Colorado Camper Van began its journey in 2009—

Just a wee sapling of an idea nestled in a Big Thompson Canyon garage, where what began as a personal challenge to build a better pop-top quickly turned into a full-blown business. Word of the new design spread and customers started to pile up. In 2012, the floods put a wrench in the growing business, stranding vans in the canyon, and cutting off access to the workshop. An effort to extract them went underway, navigating the vans through a 28-mile network of flooded dirt roads. The forced move and growing customer list inspired Derek’s decision to set up shop in a larger Loveland shop, which lasted until 2016 when CCV outgrew even that space. Colorado Camper Van now operates in a 14,000 sq. ft. Loveland, CO warehouse, far from its beginnings, but staying true to its homegrown roots.