Trail Creek Road outside of Ketchum Idaho is another one with signs discouraging trailers. Since we tow our Jeep, I prefer to unhitch and drive separately when we encounter unfamiliar terrain esp marked with a warning sign. Turns out a long trailer would be a challenge up and down the side of the mountain only when the road narrows which was minimal along the stretch.

Having had numerous hard side truck campers from half ton size up to an F450, all with air bags, the large multi slide units are not safely suitable for anything rougher than a regularly maintained gravel road. We have always taken the less travelled roads and found the “hippo-hipped” lux TC to be cumbersome and restricted our travel due to the extra height, width, weight, and extreme overhang. The luxurious space was nice but not worth missing out on the remote spots.

Most yes, but not all. You need 4WD to get out of deep sand and there’s lots of it on the Bradshaw Trail and lots of other 4WD roads.

Thanks, Bryan. We agree. 🙂

Mick,
An EarthRoamer, which is on a Ford F-550 4×4 SRW chassis with size 41 tires, could do the Bradshaw Trail, but I wouldn’t recommend doing it in a standard long-bed dually with a Mammoth. We had a one-ton, short-bed dually with an Arctic Fox 811 try it and it got a flat tire on one of the inner duals. His rear jack also scraped on a few steep drop offs.

Yes, Don, I agree a sway bar like the Hellwig Big Wig can go a long ways toward eliminating sway and keeping things even in off-camber situations, but you can’t take it too far, obviously. There comes a point when even a Big Wig can’t resist the forces of a 11,000 truck camper rig tilting too much. 😉

No, not all all. A low-profile hard-side with a SRW truck can do these, but not a long-bed, crewcab dually with a triple-slide out like the Mammoth. It’s a great camper, but not one I would take on rugged 4×4 roads or places with low-hanging tree branches like those found at La Poel.