Build a Stealthy Cargo Trailer Conversion and Camp Anywhere

Stealthiness is the ability to park undetected in unusual places. The simple white enclosed cargo trailer fits in almost anywhere. For an added touch, strap a ladder on top of your pickup and viola your an instant contractor, just waiting to start the next days work.

Mine was a 6'x10' plain white trailer, nothing special just your simple two wheel construction trailer designed to haul tools, help you move, or to be used in some commercial setting. After a bit of modifying mine had some special features that allowed me to live quite inconspicuously amongst the masses without detection.

Using very simple methods and inexpensive materials I converted this trailer into a comfortable hidden hideaway capable of housing two people very well. It was a project that evolved over time, starting in one configuration and after a rebuild becoming something more convenient.

When the rear door was opened and chained to the side, it revealed another wall with a normal width entry door. This second wall was framed up of 1-1/2x3 studs and sheeted with vertical siding fashioned from cheap cedar fence pickets that I sent through the planer to give them a smooth surface. With narrow lengths of the same fencing used to cover the seams it provided a very nice wall. The door was constructed and covered in a more decorative manner with cedar as well. The whole works was then coated with high gloss polyurethane, giving it quite the custom appearance.

The beauty of the whole thing was when you closed the cargo doors, it just looked like a standard cargo trailer. Nobody payed it any mind. Usually left in a storage facility, if it showed any resemblance to something of value it would be susceptible to vandalism. As it was, nobody ever messed with it.