2026 Alliance RV Avenue28BH

The 28BH is the entry point to Alliance’s mid-profile Avenue fifth wheel and the lightest plan in the line. It is a ‘BH’ bunkhouse with two entry doors, sleeping six on a single slide-out in a 32-foot-11 body — the layout for a family that wants a separate bunk space and a second door without stepping up to the heavier, longer Avenues. It sits on Alliance’s lighter Avenue chassis tier: a 10,495-pound GVWR against an 8,518-pound dry weight, the only profiled Avenue with a 10-cubic-foot refrigerator (the bigger plans carry 16) and a 12-foot-2 exterior height rather than the 13-foot-4 of the tall plans.

Every Avenue is 101-inch wide-body construction with Azdel composite sidewalls inside and out, a PVC roof with a lifetime warranty, the Performance Running Gear package and an OTG solar package with a 400-watt panel and a 40-amp MPPT controller; a single 13,500-BTU air conditioner is standard with a second and third available. Alliance publishes the 10,495-pound GVWR against the 8,518-pound dry weight, leaving a 1,977-pound cargo capacity and a 1,450-pound dry pin — the lightest pin in the line. At a starting MSRP around $75,000, with street pricing below placard, the 28BH is the family bunkhouse for buyers who want fifth-wheel space and a second bedroom door at the lightest weight Avenue offers, towable behind a properly rated three-quarter-ton truck.

Avenue is Alliance RV's mid-profile fifth wheel — the residential fifth-wheel idea from the luxury Paradigm a step down in height, weight and price, and a cross-shop against Grand Design's Reflection, Keystone's Cougar and Jayco's Eagle. The 2026 line runs to nine floorplans; the six profiled in full are linked below and the three catalogued plans are shown muted. The 28BH on this page is highlighted.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 48-gallon fresh tank is roughly 20% of the 1,977-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 28BH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 1,450 pounds is 17% of this floorplan’s 8,518-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 10,495-pound GVWR the 28BH is towing 1,977 pounds more than its 8,518-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 48 gallons of fresh against 53 grey and 53 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 6 Avenue floorplans profiled here, the 28BH is the lightest by GVWR at 10,495 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: Avenue 32RLS is 3,500 pounds heavier at 13,995 lb GVWR.

Against the 28BH: the Arctic Wolf 287BH is 100 lb lighter and 2 ft longer and sleeps 4 more; the Eagle 27MLC is 195 lb lighter and sleeps 4 fewer; the Reflection 27BH is 300 lb lighter and sleeps 4 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 fifth wheels 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 Avenue floorplans profiled here run 8,518 to 13,400 pounds dry and 33 to 42 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 Avenue line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the 28BH. 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 (95%) 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.