For years the truck camper world has felt split right down the middle. On one side you had the traditional RV crowd, guys who wanted a comfortable place to park at the campground, plug in, and watch the game on satellite TV. On the other side were the overlanders, younger mostly, chasing dirt roads, high passes, and the kind of places where cell service died three days ago. The two groups barely talked to each other.
That wall is crumbling fast, and Soaring Eagle Campers just drove a bulldozer through what was left of it.
With the new Adlar Overland Edition package for 2026, Soaring Eagle took their already tough, all-aluminum, no-wood-to-rot Adlar lineup and gave it every piece of kit a serious overland traveler actually uses, without turning it into a 4,000-pound science project. The result is a camper that can sit in an RV park one weekend and be 40 miles up an old mining road the next, and you can still close the tailgate on every single model.
The Overland Edition adds $4,499 to any Adlar from the little 5.0 that fits midsize trucks all the way to the full-size long-bed 8.0XLS. For that money you get a list of gear most guys piece together over years and twice the price.
First thing you notice is the Batwing 270-degree awning. It rolls out from the driver side and wraps almost halfway around the truck, giving you a huge covered area for cooking, working on the truck, or just sitting in the shade with a cold drink while a mountain storm blows through. It sets up in minutes and feels bomb-proof.
Up top, full-width roof racks are rated for 125 pounds dynamic load, plenty for a couple of kayaks, a rooftop tent if you have passengers who want their own space, or a stack of skis when the high country finally gets snow. Guys who chase steelhead in the fall and powder in the winter are going to love that.
On each side of the camper you get big 25x25-inch MOLLE panels. Shovel, axe, traction boards, Hi-Lift, extra fuel, whatever you need within arm’s reach and locked down tight. No more digging through the bed wondering where the recovery gear disappeared to.
Speaking of fuel, every Overland Edition comes with a two-gallon RotoPax gasoline can already mounted and plumbed. You can swap it for diesel or water, or bolt on more cans if you’re the type who measures range in days instead of hours.
Water is handled by a four-gallon WaterPORT DayTank that pressurizes to 40 psi with a bike pump or compressor. Leave it in the sun and you’ve got hot water for a shower or washing the mud off your boots. A 23Zero pop-up shower enclosure is part of the package too, three feet by three feet of privacy that packs down to nothing. After a week on the trail, that little luxury feels like a five-star hotel.
The outside gets wrapped in aggressive topographic-line graphics using 3M film, so it looks like it belongs on the Continental Divide instead of a grocery store parking lot. And because ground clearance matters when the pavement ends, the jacks now use quick-detach brackets. Pull four pins, leave the jacks at home, gain a couple more inches of break-over angle and drop some weight while you’re at it.
Under the skin, every Adlar already starts with a 100 amp-hour heated lithium battery and a 160-watt solar panel on the roof, so you’re not completely dead without a hookup. Bump it to 400 amp-hours and 360 watts of solar if you plan on staying gone for weeks. Plenty of owners already run fridges, diesel heaters, and Starlink off that setup with power left over.
Inside, Soaring Eagle didn’t mess with what works. The layout stays clean and simple: real queen bed in most models, decent galley, wet bath where it fits, and no fake fireplaces or sofa sections you’ll never use. It’s built for sleeping, eating, and getting back outside, exactly what most men want when they finally get away.
The fact you can still shut the tailgate on every model, even the long-bed 8.0XLS, matters more than people think. It keeps the bed organized, stops stuff from sliding out at the trailhead, and lets you lock the whole rig with the factory tailgate key. Little things like that show the company actually uses these campers instead of just building them.
Overland Expos have been packed with Soaring Eagles the last couple years, and you can see why. They’re light enough that a half-ton truck doesn’t cry on steep grades, tough enough that rocks and pinstripes don’t end the trip, and now with the Overland Edition they come straight from the factory looking like they’ve already been to Alaska and back.
The traditional RV dealers might not know what to do with them, and that’s fine. These aren’t for the blue-hair snowbird crowd anymore. They’re for the guy who still has mud on his boots from last weekend, who measures vacation in miles of dirt road instead of nights at the KOA, and who wants to pull into camp, drop the jacks (or not), flip out the awning, crack a beer, and not touch the setup again until it’s time to head deeper into the mountains.
Soaring Eagle just made it a lot harder to talk yourself into building your own overland camper one expensive part at a time. For 2026, the Adlar Overland Edition rolls off the lot ready for whatever road ends you’ve been putting off.
Maybe this is the year you finally disappear for a while.
