Building a Compact Camping Trailer – The Explorer Box
The Explorer Box has been designed as a straight forward, DIY friendly compact camping trailer. Plans include full dimension drawings, material list, building notes and material suggestions. Many DIY-ers will begin their trailer build with a bolt-together frame kit, although most 4’ x 6’ flat bed trailers are a suitable starting point. We also have welded frames available.
At the heart of the Explorer Box Compact Camping Trailer is its plywood based trailer box. Using plywood, waterproof glue and a few screws it’s easy to create a durable, attractive, lightweight trailer box. We use a combination of plywood types.
Exterior Finish 
To begin, for the exterior we prefer using quality marine grade Okoume plywood, for its weight and strength advantages.
It’s also more attractive and takes a finish better that standard plywood.