2026 Apex Ultra-Lite 293RLDS

The Apex Ultra-Lite 293RLDS is the flagship of the line — a 34-foot rear-living couples’ coach that maximizes living space rather than berths. The rear of the trailer opens into a bright lounge with theater seating; a kitchen island anchors the galley and adds prep space and seating; a front bedroom with a queen provides the retreat; and a standard outdoor kitchen extends the cooking outside. Nominal capacity is four — this is a couples’ or empty-nester layout built for comfort and longer stays, not a family bunkhouse.

At 7,304 pounds unloaded and 34 feet, the 293RLDS is a half-ton-plus tow, but it carries the line’s most generous payload by a wide margin: a 9,618-pound GVWR over a 7,304-pound unloaded weight leaves about 2,314 pounds of cargo capacity, so a couple can load full water, gear and a stocked pantry without crowding the rating. 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, a large 70-gallon grey tank and a 20-foot power awning — the longest in the line.

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 a residential-feeling rear lounge, a real kitchen island and big payload in a laminate ultra-light, the 293RLDS is the top of the Apex range.

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 293RLDS 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 18% of the 2,314-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 293RLDS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 818 pounds is 11% of the 7,304-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 9,618-pound GVWR the 293RLDS is towing 2,314 pounds more than its 7,304-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.

Of the 5 Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite floorplans profiled here, the 293RLDS carries the highest GVWR at 9,618 pounds. It is the top of the line by weight, which makes tow-vehicle capability the first thing to settle rather than the last.

Either side of it in the same line: Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 291TBSS is 1,638 pounds lighter at 7,980 lb GVWR.

Against the 293RLDS: the Tracer 286RL is 2 lb heavier; the EVO 2920VB is 3 lb lighter; the Longitude 230FK is 12 lb heavier and 6 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 293RLDS. 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 (94%) 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.