The Camper

The Fleetwood/Coleman Saratoga (and Niagara/Avalon highwalls too) come with a high-pressure propane port on the frame rail, already plumbed up to the front bulk tanks. The intended use of this port is the high-pressure stove that's mounted on the side of the camper.

Maybe I'm a bit slow, but it took me a while to realize that this port is the exact same 1x20 connection that the little green portable propane bottles have. This is cool: Basically you have an 'endless' little-green-bottle on the side of your camper! You can use accessories or adapters designed for these bottles to supply propane to your other devices.

The Stove

In my case, I have a Camp Chef stove. A carry-over from our tent camping days, we've found it to be a wonderful way to bring both a camp stove for cooking and a nice BBQ with a cast-iron grill. Currently we have their two-burner stove, model EX60LW with a grill box, model BB100L. The grill covers one burner on the stove. This setup was perfect for tent camping, but now that we have the popup with built-in stoves, I also purchased Camp Chef's single-burner model instead (shown in photo), to cut down on size & weight. It's perfect for the trailer, the whole thing stows neatly under the dinette with plenty of room left over.

The Connections

Back to the propane connection: The stove is designed to connect to a bulk tank, and comes with a regulated hose for this purpose. To adapt the stove to the camper, I purchased a "Second Chance Adapter", which is intended to allow you to connect to a little green propane tank. This, and an extension hose (also with 1x20 connectors), allows me to connect the Camp Chef stove to the trailer and also have some freedom of movement for grill placement.

Third, a brass "Add-A-Tee" fitting, made by Marshall, allows me to split the connection and use both the grill and the camper's outside stove at the same time.

Here are the components:

And here is the whole setup, ready to go: