SOLD OUT with 450 tickets having been sold. The rally will be held in Quartzsite, Arizona, February 14-18, at the Roadrunner Wash Bureau of Land [read more]

Tickets for the 2024 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally are nearly sold out with a total of 447 of 450 tickets having been sold. The rally will be held in Quartzsite, Arizona, February 14-18, 2024. [read more]

Tickets for the 2024 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally are going fast. A total of 300 of 450 tickets have been sold. The rally will be held in Quartzsite, Arizona, February 14-18, 2024. This will [read more]

The 2024 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally is now SOLD OUT with 450 campers and 800 people scheduled to attend. The rally will be held in Quartzsite, Arizona, February 14-18, 2024. This will be largest [read more]

What a difference a decade makes. We attended our first Overland Expo in 2013 in Flagstaff, and since then we’ve watched that single show morph into four—the Overland Expo West, the Overland Expo East, the [read more]

The Overland Explorer Vehicles (OEV) High Country Rig took first place at the 2023 Overland Expo Pacific Northwest in Redmond, Oregon. The first place award was given by Truck Camper Adventure, a web magazine for [read more]

Aside from our very own Truck Camper Rally in Quartzsite, the Overland Expo West in Flagstaff, Arizona is the one event we look forward to covering each year. Why? The sheer volume of rigs, vendors, [read more]

The Bowen Customs Warthog took home first place at the 2023 Overland Expo West in Flagstaff, Arizona. The award was given by Truck Camper Adventure, a web magazine for off-road, off-grid truck camper enthusiasts. As [read more]

Austin Smart’s Ford F550-Northern Lite Rig took home top honors at the 2023 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally. As a matter of fact, his rig, consisting of a 2022 Ford F550, a Northern Lite 10-2, [read more]

The dates for the 2024 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally have now been set. The rally will take place February 14-18, 2024, with check-in scheduled Wednesday, February 14 at noon. Due to the delay in [read more]

The 4th Annual Truck Camper Adventure (TCA) Quartzsite Rally is now in the books with a record 332 truck camper rigs counted at the big, four-day event. A total of 592 owners from 46 states [read more]

My, how time flies. It’s already mid-January and the 2023 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally is less than a month away. At present, we have nearly 800 people and 410 truck campers enrolled in the [read more]

The 2023 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally is now SOLD OUT. With 400 truck campers, this will be largest truck camper rally ever held, surpassing last year’s record of 240 campers. If you missed out [read more]

Tickets are going fast for the 2023 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally with 300 of the 400 tickets having already been sold [Update: 373 tickets have been sold as of Nov 6]. If you’re thinking [read more]

This was Truck Camper Adventure’s first time covering the Overland Expo Mountain West and the 1,800-mile round trip from Kingman, Arizona to Loveland, Colorado was well worth it. We camped in the “Weekend Pass” camping [read more]

The 2023 Truck Camper Adventure Quartzsite Rally is now SOLD OUT. The rally will be held in Quartzsite, Arizona, February 9-12, 2023. If you missed out on getting tickets to this BIG outdoor event, don’t [read more]

Truck Camper Adventure is proud to announce that we will be covering the 2022 Overland Expo Mountain West in Loveland, Colorado, 26-28 August. Over 290 exhibitors of Overland, Adventure Travel, Outdoor, Camping and Motorcycle Gear [read more]

We love the Overland Expo West. New truck campers and expedition rigs are rolled out for this big show every year, and if there’s anything we love here at Truck Camper Adventure, it’s new truck [read more]

When it comes to RV shows and truck campers, nothing beats the Overland Expo West in Flagstaff. Sure, you can find a handful of truck campers at the Elkhart RV Show and perhaps six or [read more]

Rossmönster Overland will be launching its brand-new Lagom Series truck topper at the Overland Expo West, 20-22 May in Flagstaff, Arizona. According to the press release, the Lagom will be Rossmönster Overland’s most compact and [read more]

Nimbl Vehicles will reveal its new carbon fiber Evolution camper at the 2022 Overland Expo West, 20-22 May. To celebrate the big change, the company will be displaying the updated camper on a new platform, [read more]

The 2022 Truck Camper Adventure Rally in Quartzsite was the best one yet with a record 245 truck campers present, including an excellent mix of hard-sides and pop-ups. As expected, industry heavyweight, Lance Campers, led [read more]

It’s no secret that we love classic trucks and campers here at Truck Camper Adventure. Over the years, we’ve published several stories featuring restored Avions and Alaskans. We’ve also published stories on newer rigs using [read more]

The 3rd Annual Truck Camper Adventure Boondocking in the Desert Rally in Quartzsite, Arizona is now in the books with a record 245 truck campers attending the four-day event. The rally drew 411 truck camper [read more]

Truck Camper Adventure (TCA) is holding its 3rd annual Boondocking in the Desert Rally this week in Quartzsite, Arizona. The owners of 300 campers, from all over the United States and Canada, have enrolled in [read more]

For the first time in two years, Four Wheel Campers held a truck camper owner’s rally. The rally took place in Southern California’s beautiful Anza Borrego desert with a record-setting 130 Four Wheel Campers and [read more]

D&H Truck Camper Emporium, one of the top truck camper dealerships in the country, will be showcasing several Northern Lite, Host Campers, and KingStar truck campers at the upcoming 2022 Florida RV Supershow in Tampa. [read more]

Downsizing’s popularity created the tiny house craze. Toyota has taken the craze one step further with its brand-new Tacozilla Tacoma Truck Camper, an overlanding-ready, “micro-house” 4×4 rig that pays tribute to the original Toyota Chinook [read more]

Toyota is building what promises to be an amazing chassis-mounted truck camper for the 2021 SEMA show in Las Vegas. Called “Tacozilla,” the Inspiration for the build was provided by the 1976 Toyota Chinook pop-up [read more]

Enrollment in the third annual, 2022 Truck Camper Adventure Boondocking in the Desert Rally is now closed. The rally will be held in Quartzsite, Arizona, February 10-13, 2022. The owners of 300 campers have enrolled. [read more]

After a 16-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Truck Camper Adventure is happy to report that the 2021 Overland Expo West in Flagstaff, Arizona, went off without a hitch with over 30,000 people attending. [read more]

In exclusive breaking news, Truck Camper Adventure has just learned that Alaskan Campers will be launching its new Sportsman truck camper at the 2021 Overland Expo West. Designed with the minimalist in mind, the non-cabover [read more]

AT Overland will be debuting the new Aterra XL flatbed camper at the 2021 Overland Expo West in Flagstaff, Arizona, 24-26 September 2021. Engineered by David Soza of Tern Overland and collaboratively built with AT [read more]

Truck Camper Adventure’s very own 2021 Bundutec Roadrunner will be on display at the 2021 Overland Expo West at the Ft. Tuthill County Park in Flagstaff, Arizona, 24-26 September 2021. The truck camper rig will [read more]

BundutecUSA just relaunched the Topi, a rugged, pop-up truck camper made for mid-size trucks. Originally released in 2019, the relaunched Topi features a redesigned floorplan with the refrigerator and all of the camper’s storage compartments [read more]

The 2021 Truck Camper Adventure Boondocking in the Desert Rally in Quartzsite, Arizona enjoyed a record showing in what was probably the largest truck camper rally ever held. Consisting of 173 attendees and 107 campers [read more]

Enrollment in the 2021 Truck Camper Adventure Rally is now open, but will close on February 5 for name tag processing. To date, over 160 campers and their owners have enrolled in what will probably [read more]