01 What makes it unique
The Access 25BH fits a seven-berth family into under 30 feet: a private front queen bedroom for the parents, a slide-out living area with a dinette in the middle, and rear bunks for the kids. It sleeps as many as the far longer 30BH while staying short enough to be easy to park and store.
It rides the tandem package — NXG engineered steel frame, Tuff-Coat metal exterior, one-piece TPO roof, enclosed radiant-foil underbelly, tandem 4,400-pound axles on 15-inch Load Range E tires, a 13,500-BTU ducted air conditioner, a 30,000-BTU furnace, a 60,000-BTU tankless water heater and a 10-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, with a 60-gallon fresh tank. The published dry weight plus payload equals the 8,800-pound GVWR exactly.
At 6,456 pounds dry the 25BH leaves 2,344 pounds of payload against the shared 8,800-pound GVWR, with an 815-pound tongue — a workable family margin behind a well-equipped half-ton. For a family that wants a private front bedroom and real rear bunks, but in the shortest, most parkable tandem bunkhouse Winnebago builds, the 25BH is the compact-family pick.
02 Full specifications
Dimensions
- Exterior length
- 29' 11"
- Exterior width
- 8' 0"
- Exterior height
- 11' 2"
- Interior height
- 6' 8"
Weights
- Dry / unit base weight
- 6,456 lbs
- GVWR (max loaded)
- 8,800 lbs
- Net cargo / payload
- 2,344 lbs
- Axle count
- 2 (tandem)
Capacities
- Fresh water
- 60 gal
- Grey water
- 49 gal
- Black water
- 49 gal
- Refrigerator
- 10 cu ft (12V)
Construction
- Frame
- NXG engineered steel
- Roof
- One-piece TPO
- Underbelly
- Enclosed · radiant foil
- Body
- Tuff-Coat metal · aerodynamic front
Running gear
- Axles
- 2 (tandem) · 4,400 lb each
- Hitch
- Bumper Pull · dry tongue 815 lb
- Tires
- 15″ · Load Range E
- Wheels
- Aluminum · EZ-lube hubs
Galley & bath
- Cooktop
- 3-burner recessed
- Refrigerator
- 10 cu ft 12V
- A/C
- 13,500 BTU ducted
- Water heater
- 60,000 BTU tankless
Sleeping & layout
- Sleeps
- 7
- Primary bed
- Front queen
- Layout
- Private front queen bedroom, slide-out living and dinette, rear bunks, sleeps seven
- Awnings
- 1 · 19′
Verified specs, drawn to scale
Original graphics built from this floorplan’s own verified figures.
Loaded weight budget
Size, drawn to scale
Holding tanks
These graphics are generated from the same verified record that builds the table above, and are published under this site’s own licence — nothing here is traced from, or derived from, a manufacturer drawing or photo. Where a figure is not published for this plan, the graphic that would need it is omitted rather than estimated. The full record is in the published dataset.
What it takes to tow this
Built from this floorplan’s verified weights. We publish the trailer side only.
We do not publish tow ratings for specific trucks. A single model can vary by thousands of pounds depending on engine, axle ratio, cab, drivetrain and package — the only authoritative figure is the one on your own door jamb. Loaded tongue percentages are industry convention for travel trailers (10–15% of loaded weight), not a measurement of this unit. Hitch classes are not used here as a rating: SAE J684 covers trailers to 10,000 lb GVWR and does not define Class V, and capacity boundaries differ between manufacturers — read the rating stamped on your hitch.
03 Access floorplan family
Winnebago's Access line — the value-priced range of the towable lineup: fourteen 2026 travel trailers spanning compact single-axle plans rated to 5,100 pounds up to the 37-foot-11 flagship on its own 10,400-pound chassis. The 25BH on this page is highlighted; every 2026 plan links to its own profiled page.
