2026 KeystoneColeman 13B

The Coleman 13B is the smallest trailer in the line and one of the most towable conventional trailers on the market — under 16 feet long, 2,526 pounds dry, and 352 pounds on the hitch, which puts it within reach of many mid-size SUVs and crossovers. It was added to the lineup to do something most ultra-compact trailers can't: sleep a family. Despite the tiny footprint, the 13B keeps a set of bunks alongside the convertible front dinette, so it sleeps four where most trailers this size sleep two.

It's a Keystone-built value trailer, which means a conventional stick-built body on an I-beam steel frame with stamped-steel cross-members and outriggers, a walkable roof, and a one-piece heated and enclosed underbelly — the construction features Keystone leads with. Inside the 78-inch-tall cabin are blackout night shades, an electric fireplace on select builds, a stainless sink, and a wet-weather-friendly flush floor. A power awning and quick-drop stabilizer jacks make setup fast, and a Furrion backup-camera prep helps with parking.

The trade for the small size and low price is capacity: a 28-gallon fresh tank and a single axle are appropriate to the footprint, and there are no off-grid systems — this is a shore-power value trailer, not a boondocker. But for first-time buyers, grandparents hauling grandkids, or anyone with a modest tow vehicle who still needs four berths, the 13B is among the most affordable and practical ways onto the road.

The base Coleman line — Keystone's compact, value-priced travel trailers. The 13B on this page is highlighted; each other plan links to its own profile. The full line runs from a 13-foot couples' plan up through 27-foot family layouts.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 28-gallon fresh tank is roughly 24% of the 974-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Coleman 13B with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 352 pounds is 14% of the 2,526-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 3,500-pound GVWR the Coleman 13B is towing 974 pounds more than its 2,526-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 28 gallons of fresh against 34 grey and 34 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 3 Coleman floorplans profiled here, the Coleman 13B is the lightest by GVWR at 3,500 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: Coleman 17B is 490 pounds heavier at 3,990 lb GVWR.

Against the Coleman 13B: the Basecamp 16X sleeps 2 fewer; the Jay Feather 15TBSL is 2 ft longer and sleeps 2 fewer. 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 Coleman floorplans profiled here run 2,526 to 3,061 pounds dry and 16 to 21 feet of exterior length across 3 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 Coleman line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 15 of them for the Coleman 13B. 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 (90%) 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.