2026 Forest RiverAurora 24RBS

The 24RBS is where the wide-body Aurora line starts: a full-width rear bathroom, a living slide carrying the dinette, a front bedroom and a camp-side outside kitchen under a 21-foot power awning — the couples-retreat formula, at the value tier. Forest River fits the free-standing dinette option and washer/dryer prep here, both unusual courtesies at an entry price point.

It is built the way every base Aurora is built: the Norco electromagnetic powder-coated chassis under a metal-sided body with a seamless roof membrane carrying a limited lifetime warranty, an enclosed fully sealed underbelly, a power tongue jack and solid-surface counters inside. A 15,000-BTU GE ducted heat-pump air conditioner, a 35,000-BTU furnace, a GE 60,000-BTU tankless water heater and the 10.7-cubic-foot GE 12-volt refrigerator are line-standard. The factory detail page prints an 8,468-pound GVWR, and the published 6,468-pound UVW plus 2,000-pound CCC sums to it exactly.

At 6,468 pounds dry on an 850-pound tongue, the 24RBS sits comfortably inside a properly equipped half-ton, and its 2,000 pounds of cargo margin absorbs a full 38-gallon fresh tank (about 315 pounds) with room left over. Couples who want the same footprint with a front kitchen should read the catalogued 26FKDS on the hub; families should start at the 27DBH.

Forest River's Aurora line — the 96-inch wide-body tier of the value family: twelve 2026 tandem-axle floorplans from a 29-foot-9 rear-bath couples plan to a 37-foot-10 triple-slide flagship bunkhouse, every one on the Norco electromagnetic powder-coated chassis with a 15,000-BTU GE ducted heat-pump air conditioner, solid-surface counters and a GE 60,000-BTU tankless water heater standard. Six plans are profiled in depth; the full roster including catalogued plans lives on the Aurora hub with verified weights.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 38-gallon fresh tank is roughly 16% of the 2,000-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Aurora 24RBS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 850 pounds is 13% of the 6,468-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 8,468-pound GVWR the Aurora 24RBS is towing 2,000 pounds more than its 6,468-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 38 gallons of fresh against 44 grey and 29 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 6 Aurora floorplans profiled here, the Aurora 24RBS is the lightest by GVWR at 8,468 pounds — the entry point to the line and the one most likely to suit a vehicle already at its limit.

Either side of it in the same line: Aurora 27DBH is 718 pounds heavier at 9,186 lb GVWR.

Against the Aurora 24RBS: the EVO 2290ER is 18 lb lighter and 1 ft shorter; the Passport 2600FK is 27 lb heavier and 1 ft longer and sleeps 3 more; the Jay Feather 29BHB is 32 lb heavier and 4 ft longer and sleeps 7 more. 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 Aurora floorplans profiled here run 6,468 to 9,152 pounds dry and 30 to 38 feet of exterior length across 6 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 Aurora line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 15 of them for the Aurora 24RBS. 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: slide count, tire specification, awning. 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.

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