2026 Cougar Half-Ton28BHS

The Cougar Half-Ton 28BHS is the family bunkhouse of the line — the plan that turns the Cougar Half-Ton's couples-trailer comfort into a coach that genuinely sleeps a crowd. Double-size bunks fill the rear, a front bedroom gives the parents privacy, a large slide opens the main living area, and a tri-fold sofa plus the dinette push nominal capacity to ten. Dual entry doors keep the bunk room and the bedroom separate, and an outside kitchen lets the cooking happen outdoors when a full family is aboard.

It carries the full Cougar Half-Ton build: a five-sided aluminum superstructure, laminated HyperCore composite sidewalls, HyperDeck flooring, a walkable TPO roof under a lifetime limited roofing warranty, and a forced-air heated, enclosed underbelly under the Climate Guard package. Tandem 4,400-pound axles ride on Goodyear Endurance E-rated tires, and a 10-cubic-foot 12-volt Norcold refrigerator, a tankless water heater and 50-amp service equip it well for longer family stays. At a 2,510-pound payload it carries one of the better cargo margins in the line — useful when ten people's gear, bikes and water have to come along.

The trade is the same one every big family trailer asks: 33 feet and roughly 7,400 pounds dry want a capable half-ton or a three-quarter-ton truck, and the published 965-pound dry tongue weight will rise once the trailer is loaded, so weigh it and match it to your truck honestly. Keystone publishes the dry weight as a pre-production estimate, and dealer-listed dry weights for the 28BHS vary by a couple hundred pounds depending on build, so confirm against the unit's own sticker. For families who want double bunks, an outside kitchen and a private front bedroom without stepping up to a fifth wheel, the 28BHS is the Cougar Half-Ton line's most capable travel-trailer family pick.

Keystone's Cougar splits into two families. The full-size Cougar is the heavier flagship fifth wheel — 5,100-pound axles, H-rated tires and roughly 13′4″ of height. The Cougar Half-Ton line is engineered to be towable by a properly equipped half-ton truck, and Keystone offers it as both a fifth wheel and a travel trailer — lighter 4,400-pound axles, Goodyear Endurance tires, and lower pin or tongue weights. The 28BHS on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page. The full Cougar catalogue runs to dozens of floorplans across both families; the highest-demand layouts are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the line hub.