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2027 Heartland Cyclone Travel Trailer2214

The smallest and cheapest Cyclone — a twenty-eight-foot bumper-pull toy hauler with a published 4,255-pound cargo capacity, a mandatory 30-gallon fuel tank and a 106-gallon fresh tank.

Tow-Critical Data — as built, MY2027

7,445lb
Dry Weight
11,700lb
GVWR
1,045lb
Dry Tongue
28ft
Length
Sleeps 4 Travel-Trailer Toy Hauler · Entry Cyclone — the smallest and cheapest in the family Built by · Heartland RV Cargo capacity · 4,255 lbs published Base MSRP · $64,868

01 What makes it unique

The 2214 opens the Cyclone travel-trailer line at twenty-eight feet one inch overall on a twenty-five-foot-seven box, sleeping four. It carries Heartland's mandatory Ramp and Cargo Equipment package — a 30-gallon fuel tank with a locking, enclosed pump and timer, garage D-rings mounted to the steel frame, a Tuff-Ply rubberized garage floor liner, LED high-intensity ramp lighting, a weather-resistant rear ramp door and patio with anti-slip flooring, and power inverter prep. The mandatory Camping in Comfort package adds a 60,000-BTU on-demand tankless water heater, the 106-gallon fresh tank, a glass-front 12-volt refrigerator and a 13,500-BTU air conditioner.

What sets Cyclone apart in this catalog is how completely it publishes. Heartland gives GVWR, dry weight, hitch weight and cargo carrying capacity per plan, and on this trailer 7,445 pounds dry plus 4,255 pounds of cargo equals the 11,700-pound GVWR exactly. Nothing on this page is derived. What Heartland does not give is a garage length — not on this plan, not on any Cyclone, not on either brand page. Grand Design publishes one on all twenty-eight Momentum floorplans; Heartland publishes none on any of six. We show the figures the factory publishes and leave the row out rather than estimate it. The 1,045-pound dry tongue is the lightest in the family.

02 Full specifications

Dimensions

Exterior length (overall)
28 ft 1 in
Exterior length (box)
25 ft 7 in
Exterior width
8 ft 6 in
Width, slides out
11 ft 6 in
Exterior height
11 ft 11 in
Exterior height (w/ A/C)
12 ft 8 in
Interior height (main)
7 ft 6 in
Interior height (bedroom)
7 ft 11 in

Weights

Dry / unit base weight
7,445 lbs
GVWR (max loaded)
11,700 lbs
Net cargo / payload (CCC)
4,255 lbs
Dry tongue weight
1,045 lbs

Capacities

Fresh water
106 gal
Grey water
74 gal
Black water
37 gal
LP gas
40 lbs

Construction

Body
Travel-trailer toy hauler · bumper pull
Garage floor
Tuff-Ply® rubberized liner
Ramp door
Weather-resistant rear ramp door and patio w/ anti-slip flooring
Garage screen
Roll-down garage screen (unless a 3-season door is selected)
Ventilation
Ram air vents and powered roof vent

Running gear

Hitch
Bumper pull
Axles
2 x 6,000
Tires
ST235/80R16′E′

Garage

Garage tie-points
Garage D-rings mounted to steel frame
Garage length
Not published by source
Fuel station
30 gal · mandatory Ramp and Cargo Equipment package
Beds / sofas
HappiJac® electric-lift queen beds w/ convertible sofas
Ramp lighting
LED high-intensity ramp lighting

Galley & systems

Air conditioning
13.5K BTU air conditioner · mandatory Camping in Comfort package
Furnace
35,000 BTU
Water heater
Tankless · 60,000 BTU on-demand (mandatory package)

Sleeping & layout

Sleeps
4
Slides
Not published by source
Awning
17 ft 0 in
Hitch type
Bumper pull

Verified specs, drawn to scale

Original graphics built from this floorplan’s own verified figures.

Loaded weight budget

Loaded weight budget for the 2214Horizontal bar. Dry weight 7,445 pounds, then cargo capacity 4,255 pounds, against a GVWR of 11,700 pounds. Dry tongue weight 1,045 pounds on the same scale.GVWR 11,700 lbsDry 7,445 lbsCargo capacity 4,255 lbsDry tongue weight 1,045 lbs — same scale
Drawn from this page’s published figures. The bar runs from empty to GVWR: the dark band is dry weight, the light band is everything you are allowed to add — water, propane, batteries and gear all come out of it.

