2026 East to West Alta2850KRL

The Alta 2850KRL leaves East to West's factory at 6,851 lbs dry with 2,727 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 53-gallon fresh tank spends 440 lbs of the 2,727 lbs before anything else goes in.

Dry tongue weight is 778 lbs, or 11% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits inside it as published. Tongue weight is not fixed: it moves with how the trailer is loaded, and weight added ahead of the axles raises it. A weight-distribution hitch is the normal fitment at this tongue load, and the tow vehicle's tongue-weight limit is a separate number from its trailer-weight limit.

Tank capacities are 53 gallons fresh, 60 grey and 30 black, 90 gallons of waste capacity against 53 gallons of supply. The ratio is what governs how long the trailer can sit off hookups: waste capacity exceeds fresh, so the fresh tank is the binding constraint and refilling extends the stay. East to West publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Alta roster this is the 8th of 16 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 3,998 lbs to 10,334 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight. Comparing floorplans inside one line is more reliable than comparing across brands, because every figure here comes from the same factory channel on the same day.

A useful way to read these figures is to stop planning against the dry weight. Nobody tows a trailer at 6,851 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity and this plan is already near 8,215 lbs on the road. Because East to West publishes no loaded rating for this line, the ceiling has to come from the trailer's own weight label rather than from this page, and the comparison you make against the tow vehicle should use the loaded figure.

Every number above was captured twice from East to West and checked against itself before it was published. The line listing and the individual floorplan page are two separate factory renderings of the same trailer, and this plan's 4 shared figures agree exactly on both. There is no published GVWR on this line, so the usual arithmetic check - dry plus cargo equals the rating - has nothing to test against here. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because East to West does not publish it in this channel, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

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. 2850KRL is a Alta designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Alta is the broadest roster East to West publishes, and the spread is the reason to read the table rather than the floorplan numbers. Sixteen floorplans run from 3,998 lb dry on the single-axle LE plans to 10,334 lb at the top, which is not one trailer class but three: a pair of LE models light enough to sit behind a mid-size SUV, ten mainstream tandem-axle trailers, and two toy haulers plus one Xtreme plan at the heavy end. Crucially all of them are bumper pull. Tongue weight runs 470 to 1,350 lb across the whole roster, and even the toy haulers -- which East to West groups separately -- load 1,165 to 1,350 lb onto a ball, not a pin. That matters because a toy hauler badge usually implies a fifth wheel and here it does not. Cargo capacity runs 1,202 to 4,717 lb.

A full 53-gallon fresh tank is about 442 lb of water, 16% of the 2850KRL’s 2,727 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,285 lb. Across 15 Alta floorplans the water share runs 13% to 37%, and 11 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Alta 2800KBH at 16% and Alta 1900MMK at 19%.

Closest sibling: the Alta 2800KBH, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 4 of the 7 fields both publish (this plan first): length 33 ft 7 in vs 33 ft 8 in; dry weight 6,851 lb vs 6,812 lb; cargo capacity 2,727 lb vs 2,772 lb; dry hitch weight 778 lb vs 784 lb. They match on fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by dry weight: Alta 2800KBH is 39 lb lighter (6,812 lb dry); Alta 2400KTH is 492 lb heavier (7,343 lb dry).

All 15 Alta floorplans: Alta line hub.

Against the 2850KRL: the White Hawk 29BH is 14 lb heavier and 1 ft longer; the Coachmen Freedom Express Ultra Lite 274RKS is 15 lb heavier and 2 ft shorter; the Cherokee Grey Wolf Black Label 29QBBL is 16 lb lighter and 3 ft longer.

10 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 2850KRL. Not published: GVWR, interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning.

Sourcing rules: methodology.