Escape 19

Sleeping five on a single axle, the Escape 19 is the mid-size model of the range, a 7-foot-wide fiberglass trailer offered in two floorplans, F1 and F2. The listed price of around $40,000 came during a promotion and may not hold.

Approx. price: ~$40,499; maker starting price
Length: 19.5 ft
Sleeps: 5

Specifications

Size

Exterior length: 19.5 ft
Exterior height: 8.8 ft
Sleeps: 5
Slide-outs: 0

Tanks and power

Fresh water: 28 gal
Gray water: 28 gal
Black water: 13.2 gal
Factory solar: None

Standard equipment named by the maker

Molded fiberglass, single axle, 7' wide
Two floorplans (F1, F2)
Two 20 lb LP tanks
Height 8'10" is to top of an open MaxxFan

What owners report

Drawn from 6 owners' accounts of the Escape 19, mostly 2018–2025 units. Nobody here has camped in it; this is what people who bought one say.

Headroom decides it for tall buyers. A 6-foot-2 owner chose the 19 over a Casita because its roof clears 6 feet 3 inches, where Scamps and Casitas topped out around 6 feet 2, and because it has a true queen bed; the couple tows it with a 2015 Highlander and says it does great. A six-year owner calls it the smallest fiberglass trailer they could find with a permanent queen, separate dinette, bathroom and full-size fridge.

The same bed is the main complaint. One owner sold a factory-ordered 19 after four years because the crawl-over bed got old, though they sold it for $4,000 more than they paid and report no leaks or breakage. A full-timer moved on to a Bigfoot after a few months because it felt cramped for two and they wanted better cold-weather performance.

Owners who came from stick-built trailers like the one-piece fiberglass shell for its few seams, and one couple liked buying direct from the factory and talking to the people who built their trailer.

What owners like

+Interior height and a real queen bed make it work for owners over 6 feet tall.
+It is light enough for owners to tow with a Highlander and many three-row SUVs.
+Owners who left leaky stick-built trailers chose the fiberglass shell for its few seams, and one reports no leaks and nothing broken in four years.

Common complaints

−The crawl-over bed and tight interior wore on couples, especially full-timers.
−Owners hit small hardware and wiring quirks, from a step nut working loose to a DC-to-DC charger that pulled too much from the tow vehicle wiring.

Questions owners ask

How cold can an Escape 19 handle?+

An owner with the insulation and tank heater pads found it fine at 20°F and acceptable at 10°F, but it struggled below that. The dump valves were exposed enough that they added RV antifreeze to the tanks after dumping to keep them from freezing.

Weights

Maker figures

Dry weight (UVW): 3,150 lb
GVWR: 4,400 lb
Hitch weight, dry: 306 lb
Cargo capacity (CCC): not published

1,250 lb between brochure dry weight and GVWR. Water (8.3 lb a gallon), food, gear, propane and dealer-added options all come out of it.

What these weights mean →

Size, to scale

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Escape 19 · 19.5 ft long · 8′10″ tall

Drawn to one scale from each camper's listed length and, where the maker publishes it, its exterior height. Outlines are typical for the camper type, not traced from this model. The figure is a 6 ft person. The dashed blue line is 25 ft, the length about 93% of national park campgrounds accept.