Cape York is one of those absolute dream 4WDing and camping destinations that appears on just about every Aussie camping bucket-list ever written! And why wouldn’t it – it’s the perfect mix of tough 4WDing, stunning scenery and natural beauty, and incredible camping opportunities. One of the most common questions we hear about Cape York is whether you can take an offroad camper trailer to Cape York, and whether you’ll have a good time or whether you’ll spend most of the time doing 4WD recoveries. Here’s the plain truth, spoken from years of experience – YES, you definitely can take your hard floor camper trailer or soft floor camper trailer to Cape York. You can even take a hybrid caravan if you’re game!

The truth is that while there are lots of videos online of places like Gunshot Creek and Palm Creek showing vehicles massively bogged, that’s only a very small percentage of the 4WDing you’ll experience up in Cape York. The rest is mostly dirt roads, and even the Old Tele Track and the Frenchman’s Track are long bits of high-range 4WDing punctuated by short, challenging river crossings. Assuming that the offroad camper trailer you’re towing is designed to suit proper offroading, and assuming that you’ve prepped your tow vehicle well with a 4WD winch, 4WD recovery gear, and the right offroad toolkit, there’s no reason why you an offroad camper trailer will hold you back up in the Cape!

Here’s the clincher though. Not only should you have your 4×4 winch and 4×4 recovery gear, you need to know how to use it. That’s where the Adventure Kings Youtube Channel comes into play – we’ve filled it with heaps of videos that show you both the basics of 4WD recoveries and even advanced 4WD recovery tricks. If you commit this information to mind and most importantly go out and put it into practice before you head for Cape York, you’ll feel so much more confident in tackling those dream offroad tracks like the Tele Track.

Soft floor camper trailers and hard floor camper trailers can both definitely be taken to Cape York, but as we mentioned a moment ago, they need to be properly designed to suit real offroading. There’s a huge difference between a genuine offroad camper trailer and one that’s been designed to look like an offroad camper trailer. It’s immediately obvious when you look at the trailer’s suspension – does it have enough clearance, and is it easy to tow? What about its offroad clearances and angles?

The Adventure Kings MT1 Go-Anywhere Camper Trailer has been designed to genuinely be able to be towed anywhere you want to go. It has incredible ground clearance which means it won’t get hung up on tough tracks. It has huge, highly capable suspension underneath that allows it to eat up the tracks. In fact the best thing about the Kings MT1 Camper Trailer is that it’s not the limiting factor in where you can go – it’ll go anywhere you want to point your tow-rig!

But what about if you aren’t interested in getting your new hard floor camper trailer dirty and scratched up? Could you take a forward fold camper trailer to Cape York without risking denting it? What if the Telegraph Track and Frenchman’s Track type of 4WDing isn’t your thing?

That’s the really beaut thing about Cape York – it is only as challenging as you make it! The Peninsula Development Road runs right up through the middle of Cape York, and is in fact a high-range dirt 4WD highway that you could drive in a Corolla if you wanted to! That means there’s plenty of options for towing a hybrid caravan or an offroad camper trailer all the way to the tip of Australia without having to ever put your vehicle in low-range, or in fact without needing to have a 4WD at all in reality. The one thing that we highly recommend is that whatever your tow-vehicle and offroad camper trailer are, they’re fitted with good tyres. They don’t need to be AS tough as the MT1 Camper Trailer’s 265/75R16 mud terrain tyres, but they should at least be a Light Truck construction-type All Terrain tyre – and you should have a matching spare tyre for both your soft floor camper trailer or hard floor camper trailer, as well as your tow rig. Tyre blow-outs are the #1 leading cause of breakdowns up in the Cape, because the tracks are tough and rocky.

The biggest thing you want out of an offroad camper trailer in Cape York, whether you plan on tackling the tough low-range tracks or not, is a trailer that is easy to setup! Because the Cape is such an amazing place, you’ll want to move camps every day or two at the most, and do a lot of travelling during the day. That means often you’ll pull up at camp later in the day, and when you do, you’ll want to get setup quickly – so a camper trailer that’s easy to setup like the Kings MT1 Camper Trailer is incredibly vital!

And you’ll thank yourself the next day when it only takes 10 minutes to be packed back up and hitting the road again, especially if you’ve got a fair bit of ground to cover before your next campsite. Remember these three key things – to take your hard floor camper trailer or soft floor camper trailer to Cape York, make sure that it is a genuine offroad camper trailer, that it’s easy to tow and that it’s easy to setup – just like the Adventure Kings MT1 Camper Trailer. Do that, and you’re guaranteed to have the time of your life!