Best Camper Guide
Honest comparisons, by truck.
Kimbo cross-shopped against the products you're actually considering — Four Wheel Campers, Scout, Go Fast Campers, Lance, Northstar, and the rest. By truck.
How this guide is different
Buyer help, not a sales pitch.
Most "best [truck] camper" pages you find online are either single-brand marketing dressed up as comparison, or generic listicles padded with affiliate links. We've written something different. Each page below covers a single truck and lays out the four to six campers we actually see owners cross-shopping — with real prices, real dry weights, honest takes on each product's strengths, and explicit recommendations for when something other than Kimbo is the right answer.
These pages live alongside our Truck Fit Guide, which answers a different question — "will a Kimbo fit my truck?" The comparison guides below answer the question that comes after that one: "is Kimbo the right choice, or should I look at something else?"
We're a hand-riveted aluminum hard-side built in Bellingham, Washington since 2016. We win on durability, four-season performance, and factory-direct service. We don't win on price (we're not the cheapest), pop-up profile (we're fixed-shell), or dealer convenience (we're factory-direct). The pages below are honest about all of that.
Pick your truck
Comparison guides we've published.
Don't see your truck? Check the Truck Fit Guide — we cover 30+ trucks there even when we haven't written a comparison guide yet.
Midsize Truck
Best Toyota Tacoma Camper
The Tacoma is the most-cross-shopped truck in the camper market. Here's how the options actually break down — by weight, by price, and by what you'll use the truck for.
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Half-Ton Truck
Best Ford F-150 Camper
The F-150 is the camper market's biggest stage — the widest range of options at every price point. Here's how to pick one that actually fits the way you'll use the truck.
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Half-Ton Truck
Best Toyota Tundra Camper
The Tundra has the payload of an F-150 with a tighter aftermarket. Here's how the camper market actually shapes up around it.
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Half-Ton Truck
Best Ram 1500 Camper
The Ram has more bed-length options than any other half-ton — and that's where the Ram camper conversation actually starts.
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Half-Ton Truck
Best Chevy Silverado 1500 Camper
The Silverado 1500 is the most under-served truck in the camper market — most listicles default to F-150 even though the Silverado has comparable payload. Here's the honest cross-shop.
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Midsize Truck
Best Ford Ranger Camper
The Ranger is the second most-popular midsize camper platform after the Tacoma — and the camper market for it is starting to catch up.
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Midsize Truck
Best Chevy Colorado Camper
The Colorado is the camper market's quiet midsize — most listicles ignore it in favor of Tacoma and Ranger. Here's the actual cross-shop.
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Midsize Truck
Best Jeep Gladiator Camper
The Gladiator camper market is its own thing — half rooftop-tent / shell category, half lightweight-only slide-ins. Here's the honest read.
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Talk to the team that built it
Cross-shopping and want a second opinion?
We'll tell you when Kimbo is the answer and when something else is. Direct line to the factory in Bellingham — no dealer middlemen.