Four Wheel Campers · Truck Camper · 2027

Four Wheel Campers Hawk

Pop-up roof, welded aluminum frame and a fit for full-size trucks with a 6-foot to 6'7" bed: the Hawk is Four Wheel Campers' standard slide-in for full-size pickups. It comes as a bare shell or a full camper in front-dinette or roll-over-couch layouts, with the furnace, water heater, solar and lithium all optional.

Approx. price: ~$30,675; maker starting price
Length: 10.7 ft
Sleeps: 2

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Specifications

Size

Exterior length: 10.7 ft
Exterior height: 5 ft
Sleeps: 2
Slide-outs: 0

Tanks and power

Fresh water: 20 gal
Factory solar: None

Standard equipment named by the maker

Pop-up slide-in; maker: 'Fits Full-Size Trucks with 6.0' - 6'7" Bed'
Welded aluminum frame, aluminum siding, one-piece aluminum roof
Pop-up roof: 6'6" interior height popped up
20 gal fresh water; two 2.5 gal propane
Sold as a base shell or a full camper; front-dinette and roll-over-couch floorplans
Options on build & price: furnace, water heater, solar, lithium

What owners report

Drawn from 12 owners' accounts of the Four Wheel Campers Hawk, mostly 2014–2024 units. It covers the whole Four Wheel Campers Hawk line, not only this floorplan. Nobody here has camped in it; this is what people who bought one say.

Real weights owners give run from about 700 lb dry for one 2014 Hawk and 845 lb for a side-dinette shell to 1,200 lb for another build and roughly 1,600 lb for one on a 2024 Chevy 2500, which is why the truck matters more than the camper. An F-150 with the heavy-duty payload package carries a 1,500 lb Hawk level on stock suspension, and a side-dinette shell owner has done 80,000 miles on a truck with heavier Old Man Emu leaves. Other half-ton owners were less happy: one hated how it handled, another found an F-150 workable but not enjoyable after a 3/4-ton, and the 700 lb 2014 Hawk squats a Tundra on stock Bilsteins two inches.

Cold weather is manageable with care. An owner without the insulation pack camps in single digits in ski gear but has to leave a roof fan and a lower door cracked or ice coats everything inside. A couple with over 250 mid-winter nights in an older 2014 Hawk uses the thermal liner and a diesel heater, whose drier air helps, and has been comfortable to -15°F.

Space is the other trade-off: one shell owner has no built-in storage and finds the camper a mess by morning, a family of three found it cramped, and one former owner could not use the bed for anything else and found taking it on and off a huge annoyance.

What owners like

+Light enough for well-equipped half-tons and easy for 3/4-tons, with owners running Hawks on a Tundra, an F-150 with the payload package and a Ram 2500.
+The pop-top keeps the rig low and nimble on rough backcountry roads compared with vans and hard-side campers, which is why owners chose it.
+With the thermal liner and good heat it handles winter, from single-digit nights to over 250 mid-winter nights by one ski-touring couple.

Common complaints

−Winter moisture takes managing: one owner must vent overnight or ice coats everything inside, and another switched to a diesel heater for its drier air than the stock propane furnace.
−Shell models have no built-in storage and fill up fast, and three people is cramped.
−Handling on half-ton trucks disappoints some owners, with squat on stock suspension and a ride one owner hated.

Questions owners ask

Will a Hawk work on a half-ton pickup?+

It can. A Tundra owner with an 1,850 lb payload rating carries a 1,200 lb Hawk plus gear, and an F-150 with the heavy-duty payload package sits about level on stock suspension with a 1,500 lb Hawk. A Tundra owner advises keeping the loaded camper under about 1,000 lb on a half-ton without suspension upgrades, and another owner who moved from an F-250 found the F-150 workable but not enjoyable.

Weights

2027 maker figures

Dry weight: 1,200 lb
Counts against: your truck's payload

What these weights mean →

Size, to scale

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Four Wheel Campers Hawk · 10.7 ft long · 5′ 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.