| Floorplan | Nominal | Sleeps | Notable |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15BH | 21 ft | 5 | Smallest & lowest-priced; single-axle bunkhouse |
| 15RB | 21 ft | 3 | Single-axle rear bath; lightest tongue in the line |
| 18DBH | 22 ft | 5 | Single-axle bunkhouse; pass-through storage |
| 18RK | 22 ft | 4 | Single-axle rear kitchen |
| 25ML | 29 ft | 5 | Living-room slide; twin theater seating, rear kitchen |
| 26BH | 29 ft | 6 | Value family bunkhouse; biggest payload, outdoor kitchen |
| 25RK | 29 ft | 5 | Dual-entry rear kitchen; 98-gal grey |
| 24RB | 29 ft | 4 | Rear-bath couples; Olympic queen, fireplace |
| 25BH | 29 ft | 7 | Front-bedroom bunkhouse; sleeps 7 in under 30 ft |
| 26RL | 30 ft | 5 | Rear living with a view; dual entry, longest awning |
| 28FK | 32 ft | 5 | Front galley, rear queen; Murphy+ guest berth |
| 30BH | 33 ft | 7 | Family bunkhouse; private bunk room, outdoor kitchen |
| 27BH | 33 ft | 8 | Max sleeper (8); private bedroom + double-over-double bunks |
| 32BR | 37 ft | 8 | Flagship; 10,400-lb chassis, private bunkroom, sleeps 8 |
The Access splits into two build classes. The four single-axle plans (15- and 18-series) are rated to a 5,100-pound GVWR on one 5,100-pound axle, with an 8,000-BTU roof A/C, an 18,000-BTU furnace and a 6-gallon DSI water heater. The ten tandem plans carry an 8,800-pound GVWR on 4,400-pound axles — the 32BR uniquely on 5,200-pound axles for 10,400 pounds — and add a 13,500-BTU ducted A/C, a 30,000-BTU furnace, a 60,000-BTU tankless water heater, a 10-cubic-foot refrigerator and a 2-inch accessory receiver. On every plan the published dry weight plus payload equals the GVWR exactly. Figures are RVUSA structured records cross-checked against Winnebago's factory specification table; tongue weights, awning lengths, axle ratings and dual-grey-tank capacities are factory figures. Always confirm against the unit's weight sticker before towing.
04 What owners & reviewers report
Sleeps seven in under 30 feet
A private front bedroom and rear bunks berth a full family in a footprint shorter than most seven-sleepers.
A private parents' bedroom
The front queen is a real bedroom, not a convertible — separation the shortest bunkhouses often skip.
Compact and parkable
At 29 feet 11, the 25BH fits sites and storage that the 30BH and 32BR cannot.
Family payload math
2,344 lb of margin against a family's water and gear — generous for the size, but weigh the loaded rig.
05 How it compares
The value family bunkhouse — sleeps six with more payload and an outdoor kitchen, at a lower price.
The big family plan — a private rear bunk room and its own bath, with an outdoor kitchen.
The compact family-bunkhouse rival — compare berth counts, payload and build.
06 Loading it for a trip
This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 60-gallon fresh tank is roughly 21% of the 2,344-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Access 25BH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.
| Weight budget | Figure | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Cargo capacity as published (CCC) | 2,344 lb | Everything you add: gear, water, propane, batteries, food, people’s belongings. |
| Fresh tank filled (60 gal × 8.34 lb) | −500 lb | Water is the heaviest thing most owners add, and it is added first. |
| Cargo budget left with a full fresh tank | 1,844 lb | 21% of this plan’s capacity is spent before a single bag is loaded. |
| Per sleeping position, water aboard | 263 lb | A rough share of what is left across the 7 berths this plan sleeps. |
The published dry tongue weight of 815 pounds is 13% of the 6,456-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.
Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 8,800-pound GVWR the Access 25BH is towing 2,344 pounds more than its 6,456-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.
Tank balance is generous here: 60 gallons of fresh against 49 grey and 49 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.
07 Where this floorplan sits
Ranked by GVWR, the Access 25BH sits 6 of 14 in the Access line: 8,800 pounds against a line that runs from 5,100 to 10,400 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.
Either side of it in the same line: Access 24RB matches it exactly at 8,800 lb GVWR; and Access 25ML matches it exactly at 8,800 lb GVWR.
