2026 Forest RiverAurora 29TQS

Most family trailers solve extra sleepers with bunks; the 29TQS solves them with three full queen beds — a private front queen and a rear room carrying two more. For two couples splitting a site, or a family whose kids have outgrown 28-inch bunk pads, that is a different class of sleep. A U-dinette rides the single slide, and the camp-side outside kitchen and 21-foot awning handle the daytime crowd.

Construction is the standard wide-body package — Norco electromagnetic powder-coated chassis, metal siding, seamless lifetime-warranty roof membrane, enclosed sealed underbelly, solid-surface counters, power tongue jack — with the 15,000-BTU GE ducted heat pump, 35,000-BTU furnace, GE tankless water heater and 10.7-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator standard. The factory prints a 9,824-pound GVWR; the published 7,892 UVW plus 1,932 CCC equals it exactly.

At 7,892 pounds dry on a 1,024-pound tongue, the 29TQS wants a well-optioned half-ton at minimum and rewards a three-quarter-ton. Its 1,932-pound cargo margin is the tightest of the profiled single-slide plans — weigh the loaded rig with all three beds claimed before the floorplan wins the argument.

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 1,932-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Aurora 29TQS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 1,024 pounds is 13% of the 7,892-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 9,824-pound GVWR the Aurora 29TQS is towing 1,932 pounds more than its 7,892-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 59 grey and 28 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 29TQS sits 3 of 6 in the Aurora line: 9,824 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 27DBH is 638 pounds lighter at 9,186 lb GVWR; and Aurora 32RLTS is 518 pounds heavier at 10,342 lb GVWR.

Against the Aurora 29TQS: the Coachmen Catalina 323BHDSCK is 2 lb heavier and sleeps 1 more; the Salem Hemisphere & Heritage Glen 261FKRB is 4 lb lighter and 4 ft shorter and sleeps 6 fewer; the Springdale 310BR is 4 lb lighter and sleeps 3 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 29TQS. 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.