What keeps them camping in Montana in the winter? They have good jobs and just cant find a house to rent? Back in 2011 I couldnt find a house to rent or buy in western N Dakota due to the oil boom and lots of workers were camping - but they were all making more money than the locals pre-oil.

While putting myself thru college. I lived in my truck at a campground. Many many people I met lived like that. Retired couples. Folks that just sold there house. Etc……
Best years of my life. Simple and free!!!

About8 years ago I had a site at a year around campground. Rate was $1500.00 for the year. You payed for electricity. Pretty sweet deal IMO. But not for everyone.

I believe a camper placed inside a pole barn would be pretty good living ! Out of the elements they last. Be enough shelter from snow and wind inside the building.

Very common for Michigan snowbirds. Build a pole barn on some rural land. Back in the big travel trailer for the summer. Septic and electric hookup and property taxes only on the barn.

Treeda blackdog ,They just just live and work in the area ,not here for vacation.

They working oil also? Think it would be cold in a camper thru winter there

My friend has 4 sites on his place
I have 1
875 per month to park including hookup and internet

I live adjacent to a rv park. There are many people that live in them year around because of work. We have had wind farms put up for the last 5 years. Almost all these workers live in campers and they know how to survive cold winters in them. The landlord charges $100 a month more after November 1st. Most have several electric heaters in them. I was visiting with a young guy that worked for the erection crew. He was paid $1050 per week per diem. Thats $4100 a month. His camper and pickup was paid for. He sunk his whole per diem check into a retirement fund and easily lived on wages. He plans to be retired at 50.

Buddy of mine lived a few winters in a tiny camper in the back of an early 90s 2wd S10. He wouldn’t even pop the camper up all the way as it stayed so much warmer. Luckily he was even shorter than me! lol. I’ve spent a. Purple summers living in campers, one even had electricity! I sure wouldnt want to live with a wife and two kids in a camper year round, but if a guy had to it would work. Happy trapping! ScottW

Wonder about that with satellites and drones off grid is out of the question anymore.

I could easy, and my wife would love it we stay from May through august in a trailer, Tho be it we stay in one place, we had planned on finding a place down south for the winter, but plans change, now we are raising kids

I get a kick out of these people with their ( Tiny Home) thing. Just a modern version of a 1960 trailer home with no wheels. . In fact most are just that a wheel less version of what now called a park model camper. My sister in-law and her husband have a park model camper on a seasonal site. That thing has never moved since they parked it and is hooked up to utilities. Park has a closing date in fall and opening date in the spring. Their version of camping which is way nicer than what my family called our cottage.
Everything is nicer and lighter weight with modern materials. Just how it is now.

Mac

Living In a camper with another person for any length of time would have me leaving for parts unknown. I don't know how you could handle It.

https://www.granddesignrv.com/travel-trailers/reflection/297rsts
This is one of three similar models we are serious about.

Looking at one of these for spending the winters in FLA, AZ and Texas, probably a month in each, mostly on BLM land. From Christmas to April then back to MN in the summer.

I would like to be south for longer but with 14 grandchildren, my wife thinks three months is enough to be away.

Alot less grandkids than there used to be. Grandkids also go to daycare then sit on a iPad when they come home, grandparents are "less needed". I don't know how my wife and I would manage without my parents helping with the kids but I don't see my friends as being dependent on their parents as they go through the daycare/iPad cycle.

My dad will take month long vacations but my mom likes to stay home with the kids/grandkids even if we encourage her to go.

Are you talking junky campers or nice ones? I've got friends and family who have pretty awesome 5th wheels and snowbird and some who do the traveling RN / PA thing. Crazy some of the offers and signing bonuses they give them in certain areas that are in need of medical stuff. 6 month contracts and huge bonuses. They tour all over. Wife does her RN thing ang the husband works from the trailer. Not sure I'd want to do it in the northern states in winter, but those new campers are insulated better than they used to be. Fireplaces and everything.

Nice,,,, but 70 g ? Ought
And no generator....or outdoor kitchen.....
I would want solar also when dry cramping....

Ive lived in one twice both times in Wyoming and over a few winters combined, once as a single guy in a 35ft fifth wheel, and the last time with my wife and a one year old in a 42ft fifth wheel. The first time tricked me into thinking I could do it a second. Never again at least not without some serious changes like building a porch and mudroom off the front and installing a wood stove(unless you traveled south in the winter.) when it gets down to 15-20 below its dang near impossible to keep them warm, lots of space heaters, heated blankets and burning a metric ton of propane. As a single guy I just slept in the same bedroll I use in wall tents and rolled out next to a fire and did alright. I also fought with keeping it from freezing up in the winter even with commercial skirting, hay bales and some risky heat lamps, the last straw for my bride was 4 days of no water during a week long -20 spell. Went and bought her a house without wheels after that.

I won't buy a new one, there are a LOT of good used ones available for less than half the price of new. I'll customize it somewhat including adding a solar panel to the roof. Most of them are solar ready these days. I'll also carry a small Honda generator and use lithium batteries.

Figure out a way to haul a side by side or a quad,,, and AZ has a lot to offer for free.

If I wanted to be close to town.... ,(30 mile)
Off 17 by lake pleasant
I think the exit is for the town of. Carefree....
Go west a bit and it is big AZ public land