Built from the ground up for 8 foot beds, which means you can finally close your tailgate on a camper of this size with these capabilities.
It is our second model and our biggest. Hard sided, four season, and completely propane free, built for three-quarter-ton trucks and larger. Inside there is a wet bath with a full height shower, 6′ 4″ of standing height, 40 gallons of fresh water, and a 48v power system that will keep you out well past the weekend. And like every Outpost, it comes off your truck in minutes when you need your bed back.
Why we built it
We started Outpost Campers in Southwest Colorado with one camper and one idea: build the most capable truck camper on the market and sell it at a great value. That camper was the Outpost 6.5, it went on to win 2026 Truck Camper of the Year, 2025 Hardsided Camper of the Year, and more than 200 of them have now rolled out of our shop in Bayfield.
And at every single expo we pulled into, somebody walked up to the 6.5, looked at it for a while, and asked the same question.
“Do you make a bigger one?”
For two years the honest answer was no.
But behind the shop doors, we have been designing, building, testing and tweaking our prototype model. We took our show rig around to events and got feedback directly from you all.
The result is a camper designed and tested from the ground up around the 8 foot bed, adding the space and the functionality people had been asking for without giving up one thing that makes an Outpost an Outpost. A true four season camper. Light enough that your truck still drives like a truck. Built to get you where other campers turn around.
Today the wait is over. This is the Outpost 8.0.
What Your Get
A real bathroom
An interior wet bath with a full height shower and a detachable fixture, a fixed cassette toilet with a rear access hatch so you are never carrying anything through your kitchen, and a sliding translucent door. Grey and black tanks are internal.
Room to actually stand up
6′ 4″ of interior standing height, so you are not cooking dinner hunched over like you are apologizing to the ceiling. A north/south queen in the cabover with side storage hatches, in-floor storage, and a dinette with a Lagun table that swings out of the way, converts to a roughly twin size second bed, and drops into couch mode when you just want to sit.
Water for the long way around
40 gallons of fresh, a 20 gallon grey tank, and a 5 gallon cassette for black. Double the fresh water of the 6.5, which is the difference between planning your trip around resupply and planning it around where you actually want to be.
Power that keeps up
An EcoFlow 48v Independence Kit with a 5kWh LiFePO4 battery standard, upgradeable to 10kWh. 500 watt rooftop solar array standard and prewired for an external solar port if you want to pair it with a fold out panel. It recharges three ways: solar, your alternator, and shore power.
No propane. Not as a delete, as a design decision. Nothing to fill, nothing to weigh against your payload, and nothing to hunt down at 6pm on a Sunday three hours from the nearest town.
Four seasons, not four season marketing
Heat and hot water from a Truma Combi D Comfort Plus. Cooling from a 48v Velit air conditioner over the dinette and bed, a Maxxair Deluxe fan in the hallway, and a Maxxair Dome fan in the bathroom. All of it wrapped in the same composite shell and thermal-break construction that made the 6.5 genuinely comfortable at fifteen below.
On your truck
1,965 lbs dry, or roughly 2,300 lbs with the fresh water tank full. An internal tie down system with a new port hole design for reaching the forward tie downs, and the ability to close your tailgate on an 8′ long bed.
Driving a standard bed? It still works with the tailgate down or removed, because we put the heaviest components as low and as far forward as we could, resulting in a center of gravity of 24″ from the front wall.
Add it on if you want it
48v air conditioner, MOLLE panels, a rear ladder, a roof rack, portable solar, and a second 5kWh battery. The list is shorter than the 6.5 list on purpose. Part of that is because the 8.0 is brand new, and part of it is because several of the most popular 6.5 upgrades are simply built into this one.
How the Outpost 8.0 Differs From the Outpost 6.5
The short version: the 8.0 trades truck flexibility for living space. Here are the key differences between the models in their standard builds.
- Truck class. The 6.5 fits some half-tons and larger. The 8.0 is built for three-quarter-ton trucks and larger.
- Bed length. The 6.5 closes the tailgate on a 6′ 6″ bed. The 8.0 needs an 8′ bed to close the tailgate. Both work on shorter beds with the tailgate down or removed.
- Dry weight. Roughly 1,560 lbs for the 6.5. Roughly 1,965 lbs for the 8.0.
- Bathroom. The 6.5 uses a removable cassette toilet with an optional indoor shower enclosure. The 8.0 has an interior wet bath with a full height shower.
- Water. 20 gallons fresh on the 6.5. 40 gallons fresh plus a 20 gallon grey tank on the 8.0.
- Sleeping. Both have a cabover queen. The 8.0 adds a convertible dinette for a second sleeping space.
- Power. Both start with a 5kWh LFP system. The 8.0 can be upgraded to 10kWh.
- Solar. 250 watts rooftop standard on the 6.5. 500 watts standard on the 8.0.
- Price. The 6.5 starts at $41,995. The 8.0 starts at $57,995.
How to order one
Reserving an Outpost 8.0 works the same way it does for the 6.5. You place a deposit to hold a production spot, finalize your build a few weeks before it heads into the shop, and pay the balance before you take delivery. No mystery fees, no markup games, and a real person in Bayfield on the other end of every email.
Three Ways to Get to Know It Better
Watch it. Taylor walks through every inch of the Outpost 8.0 in the full tour video. The layout, the 48v system, the wet bath, the storage, and why the whole camper is built around an 8 foot bed.
Read about it. We gave Truck Camper Magazine an exclusive first look before anyone else got near it. They have covered this industry a long time and they do not hand out compliments for free.
Stand in it. Come see it in person. Our shop is in Bayfield, Colorado, and you are welcome to stop in, open the cabinets, sit at the dinette, and ask the crew who builds these why everything is where it is. We also take the campers on the road for expos and events throughout the year, including Overland Expo Mountain West in Loveland, August 21-23, booth C-136.
Ready to Reserve?
We are a small crew in Southwest Colorado who camp in what we build. The Outpost 8.0 took two years and a whole lot of “do you make a bigger one” to get here, and the first ones are going out this fall.