I live in the PNW, and 98% of the time I drive on paved roads. However, the other 2% of time I am hauling my trailer and parking in a wet field somewhere. My truck has 4x4 and currently has all terrain tires on it and I’ve never gotten stuck. I need to replace them and am wondering if I should put new A/T tires or if an all season with a mud & snow rating is going to be good enough.
This has never happened to me, but I imagine getting stuck in a wet field with your horse in the trailer is not somewhere you ever want to be.
That said - if there are always bigger trucks around to pull you out, maybe it doesn’t matter? 🤷
I often drive/haul a travel trailer in the snow so I have A/Ts (F350 4x4), but I think I’d have them even without the snow. My rig is heavy and I never want to have to wonder.
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I have A/Ts on my truck, Open Terrain by Les Schwab I think, and they are great. I appreciate them when I need them, I dump my manure in a dump trailer in a field at a friend’s place that can get slick, nasty, deep, in the winter depending on the weather and I’m also having to jerk the trailer around to get the poo out, so those tires have been a saver even with the 4x. The few times I’ve had snow up here, same.
I’d just get them.
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I’ve only ever had all-seasons on my truck and it’s worked just fine for me. My dad has all terrains and I’ve managed to get both trucks stuck in the same mucky or snowy conditions. I think all terrains really outperform all seasons on rocky terrain where the tire needs to grab rough rocks. If you’re not frequently rocky, rough terrain, all seasons should be fine. But in snowy conditions, winter tires are far superior to all seasons and all terrains.
Just for education’s sake 
The tires I listed about are also winter tires, if OP is considering that. I don’t know where in the PNW she is, I’m also PNW but we get less snow than other places.
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our four wheel drive pickup has a front winch just in case its needed, in the years it has been in place it only has been used a few times.
When I worked for a saddlehorse farm while in college OFTEN trucks and tow vehicles were trapped on wet grass parking as the shows extended into the night, but usually they had a tractor to pull everything out to solid pavement
