# Trailer Life

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{{Short description|Magazine that reviews recreational vehicles}}
{{Update|date=December 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| image_file        = Trailer Life September 2012 issue.jpg
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| frequency         = Monthly
| total_circulation = 213,839<ref>[http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/magform.asp AAM: Total Circ for Magazine Media]</ref>
| circulation_year  = 2011
| category          = [Travel](/source/Travel)
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| publisher         = [Good Sam Enterprises](/source/Good_Sam_Enterprises)
| firstdate         = July 1941
| country           = [United States](/source/United_States)
| based             = [Ventura, California](/source/Ventura%2C_California)
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| website           = [http://www.trailerlife.com/ trailerlife.com]
| issn              = 0041-0780
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'''''Trailer Life''''' was a [magazine](/source/magazine) that reviewed recreational vehicles, provided articles on travel trailers and towing as well a focus on the outdoors, recent trends and popular destinations.

==History==
''Trailer Life'' was founded in July 1941 as ''Western Trailer Life'', in [California](/source/California).<ref name=tlhist>"[http://www.trailerlife.com/output.cfm?ID=47179 Leading RV Magazine Celebrates 60th Anniversary]{{dead link |date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}" (press release). ''Trailer Life'', 2001-06-07.</ref>

In 1958, [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles) advertising executive Art Rouse purchased the magazine.<ref name=tlhist/><ref name=affhist>"[http://www.affinitygroup.com/history/history1.cfm History of Affinity] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414214741/http://www.affinitygroup.com/history/history1.cfm |date=April 14, 2010 }}". ''Affinity Group Inc.''</ref> In 1992, Trailer Life Enterprises became part of the umbrella company Affinity Group Inc., since renamed [Good Sam Enterprises](/source/Good_Sam_Enterprises).<ref name="affhist" />

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.trailerlife.com/ Official website]

Category:Tourism magazines
Category:Lifestyle magazines published in the United States
Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States
Category:Caravans and travel trailers
Category:Magazines established in 1941
Category:Magazines published in California
Category:Mass media in Ventura County, California

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