Why Bean
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Trailers We Would Own Ourselves
Bean builds thoughtfully designed, exceptionally durable trailers that invite people to go further and lets them focus on the people, places, and memories that make the journey matter.
Bean Trailer’s story began when two outdoor enthusiasts, frustrated by the flimsy, run-of-the-mill options available, decided to craft their ideal trailer with quality, durability, and a minimalist style in mind. They wanted to design a trailer that is ready to hit the open road, one they can be confident will handle any off-road adventure they set their minds to. This passion project is at the heart of Bean Trailer’s operations today. Each trailer is curated with the adventurer in mind, creating a luxury experience in the most remote, off-road destinations.
Mark and Brian designed trailers they would gladly take home themselves and solved various issues they saw in the current market. With thirty years of experience in the fiberglass industry, they took their expertise and knowledge to innovating the teardrop trailer market. Bean Trailers are created with a molded, one-piece fiberglass shell*, eliminating leaks by molding the roof and walls together. We believe in the quality of our design, and we support this by providing a lifetime structural warranty for each fiberglass shell for as long as you own it.
*The one-piece molded shell is not available on Bean Squared and Bean Pod, which are built and warranted on their own construction.
Innovation Without Compromise
Every industry moves with the seasons, and every hard season asks the same question: what will you give up? Most builders answer by sacrificing materials and quality. We answer with our imagination. When the market changes, we redesign the way a Bean is built, never the foundation and quality of the Bean itself. We build lifelong adventure partners, and that quality will never waver with the seasons.
Bean Stock 2.0 was our answer to a changing teardrop trailer market. Mark said, “We had to go into a market which was a consumer-oriented [and] we had a lot of confidence that we could design something that the market would accept.” A trailer light enough for a small SUV, built to the same rule as our flagship trailers. The standard did not move. Bean Trailer adapted to its market without sacrificing quality.
What We Build By
Quality
Every fiberglass Bean begins with a shell molded in one piece, and everything that follows honors it: composite walls and floors, double-paned windows, soft-touch interiors, birch cabinetry in grain-matched laminates. When costs rise, we redesign the process. The trailer stays the trailer.
Adventure
We build for the miles after the pavement ends. Ordinary trailers fail there first, quietly, at the seams, where water works into plywood and glue. A Bean Trailer gives water nowhere to start: one seamless shell, finished in a marine-grade gelcoat deep enough to polish away years of hard use. Go where the road gives out with an adventure partner that can handle the terrain.
Craftsmanship
Each Bean is built by hand, not by the thousands. In Salt Lake City, people who have spent thirty years working fiberglass match laminates grain to grain, fit cabinetry like furniture, and shape a cabin with 54.5 inches of headroom in a category that settles for four feet. Utah named the result its Coolest Thing Made in Utah in 2019, and named us Manufacturer of the Year in 2020. The award we keep chasing is simpler: a cabin that feels like home.
Adaptation
When the market turns, we get more inventive, not less careful. The galley became modular. The hatch became a window and open space. The dry weight came down to 1,200 pounds without touching the shell or the standard behind it. That is what innovation means here: the specification survives the price.
Community
The trailer is the beginning, not the point. Owning a Bean brings you into a company of explorers who trade routes, rallies, and hard-earned advice, with a service team that answers for as long as you travel. How our trailers are built is written in the warranty. Why our owners stay, they will tell you themselves.
Every Fiberglass Roof Will Never Leak. We Guarantee It.
Every fiberglass-shell Bean comes with our Lifetime Structural Warranty: frame, one-piece shell, composite walls, and floor, covered for as long as you own it.
Water damage is the silent killer of trailers, so our Limited Lifetime Roofline Warranty keeps the molded roof-to-wall transition watertight for life*. A 1-Year Limited Manufacturing Warranty covers the details.
Bottom line: Every Bean is designed to be owned for a lifetime. Our fiberglass trailers hold a limited lifetime warranty.
*Bean Squared and Bean Pod do not feature a one-piece molded fiberglass shell and are excluded from the Roofline Warranty.
Craftsmanship You Can Measure
30 Years of Fiberglass Experience
We set ourselves apart by molding the entire shell, side walls and roof, as one piece of fiberglass. No more leaky nights, up to 12” more headroom, and a thick marine-grade gelcoat so deep you can buff out the scratches of normal wear and tear.
Fewer Seams, Seems Obvious
Owners of conventional trailers know the pattern: leaks, dry rot, and mold, all of it beginning at the seam between roof and side panels. A seam that does not exist cannot leak. Your Bean will never have one.
Take Someone Else’s Word for It
How Much Room Does the Cabin Have?
Meet Steven, our 6’7” welder
Traditional teardrops are stuck with 4′ side walls, the standard sheet size of aluminum. A one-piece fiberglass shell is not. Steven stands 6’7”, and he camps in a Bean comfortably.
There Is Something About Bean
Manufacturer of the Year
The Utah Manufacturers Association named Bean Trailer the state’s 2020 Manufacturer of the Year, one year after Coolest Thing Made in Utah.
Coolest Thing Made in Utah
From 222 nominations, through the Top 25, Top 10 and Final 3, the public voted Bean Trailer the 2019 Coolest Thing Made in Utah.
The Case for Fiberglass
Fiberglass is made from glass, and glass from sand: an abundant, non-depleting resource with very low embodied energy. Aluminum extraction, by contrast, consumes an estimated 3% of the world’s energy supply. And because fiberglass trailers outlast aluminum ones, they spend more years on the road and fewer in a landfill.