Loveland Drew 18,500 and Possibly the Most Debuts the Series Has Seen
Three days at the foot of the Rockies, 300-plus exhibitors, and a run of new campers and platforms shown in public for the first time.
Overland Expo Mountain West ran August 21 to 23 at The Ranch in Loveland, Colorado, and pulled around 18,500 people past more than 300 exhibitors. Organisers reckon it may have set a record for the number of new products, rigs and vehicle platforms debuting at a single event in the series.
On the camper side, Supertramp debuted the Paragon for the F-350 platform, VanCraft showed the Strata with a flexible layout, and Four Wheel Campers had the new Outpost 8.0, the larger sibling of the 6.5 that showed up earlier in the summer.
The DIY Showcase remains the most interesting corner of the event, and this year's field included a K3500 with the wheelbase shortened by two feet, a kingpin Dana 60 up front, 40-inch tyres, and an aluminium flatbed and pop-up camper fabricated in-house down to the cabinetry and the poured countertops. Four hundred watts of solar and 300 amp-hours of lithium behind it.
A day pass ran $32. The show moves for 2027: August 20 to 22 at Riverdale Regional Park in Brighton, Colorado, which is a different venue rather than a different weekend.
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