2026 Forest RiverAurora 27DBH

The 27DBH is the base Aurora most buyers actually meet: a rear bunk room with its own entry door, a U-dinette riding the single street-side slide, a front bedroom and a camp-side outside kitchen under the 21-foot awning. Two entries mean sandy kids go straight to the bunk room, and the 74-gallon grey tank — among the largest in the family — keeps a full crew showering for a long weekend.

The build is the standard wide-body Aurora package: Norco electromagnetic powder-coated chassis, metal siding under the seamless lifetime-warranty roof membrane, enclosed sealed underbelly, power tongue jack, solid-surface counters, the 15,000-BTU GE ducted heat-pump air conditioner, 35,000-BTU furnace, GE tankless water heater and the 10.7-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator. The factory prints a 9,186-pound GVWR and the published 7,186 UVW plus 2,000 CCC equals it exactly.

At 7,186 pounds dry with an 876-pound tongue this is still half-ton work, but it is honest half-ton work: load eight sleepers, water and gear and the 2,000-pound cargo margin is spoken for quickly. Families who outgrow it move to the 29TQS triple-queen or the 34BHTS flagship; the catalogued 28BHS and 29QBS on the hub bracket it in size.

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 27DBH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 876 pounds is 12% of the 7,186-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 9,186-pound GVWR the Aurora 27DBH is towing 2,000 pounds more than its 7,186-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 74 grey and 29 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the Aurora 27DBH sits 2 of 6 in the Aurora line: 9,186 pounds against a line that runs from 8,468 to 10,686 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: Aurora 24RBS is 718 pounds lighter at 8,468 lb GVWR; and Aurora 29TQS is 638 pounds heavier at 9,824 lb GVWR.

Against the Aurora 27DBH: the Airelume 285 is 47 lb heavier and 4 ft longer; the Delta 294RK is 64 lb heavier and sleeps 4 fewer; the Coachmen Catalina 263BHSCK is 66 lb lighter and 1 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 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 27DBH. 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.