How much does a Jumping Jack trailer cost?

This is the whole page. A Jumping Jack is a folding tent trailer, and the number that travels from person to person is the deck: the flat off-road trailer before the tent folds off the top of it and before the kit that makes it worth owning goes on. That number is true about a trailer nobody camps in as it stands. At our defaults the deck is $7,000 and the tent-and-kit is $6,000, which puts the camper half within reach of the deck itself, and then freight and the plate land it at $15,300. None of the second half is hidden and none of it is exotic. It is just that the deck is the part that gets advertised and the tent and the options are the part you meet later, one line at a time, when the decision is already made. Adding them up before you order is the single most useful thing this page can do for you.

On a hard-sided towable the camper is the shell and you cannot un-buy it. On a folding tent trailer the deck would tow fine as a utility trailer, and the tent and the overland kit are bolted and zipped onto it, so they are genuine choices rather than a fixed price, and at our defaults they are $6,000 against a $7,000 deck. That is the part you have the most control over and the part that gets waved through, because each choice is small next to the deck and the sheet is long and nothing on it asks you to look at the running total. Total your own sheet before you order, and split it into what changes where the trailer can go and what changes how it looks parked, because both cost the same kind of money and only one of them is the reason you wanted the trailer. The tent in particular is a soft good with a life, so where you land on it also feeds the used-value question this page will not answer for you.

A built-to-order trailer is somewhere else until it is yours, and closing that distance costs money that the advertised figure leaves out because it does not look like part of the trailer, it looks like shipping. At our defaults that is $1,200, and it grows with distance and with the last stretch to your actual address rather than to the nearest city. The useful move is to get it quoted both ways: a delivery figure from the factory or a dealer, and your own cost to go and collect it as fuel, wear and any nights on the road. Hold one against the other, because neither is expensive or cheap on its own, each is expensive or cheap against the alternative. Whichever you choose, the number belongs on the ledger rather than folded into the deck, where it would disappear and stop being a thing you can shop.

They are also the two you would most like us to print, so it is worth saying plainly why they are absent. A built-to-order trailer means a wait, and the wait is genuinely part of what you are choosing, since it is the difference between owning one this season and owning one next. This page does not tell you how long it is, because we have not measured it and a made-up figure would be treated as a fact. Ask the factory, and ask when you order rather than when you enquire. Resale is the same story with more folklore attached, and a folding tent trailer adds a wrinkle: the tent is a soft good that wears while the deck and the running gear last, so a used one is really two ages in one trailer. Look up what your deck length and tent size, at the age you plan to sell, is actually selling for, use what buyers pay rather than what sellers ask, and treat the answer as being about your trailer rather than about the model in general.

The trailer itself is a factory quote against the deck length, the tent size and the options you tick, so this page leaves that figure to the factory rather than inventing one to stand in for it. What the page adds is the part the advertised deck price cannot show you, which is what it costs to have the rig you are picturing rather than a bare folding trailer. It is a tent trailer, so the tent and the overland kit that make it a camper are separate lines rather than baked into the shell, and then there is freight to get it to you, your state's tax and title, and a hitch if your vehicle is not ready. Put your figures into the form above and you get the landed total and how far it sits above the deck. At our defaults the deck is $7,000, the tent-and-kit is $6,000, and the landed figure is $15,300, which is worth knowing before you order rather than after.

Because the advertised price is the bare deck, and almost nobody camps in the bare deck. A Jumping Jack is a folding tent trailer: the flat off-road trailer tows fine on its own, and the tent that folds off the top of it plus the kit that makes it worth owning are configured on afterwards. So the number in the advert is true and it is also not about the trailer you are going to own. At our defaults the tent and the options come to $6,000 on top of a $7,000 deck, which is nearly the deck again, and then freight and the plate add more. Every one of those pieces is knowable before you order. Fill the boxes above with your own figures and you will have a landed number to compare against other people's advertised ones, which is the comparison that means something.

The honest answer is that it depends on where you plan to take it, which is why the page asks you to total your own sheet rather than handing you a list. The forks that move real money are the tent size, which sets how many sleep in it and is coupled to the deck length under it, and the off-road kit, which is the reason to buy this kind of trailer at all: a kitchen, bigger tyres and a lift for clearance, solar to camp away from a hookup, an awning, a spare and the racks for your toys. Each of those is small next to the deck, and that is the trap, because a long sheet of small choices adds up to a large number without any single line looking large. Sort your list into what changes where the trailer can go and what changes how it looks in the driveway, spend on the first before the second, and put the whole figure on the ledger now so the build has an honest finish line rather than a moving one.

A vehicle is not in the total, and unlike a larger towable that is often the right call rather than an omission, because a folding tent trailer packs down light and low, so the car on your driveway may well pull one. What that usually leaves is hardware rather than a vehicle: a hitch, the wiring for the lights and brakes, sometimes a controller in the cab, which is why there is a box for it above. Do not take the box as permission, though. Check it properly: take the loaded weight, which is heavier than what left the factory once the tent, the toys and your gear are on the deck, and compare that against your vehicle's tow rating as it is actually configured, which lives on the door jamb and in the manual rather than in the advertising. Check the tongue weight against payload separately, because the trailer presses down on the hitch and that weight is charged against payload rather than against the tow rating, and it is the limit that catches people out. If your vehicle does not clear it, then the honest price of the trailer includes changing vehicles, and that belongs in the decision even though it is not on this ledger.