Rove Overland and the Can-Am Commander
Overland trailers are designed around full-size trucks. Rove Overland and Wild Latitude are building a micro overlander sized to what a Can-Am Commander can tow, so camp can follow the machine past where the truck stops.
Our newest partnership, and the most ambitious yet. Rove Overland is building the trailer, our Can-Am Commander is towing it, and we are taking it out to find what breaks.
Can-Am Commander Towing Limits and Trailer Size
Off-road trailers are sized to sit behind a truck, because that is where most of them are towed. A side-by-side has its own limits, and a trailer built for the Commander has to start from them.
Can-Am Commander XT-P
The machine towing itRove Recon X
Rove’s trailer for trucks and JeepsSide by side, the numbers explain the project. A loaded Recon X is at about 80 percent of the Commander’s tow rating before any gear goes in. At 75 inches it is 11 inches wider than the machine pulling it, so it cannot follow the line the Commander just took.
Hitch weight is the tighter limit. Trailers normally carry 10 to 15 percent of their weight on the tongue, which puts a 1,600 lb trailer between 160 and 240 lb, right across the 200 lb mark. So the new trailer is drawn against the Commander’s numbers from the first sketch.
Sources: Commander figures from Can-Am’s 2026 Commander XT-P specifications; the 200 lb tongue weight is the limit we work to. Recon X figures from Rove Overland.
Rove Overland and Wild Latitude
Rove Overland builds it. They design and build off-road trailers in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and their Recon is the platform the new trailer starts from.
The Commander sets the limits. Every dimension is drawn against what a Can-Am Commander can tow: the tow rating, the hitch weight, and a width that stays inside the machine’s own track.
We take it out. Our Commander XT-P, built and serviced at Stojan’s Power Sports & Marine in Grande Prairie, is the tow machine. The Kakwa, the Highway 40 corridor, and the country around Tumbler Ridge are the proving ground, and everything we learn goes back to Rove.
A Trailer That Follows
the Commander
It tracks in the same ruts, clears the same deadfall, and never forces a different line because of what is hitched behind.
Rove Overland Wild Latitude Edition Concept
A working name for a trailer still in design: shorter, narrower, and lighter than the Recon X, sized to run inside the Commander’s track so it goes wherever the machine goes. These renders show where it is headed.
The rooftop tent packs down onto the rack, so the weight stays low and the profile stays down while the machine is working.
Where the gear rides today. Everything on it is weight the machine carries before a trailer is hitched.
Standard on the XT-P, with synthetic cable. Self-recovery matters more the further in you get, and a trailer is how you get further in.
Drawn to run within the Commander’s 64 in. width so it follows the machine’s own line. The Recon X it starts from is 75 in.
A 360° coupler into the Commander’s 2 in. receiver. The machine’s 2,000 lb tow rating and 200 lb hitch limit set every dimension of the trailer.
Cruisemaster CRS2, the system Rove already fits from the Recon up. It keeps a light trailer’s wheels on the ground down a rough cutline.
Traction boards, recovery gear, and the things you want in a hurry, reachable without opening the galley or dropping the tent.
Water, fuel, and food come off the Commander and go into the trailer. That is what turns a long day out into a week of them.
Minutes to deploy, and it lives on the trailer instead of the Commander’s rack.
Everything a meal needs comes out at standing height and goes back the same way. Rove builds the front port as a blank slate with mounts for exactly this.
Drop the wheel, wind the steadies down, and the trailer sits level on its own. The machine is free for the rest of the day.
Nothing came out of the Commander to make camp, and nothing has to go back in to leave.
Tap a marker · Concept renders, not photographs. The design will change as the prototype takes shape.
Off-Grid Camp Mornings and Remote Work
Camp mornings do not get rushed. The fire gets going, coffee happens, and breakfast takes as long as it takes. Stacie calls this part the Wild Within, and it is most of the reason we go to the trouble of getting this far out.
Then the laptops come out. Starlink goes up, the office opens, and we work an ordinary day from a camp chair, in country most people only drive past.
A trailer changes how long that can last. Water, power, food, and somewhere to put all of it that is not the back of the machine. Every extra day of supplies is another day further in, and that is why we want one built to this size.
The Wild Within, with StacieRove Recon Trailers in the Field
Rove has been building and shipping these trailers for years, and the finish in the details below is why we went to them.
Photos courtesy of Rove Overland.
Rove Overland Trailers, Abbotsford, BC
Canadian-built off-road trailers out of Abbotsford, British Columbia, formerly Tipella Backcountry. Their line runs from the Recon Lite up to the Expedition, and the whole range is built to be added to over time.
Rove Overland
Explore further. Stay longer. Go prepared.Follow the Rove Overland Build
First the numbers, then a prototype, then a season of testing in the northern backcountry. We will share the build, and every trip it makes, as it happens.