2026 Apex Ultra-Lite 291TBSS

The Apex Ultra-Lite 291TBSS is the line’s large-family bunkhouse, built around a private triple-bunk room. The rear bunkhouse closes off for privacy and stacks three bunks for the kids; a front bedroom with a queen gives the adults their own space; a U-shaped dinette on the single slide seats the family and converts to another berth; and a standard outside kitchen moves cooking to the campsite. With the triple bunks, the front bedroom and the convertible dinette, nominal capacity reaches nine — a genuine big-crew layout in a still-towable ultra-light.

At 6,896 pounds unloaded and 33 feet 6 inches, the 291TBSS is a half-ton-plus tow, and its 1,084-pound cargo capacity is the tightest among the profiled plans — the trade for fitting nine berths and an outside kitchen into the weight. A family that loads heavy should weigh the rig carefully and watch tongue load. 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 an 18-foot power awning.

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 big family that wants a private bunk room, an outside kitchen and laminate-fiberglass construction without stepping up to a heavy full-size trailer, the 291TBSS is the large-family Apex pick — with the caveat that its payload runs tight.

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 291TBSS 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.)

Fresh water is the single biggest line in this floorplan’s load plan. A full 50-gallon tank is about 38% of the 1,084-pound cargo capacity — enough that whether you tow with water aboard is a real decision on the 291TBSS rather than a detail.

The published dry tongue weight of 980 pounds is 14% of the 6,896-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 7,980-pound GVWR the 291TBSS is towing 1,084 pounds more than its 6,896-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 35 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 291TBSS sits 4 of 5 in the Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite line: 7,980 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 246BARV is 130 pounds lighter at 7,850 lb GVWR; and Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 293RLDS is 1,638 pounds heavier at 9,618 lb GVWR.

Against the 291TBSS: the Cherokee Grey Wolf 29QB is 3 lb lighter and 3 ft longer and sleeps 2 fewer; the Campsite Ultra 26BW is 5 lb heavier and 3 ft shorter; the IBEX 25MLB is 7 lb lighter and 4 ft shorter. 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 291TBSS. 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 (93%) 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.