2026 Apex Ultra-Lite 244RBS

The Apex Ultra-Lite 244RBS is the line’s open rear-living couples’ coach. The rear of the trailer is given over to a bright, welcoming living area — a sofa, an end table and the main seating ride on a large slide — while a cozy front bedroom with a queen provides a quiet retreat after a day of hiking or beach time. A full rear-adjacent bath and a galley with a single-bowl sink fill the middle. Nominal capacity is three; this is a layout that trades a second bedroom and bunks for living space and easy towing.

At 6,224 pounds unloaded and 29 feet 8 inches, the 244RBS is a comfortable half-ton tow, with about 1,430 pounds of cargo capacity — adequate for a couple, though tighter than the lighter 242BARV. Standard equipment is full 12-volt residential: a 10-cubic-foot 12V refrigerator, a 3-burner stovetop with an air-fryer oven, a 15,000-BTU ducted air conditioner, a 55-amp power center with standard 50-amp service, a 400-watt solar system with inverter prep and a large 70-gallon grey tank that stretches the time between dumps. The factory floorplan record lists the awning size as not yet defined for the current build, so that figure is flagged.

Construction is the Apex Aluma-Cage recipe — vacuum-bonded laminated dual Azdel fiberglass sidewalls and rear wall, a laminated aluminum trussed roof with a Dicor Crossflex membrane and a laminated aluminum-framed floor — a clear tier above the metal-sided Catalina value line. For a couple who wants an open, light rear lounge with a real bath and the towability of an ultra-light, the 244RBS is a strong everyday pick.

Coachmen's Apex Ultra-Lite is the brand's premium-mainstream ultra-light travel trailer — a laminated-fiberglass, aluminum-framed line built to tow behind a mid-size SUV or any half-ton. The 244RBS on this page is highlighted; the other profiled plans link to their own pages. Profiled here are breadth-spanning floorplans — couples rear-bath, bar-style entertainer, family bunkhouse and rear-living lounge — with the rest of the roster catalogued on the line hub and profiled in demand order. (Apex also fields a value-priced metal-framed Apex Ultra-Lite X sub-line and the smaller Apex Nano, summarized on the hub.)

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 50-gallon fresh tank is roughly 29% of the 1,430-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 244RBS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 654 pounds is 11% of the 6,224-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 7,654-pound GVWR the 244RBS is towing 1,430 pounds more than its 6,224-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 50 gallons of fresh against 70 grey and 35 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 244RBS sits 2 of 5 in the Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite line: 7,654 pounds against a line that runs from 7,600 to 9,618 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: Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 242BARV is 54 pounds lighter at 7,600 lb GVWR; and Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 246BARV is 196 pounds heavier at 7,850 lb GVWR.

Against the 244RBS: the Surveyor Legend 205RKLE is 1 lb heavier and 3 ft shorter; the Campsite Reserve 23JW is 4 lb lighter; the Longitude 255BH is 4 lb lighter. 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 Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite floorplans profiled here run 5,772 to 7,304 pounds dry and 29 to 34 feet of exterior length across 5 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 Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the 244RBS. 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: interior height, tire specification. 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 (92%) 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.

Values on this page carrying an asterisk were derived by arithmetic from published figures, or come from a single source, rather than being printed directly by the manufacturer. The flag travels with the number into the downloadable spec sheet.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.