Camco 51430 RV Ladder Chair Rack | Holds 4 Chairs

If you've ever loaded up the RV for a weekend and watched four folding camp chairs eat half your cargo bay, the Camco 51430 Clamp-N-Carry is the fix. It's a simple ladder-mounted rack that clamps onto the back of your rig and carries your chairs on the outside, right where you can grab them the second you pull into the site. No more digging through the pass-through. No more chairs sliding around on top of everything else.

The rack clamps directly to the rungs of a standard RV ladder. It fits most 1 inch and 7/8 inch diameter ladders, which covers the vast majority of rear-mounted RV and travel-trailer ladders out there. Two built-in straps cinch the chairs down tight so they ride flat against the ladder without bouncing or shifting on a rough road. We've seen folks white-knuckle every bump worried their gear's going to work loose. This holds it steady.

Camco built the body out of glass-filled nylon, which is the right material for something that lives outside full time. It shrugs off sun, rain, and road grime, and the UV inhibitors keep it from getting brittle and chalky after a couple of seasons baking in the sun. The mounting hardware is zinc plated, so it won't rust streaks down the back of your rig. This is gear you bolt on once and forget about.

Setup is about as easy as it gets. The clamps wrap around the ladder rungs and tighten down with the included hardware. No drilling, no permanent modification to the ladder. If you ever want to move it or pull it off for the winter, it comes right back off. Most folks have it mounted and loaded in under fifteen minutes the first time, and after that it's just a matter of stacking the chairs and throwing the straps over them.

It's rated to hold four or more standard folding camp chairs. Realistically that depends on how bulky your chairs are. Four typical quad-fold camp chairs sit comfortably. If you run the slimmer director-style chairs you can often stack a couple more. The bigger oversized chairs with the built-in coolers and footrests take up more room, so you might get three of those. Either way, it clears a real chunk of interior space.

Who's this for? Anybody who camps with a crew and hauls seating. Families, tailgaters, folks who set up a full campsite every weekend. It's equally at home on a Class A motorhome, a fifth wheel, or a bumper-pull travel trailer, as long as you've got a rear ladder to mount it to. And because the chairs ride outside, you free up the storage bay for the stuff that actually needs to stay dry and secure.

The reason we like external chair storage comes down to how you actually use the RV. Cargo bays fill up fast with the stuff you don't want to see on a rainy setup: the leveling blocks, the sewer kit, the tools, the extra propane. Chairs are bulky, light, and weatherproof already, so they're the perfect thing to move outside and free up that dry, lockable space for the gear that needs it. Once you've traveled a season with the chairs on the ladder, going back to cramming them inside feels like a step backward.

A couple of honest notes. This is a chair rack, not a cargo carrier, so don't try to strap a cooler or a generator to it. And it needs an actual RV ladder to mount to. If your rig doesn't have a rear ladder, this isn't the carrier for you. One thing to check before you order: measure your ladder rung diameter. If it's 1 inch or 7/8 inch round tube, you're good, and that's what the overwhelming majority of factory RV ladders use. Square or oversized rungs won't clamp correctly, so verify first. Everything else about this rack is about as foolproof as RV gear gets.