My plan is to take my youngster to 2 day Mountain Trail Clinic in June and I will be sleeping in my goose neck tack room. I have a 2 horse straight pull with a small tack room. What are your best tips or cheap “make it like home” ideas for camping without a living quarters trailer?
Don’t know if you’re female but if so get a “Lugable Loo” - it’s a plastic toilet seat and lid (Amazon sells) that snaps on to a 5-gallon bucket you can buy locally. Put a kitchen trash bag in, then some kitty litter or horse shavings and you’ve got a great “'no stumbling around outside in the dark” facility in your TR for middle of the night pees. End of trip? Remove bag and toss in a dumpster. I usually camp at places with bathhouses or at least porta-potties but the Loo is great for the middle of the night.
Also headlamp flashlight, battery operated reading light and alarm clock, cooler with some frozen water bottles put in to keep things cold. If your trailer is steel get some strong magnets to hang needed paperwork on walls (schedules,etc.). Also can use to hang piece of cloth - small lightweight throw works well - as curtain over a TR window if you have one.
You’ll probably be warm in June but if there’s a chance of cold nights, bring some hand warmers for your hands and feet.
I ALWAYS have my Luggable Loo in my trailer. It is a toilet seat with a hinged lid that snaps onto the included bucket. I use pine bedding pellets in it. This is a great, cheap and easy portable toilet.
Lights, you need light inside your dressing room and light that you don’t have to hold. A good led head lamp is handy, especially for reading in bed. Then you need a smallish led lantern that you can hang up or stick up led puck type lights.
When I had to make do with a small dressing room I made sure to take a saddle rack along and once I set up camp I moved saddle and large horse items to the horse area of the trailer to givr me more space in the dressing room. I have a pop-up awning with a couple of attachable sides. Set this up just outside your dressing room door and you can add a small table to make a kitchen area. I have a camp stove and galvanized metal bucket that I can heat water in. Love having a dishpan of hot water to wash with. No cold water sponge baths for me! I now have a huge dressing room but never spent the big bucks for an LQ. I also have a Buddy heater, got rid of the biggest model, kept breaking apart, use the medium, single canister model for heat while inside and awake. It really helps make cold weather camping bearable.
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All of the above is good. I use a solar shower myself, let it heat in the sunlight and shower in the back of the trailer. When I had a two horse w/o tack room, I would set up my cot in one of the stalls, but these days I am spoiled, ordered up a fold down cot for my now 3 yo Logan, and Hi Tie arms on the driver’s side of the trailer for the horses. My tack room is insulated and so far I’ve not needed any supplemental heat over and above the sleeping bag.
And actually, if it’s a nice summer night, I’m not above pitching a portable cot and sleeping under the stars (if there aren’t too many late night partiers in camp!).
I have a weekender, so I’m a tiny bit spoiled.
If you have access to electricity, you can run an extension cord for a heater or light, or whatever is most important to you.
I love my LED lantern with rechargeable battery. It’s really bright.
My trailer has water, but one of those 5 gallon water carriers with a spigot would be nice.
The “Horse Trailer Conversion” group on FB is quite popular, and while most are converting an aspect of their trailers to a weekender or LQ, many do temporary/cheap configurations to make things easy to camp. Could be worth checking out 
I also have something similar to the Luggable Loo in my trailer. I sleep in the back of my two horse (horse area). I clean poop out, lay down a tarp and then a rug runner(cheap from Walmart ). I put the divider over to the side and set up a cot and make it up with sheets and blankets because I sleep better this way. I have a solar shower bag that I lay in the bed of the truck during the day to heat. I purchased a shower tent from Walmart(around $30). It’s great because it has a place to hang your towel, a place to put your shampoo, body wash. I always keep some hot hands warmers in my truck and trailer for those times when the temp dips lower than you planned.
I tow a small two horse and camp in the back of my truck, but enough is similar! One thing I like to do is have a great thermos. I heat water up the night before on a single-burner propane stove, and then fill the thermos. I love to not have to heat water in the morning, and I pour a little hot water on a face washcloth in the morning, which feels great. Then I make a cup of tea! Or some hot cereal. On cold mornings it is great and gets me going.
I also have one of those portable jump starters for the truck. True, you can jump start, but you can also plug in your phone or a small light, which is convenient in the trailer.
On a horse note I like to make sure they’re always wearing ID. I made some reflective horse collars that I can write my phone number on (I also have ID tags on my halter, bridle, etc). As we know horses will find a way to do something stupid, and if they break of of whatever confinement, I want to have help finding them!
Have fun camping!
Amazing wealth of info on this older thread: http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?36502-Outfitting-New-Trailer-What-Can-t-You-Live-Without
