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Made in Colorado (Spring 2024): Land Ark RV
Land Ark builds semi-custom trailers with a sense of style that differentiates them from the “flimsy” competition, Buzarde says.
Eric Peterson //April 11, 2024//
Photo courtesy of Land Ark RV.
Photo courtesy of Land Ark RV.
Made in Colorado (Spring 2024): Land Ark RV
Land Ark builds semi-custom trailers with a sense of style that differentiates them from the “flimsy” competition, Buzarde says.
Eric Peterson //April 11, 2024//
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All Made In Colorado’s featured companies have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado.
It underlines the sheer breadth of the products made in Colorado. While the Colorado manufacturing base is not as established as places like the Rust Belt and the Southeast, it is also unconstrained by tradition and underpinned by innovation.
And that might be exactly what the domestic industry needs as it rides a winning streak fueled by the return of manufacturing from China and other overseas locales — no matter whether it lands in Detroit or Kremmling, Colorado.
Land Ark RV
Transportation & Lifestyle
Starting at $220,000 retail
Website: www.landarkrv.com
An architect by trade, Brian Buzarde built his first upscale travel trailer with his now-wife, Joni, in 2011. “It really was an unorthodox but practical solution to where we were in life,” he says. “We wanted to get out West somewhere in the mountains or somewhere pretty, and I was really itching to see something I designed get built.”
The couple bounced around the Roaring Fork Valley and lived in their trailer full-time until 2016. The next year, they started making more units and sold their first Land Ark RV in 2018 before moving into an ideal facility in Rifle in 2021. The semi-custom trailers have a sense of style that differentiates them from the “flimsy” competition, Buzarde says.
After building about five a year since 2018, their plan for 2024 is to rethink the designs with higher volumes in mind. “We need to get to something we can really scale,” says Buzarde, who cites Airstream as an inspiration. “It’s a clear contrast to what is available elsewhere.”