8 other Access plans share this floorplan’s 8,800 lb GVWR, so the ranking above separates plans that tow to the same ceiling. On a shared chassis the figure that actually differs between them is cargo capacity and where the weight sits, not the rating.
| Comparable travel trailers | GVWR (lb) | Dry (lb) | Sleeps | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access 25BH | 8,800 | 6,456 | 7 | 29 ft 11 in |
| Classic 28RB | 8,800 | 7,650 | 5 | 28 ft 10 in |
| Flying Cloud 30FB Bunk | 8,800 | 6,700 | 8 | 31 ft 2 in |
| Globetrotter 30RB | 8,800 | 6,990 | 6 | 31 ft 2 in |
| International 30RB | 8,800 | 6,600 | 6 | 31 ft 2 in |
| Minnie 2301BHS | 8,800 | 6,514 | 6 | 29 ft 9 in |
| Passport 2605RB | 8,800 | 6,762 | 6 | 30 ft 6 in |
Against the Access 25BH: the Classic 28RB is 1 ft shorter and sleeps 2 fewer; the Flying Cloud 30FB Bunk is 1 ft longer and sleeps 1 more; the Globetrotter 30RB is 1 ft longer and sleeps 1 fewer. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.
Those are the nearest travel trailers from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.
For scale, the Access floorplans profiled here run 3,496 to 8,008 pounds dry and 21 to 38 feet of exterior length across 14 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.
Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Access line hub.
08 Common questions about the Access 25BH
How much does the Access 25BH weigh?
It leaves the factory at 6,456 pounds dry, and its manufacturer-set loaded ceiling (GVWR) is 8,800 pounds. Real towing weight lands between the two and depends entirely on what you load. Use the GVWR when matching a tow vehicle; the dry figure is only useful for comparing floorplans against each other.
How much can the Access 25BH carry?
Cargo carrying capacity is 2,344 pounds. That is the whole budget: water, propane, batteries, gear and everything you bring. Filling the 60-gallon fresh tank uses about 500 pounds of that.
What is the tongue weight of the Access 25BH?
The published dry tongue weight is 815 pounds. It is measured empty; loaded, it runs higher, and it comes out of your tow vehicle’s payload rather than its tow rating.
What size tow vehicle does the Access 25BH need?
Your vehicle needs a tow rating of at least 8,800 pounds — this floorplan’s GVWR — and enough payload left over for the hitch load, passengers and anything in the bed. This site does not publish tow ratings for specific vehicles, because one truck model varies by thousands of pounds across engine, axle ratio, cab and package. The figure that governs is the payload sticker on your own door jamb.
How many people does the Access 25BH sleep?
It is rated to sleep 7. Rated sleeping positions include convertible furniture, so count the beds against how you actually travel rather than against the number.
What are the tank capacities on the Access 25BH?
Fresh 60 gallons, grey 49 gallons, black 49 gallons. Tank sizes set how long the floorplan can sit away from hookups, and the smallest of the three is what ends the stay.
How long is the Access 25BH?
Exterior length is 29' 11". Measure against your site length and your storage before committing — the exterior figure is the one that has to fit, and it includes the tongue or pin box.
Every figure in these answers is read from this page’s verified specification table. Where the manufacturer publishes nothing, the question is not answered rather than estimated.
09 What this page publishes, and what it does not
This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 17 of them for the Access 25BH. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.
Not published for this floorplan: slide count, tire size (a tire description is published, a size is not). If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.
The completeness figure at the foot of this page (97%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.
How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.
11 NHTSA safety record
This floorplan belongs to the Access line, and NHTSA holds 15 recall campaigns and 2 owner complaints against that line. They are separate records and are not added together — a recall is a manufacturer-confirmed defect with a remedy; a complaint is one owner’s account, which NHTSA does not verify.
Too few reports to show a pattern. 2 complaints have been filed on this line — not enough to say what fails most often. They cover equipment and wheels.
Recall coverage is not complete — our harvest of NHTSA’s recall API ran 1,556 queries, of which 0 failed and 242 returned an explicit zero. A line can still be under-reported where NHTSA files a roster under a parent name, or where a match rests on the wording of the recall rather than its model field. Complaints come from the complete bulk file but are unverified and self-selected: a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy. Full tables are on the Access line page.