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.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 54-gallon fresh tank is roughly 18% of the 2,510-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 28BHS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 965 pounds is 13% of the 7,390-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.

Tank balance is generous here: 54 gallons of fresh against 60 grey and 30 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by dry weight, the 28BHS sits 2 of 8 in the Cougar line: 7,390 pounds against a line that runs from 6,640 to 11,625 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: Cougar 25RDS is 750 pounds lighter at 6,640 lb dry; and Cougar 30RKD is 325 pounds heavier at 7,715 lb dry.

Against the 28BHS: the Coachmen Catalina 281QBUNK is 3 ft longer; the Aurora Light 28QBUNK is 16 lb lighter and 3 ft longer and sleeps 1 fewer; the Tracer 286RL is 28 lb heavier and 1 ft longer and sleeps 6 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 Cougar floorplans profiled here run 6,640 to 11,625 pounds dry and 28 to 39 feet of exterior length across 8 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 Cougar line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 15 of them for the 28BHS. 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: GVWR, exterior width, interior height, tire size (a tire description is published, a size is not). 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 (88%) 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.

Values on this page carrying an asterisk were derived by arithmetic from published figures, or come from a single source, rather than being printed directly by the manufacturer. The flag travels with the number into the downloadable spec sheet.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.