2026 East to West Ahara297MK

The Ahara 297MK leaves East to West's factory at 12,064 lbs dry with 3,746 lbs of cargo capacity. East to West publishes no GVWR for this line, so the loaded rating is not quoted on this page and is not computed from the other two figures. What the cargo number covers is defined by the factory: fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory come out of it. Fresh water is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling the 64-gallon fresh tank spends 531 lbs of the 3,746 lbs before anything else goes in.

Pin weight is 2,310 lbs, 19% of the dry weight as published; it rises as the trailer is loaded and comes off the truck’s payload, not its towing rating, so check it against the payload on your own door sticker (pin weight and payload).

Off hookups: 132 gallons of grey and black capacity against 64 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Ahara roster this is the 1st of 8 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 12,064 lbs to 15,794 lbs. It is the lightest plan in the line, which makes it the one to look at first if the tow vehicle is the constraint.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 12,064 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 13,937 lbs. East to West publishes no loaded rating for this line, so the ceiling is the one on the trailer’s own weight label (how to read trailer weights).

East to West’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. No GVWR is published for this line, so dry plus cargo has no rating to check against. A missing row means East to West does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

East to West publishes no floorplan description for this plan in the channel this page is built from - only the numeric specification block. Rather than describe a layout from the floorplan code, which would be a guess dressed as a fact, this page carries what the factory publishes and says where it stops. 297MK is a Ahara designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 297MK differs from the other seven Ahara floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2026). How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 12,064 lb: lightest of eight; next is the 365RL (12,994 lb).
• Pin weight, 2,310 lb: lightest of eight; next is the 365RL (2,315 lb).
• Length, 34 ft 5 in: shortest of eight; next is the 365RL (36 ft 11 in).
• Exterior height, 13 ft 1 in: second-lowest of eight, between the 365RL (12 ft 11 in) and the 383UR and 395FB (13 ft 3 in).
• Cargo capacity, 3,746 lb: fourth-largest of eight, between the 390DS (3,451 lb) and the 385DS (3,811 lb).
• Pin weight as a share of dry weight, 19.1%: fourth-largest of eight, between the 385DS (18.8%) and the 383UR (19.2%).
• Grey tank, 88 gal: smallest of eight, level with the 365RL, 380FL and 382LK; next are the 383UR, 385DS and two others (132 gal).
• Black tank, 44 gal: smallest of eight, level with the 365RL, 382LK and 383UR; next are the 380FL, 385DS and two others (88 gal).

Next to the 365RL, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 297MK is 930 lb lighter by dry weight, has 425 lb more cargo capacity, has a pin weight 5 lb lighter, is 2 ft 6 in shorter and stands 2 in taller; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Ahara is East to West's full-size fifth wheel, and it is a truck decision before it is a floorplan decision. Nine floorplans run 11,759 to 15,794 lb dry across 34ft 5in to 44ft 1in of exterior length, and the pin loads run 2,310 to 3,220 lb on the seven profiled plans. Pin weight is the number to read first, because unlike a tongue load it sits directly on the tow vehicle's payload rating rather than being partly carried by the trailer's own axles -- and 3,220 lb of pin comes off that payload before any passengers or gear are added. Cargo capacity runs 2,731 to 4,401 lb. Two further plans are sold dealer stock only and are catalogued rather than profiled.

A full 64-gallon fresh tank is about 531 lb of water, 14% of the 297MK’s 3,746 lb cargo capacity, leaving 3,215 lb. Across 8 Ahara floorplans the water share runs 12% to 19%, and 4 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Ahara 385DS at 14% and Ahara 390DS at 15%.