This Is the 2025 Aspen Trail: The Travel Trailer With a Huge, Patent-Pending Surprise

Based in Indiana, Dutchmen RV was founded in 1988 and, in the space of just a couple of years, was able to become the second-largest manufacturer of travel trailers and fifth wheels in North America. It was acquired by Thor Industries just one year later, and continued to diversify its range of affordable, high-quality, and versatile towables, be they fifth-wheelers or travel trailers.

The latest addition to the company's lineup is a good example of the kind of work Dutchmen puts in to stand out amid growing competition. It's an Aspen Trail travel trailer and, as of this writing, it's the only one of its kind in the sense that it's the only one to boast not one but two surprise features that also happen to be patent-pending future Dutchmen staples.

The Aspen Trail line of travel trailers is designed to offer affordable, lightweight, and good-quality RVs to customers traveling with larger parties, whether family members or pals sharing the same interest in hunting, fishing, or any other similar hobby. Aspen Trail models like the 19RB, 23BH, 26RL, or 2880RKS are particularly popular and with good reason: they walk the fine line between affordability and premium quality, and offer versatile layouts that meet a variety of needs.

As of earlier this month, the latest Aspen Trail travel trailer is the 3200, which is so brand new that the full list of specs hasn't even been made public yet. Dealers are advertising it, but only as an "on order" item that is pending delivery. The video tour available at the bottom of the page was filmed at the Dutchmen factory, and offers a comprehensive look at what makes it such a notable product.

Measuring 36 feet (11 meters) in total length and with a gross weight of 8,000 lbs (3,629 kg), the dual-axle Aspen Trail 3200 is designed as a proper mobile home for four people, though you wouldn't be able to tell at first sight. Because of its relatively compact footprint and out of the desire to offer as much usable space during the day, this travel trailer hides the second bedroom in plain sight, thanks to a patent-pending feature that's bound to become a Dutchmen staple.

In simpler words, it puts a Murphy bed in the living room behind a fake wall that lifts up. During the day, you can use the space as a living room, so you have theater seats facing a large-screen TV mounted on the wall, with a fireplace underneath. At night, the section of the wall holding the TV lifts up, and the lower part drops down to reveal the bed, which gets its own folding legs for support.

This means that the fireplace tucks under the bed at night, which also means that you won't be able to heat up the place because there's an automatic kill switch that prevents you from using it when it's in this position. But what you save up in space is probably meant to make up for this inconvenience, together with the two AC units inside.

The other big surprise about the Aspen Trail 3200 is a wraparound decking that takes up the rear end. "Wraparound" is a misnomer since the deck only has two sides, but this is how Dutchmen describes it. Plus, it does feel much bigger because it's affixed to a travel trailer.

This terrace offers sheltered entertaining space, as well as a three-barstool bar that connects to the kitchen through a large awning window, allowing it to double as an outdoor dining space. It also has exterior speakers, power outlets, and mood lighting, so it can efficiently work as the highlight of the unit at camp – the life of the party, as it were.

The interior is just as nice, in that way that all Dutchmen towables are: a nice blend of durable but affordable materials, with all the necessary appliances, and modern styling.

The 3200 has one big slide-out that holds half of the kitchen and the theater seats, and that too creates even more living space at camp. The kitchen is located at the back of the trailer, while the main bedroom is at the other end.

Because of the large terrace, there's no proper dining area inside, but the coffee table in front of the theater seats can lift up and double as a TV dinner table or a desk for home working – if you're the kind that brings work on vacation, that is.

The bathroom serves as divider between the bedroom and the rest of the habitat, and is itself divided in three sections. You have a shower cubicle on one side and a toilet area right next to it, and the sink with vanity and the laundry station on the other. From what we can make from the video tour, you get a sliding door for the toilet, which leaves the rest of the bathroom usable even when someone's in there doing a number 2.

The Aspen Trail 3200 comes with dual entries, with the second in the bedroom, doubling as an emergency escape. It has automatic support legs, a large manual awning on one side, a pass-through garage in the front, and powered jack.

Nominated for RV of the Year for its segment, the 2025 Aspen Trail 3200 is available for orders for around $37,000, but there's no word yet on when deliveries might kick off.