Size, drawn to scale

Scale outline of the 2214Scale outline of the 2214. Overall length 28' 1", overall height 11' 11", overall width 8' 6". 2 axles as published.end view8' 6"28' 1" overall length11' 11"
Overall length and height are drawn true to scale from the published figures, and the end view uses the same scale. Axle count is as published; axle position, wheel size and the nose profile are schematic. This is a size drawing, not a floorplan, and not a claim about body shape.

Holding tanks

Holding tank capacities for the 2214Holding tank capacities: fresh 106 gallons, grey 74 gallons, black 37 gallons.Fresh106 galGrey74 galBlack37 gal
Published tank capacities on one scale. A full fresh tank is about 884 lbs of water — roughly 21% of this plan’s 4,255 lb cargo capacity, before you load anything else.

These graphics are generated from the same verified record that builds the table above, and are published under this site’s own licence — nothing here is traced from, or derived from, a manufacturer drawing or photo. Where a figure is not published for this plan, the graphic that would need it is omitted rather than estimated. The full record is in the published dataset.

What it takes to tow this

Built from this floorplan’s verified weights. We publish the trailer side only.

Minimum tow rating your vehicle needs11,700 lb
Published dry tongue weight1,045 lb
Loaded tongue weight, typical range1,170–1,755 lb
Minimum receiver hitch capacity11,700 lb towed / 1,755 lb tongue
The tongue weight above is dry. It is the figure the manufacturer publishes for an empty trailer. Loaded — with water, propane, batteries and your gear — it runs higher, which is why the range row uses loaded weight. Sizing your truck off the dry number under-budgets your payload.
The arithmetic that actually binds. Open your driver’s door and read the payload figure on the yellow-and-white sticker — that number is specific to your truck as built. Subtract from it: loaded tongue weight (use the range above), every passenger, everything in the bed and cab, and the weight-distributing hitch itself where one is used. What is left is your margin. Payload, not tow rating, is what most half-ton owners run out of first.

We do not publish tow ratings for specific trucks. A single model can vary by thousands of pounds depending on engine, axle ratio, cab, drivetrain and package — the only authoritative figure is the one on your own door jamb. Loaded tongue percentages are industry convention for travel trailers (10–15% of loaded weight), not a measurement of this unit. Hitch classes are not used here as a rating: SAE J684 covers trailers to 10,000 lb GVWR and does not define Class V, and capacity boundaries differ between manufacturers — read the rating stamped on your hitch.

03 The Cyclone floorplan family

Heartland publishes Cyclone as two separate lines that share no floorplan codes: the Cyclone fifth wheel and the Cyclone travel trailer. Both carry the same mandatory Ramp and Cargo Equipment package — a 30-gallon fuel tank with a locking enclosed pump and timer, garage D-rings and a Tuff-Ply rubberized floor liner — and both publish their weights completely, which is rarer than it should be. The 2214 on this page is highlighted; each profiled plan links to its own page. Heartland does not publish a garage length for any Cyclone, so that column is absent from this catalog rather than estimated.

FloorplanTypeLengthGVWRSleepsNotable
2214TT28 ft 1 in11,7004Entry Cyclone — the smallest and cheapest in the family
2615TT34 ft 8 in13,2504The larger trailer — most payload of the two, no published price
35115W41 ft 2 in17,8006Entry fifth wheel — the lightest pin of the three
39135W46 ft 5 in21,0008Most cargo capacity in the family — 5,565 lbs, sleeps eight
39145W46 ft 11 in21,0008The longest Cyclone — sleeps eight, heaviest pin
2816TT4Catalogued — the factory publishes no weights for this plan

The Cyclone travel trailer is the bumper-pull half of the family, published by Heartland as an entirely separate line sharing no floorplan codes with the fifth wheels. It carries the same mandatory Ramp and Cargo Equipment package - a 30-gallon fuel tank with a locking enclosed pump and timer, garage D-rings and a Tuff-Ply liner - and the same complete weight publication. Heartland publishes no garage length. Tongue weights are factory dry figures; weigh the loaded trailer and confirm against your vehicle's door-jamb placard.

04 What owners & reviewers report

Cargo capacity is published, not derived

7,445 dry plus 4,255 cargo equals the 11,700-pound GVWR exactly. Heartland publishes all four numbers, so nothing on this page is arithmetic.

No garage length — anywhere in the line

Heartland publishes no garage dimension for any Cyclone floorplan on any surface. The row is omitted rather than estimated or borrowed from a competitor.

The fuel tank is a package standard, not a plan spec

The 30-gallon tank comes from the mandatory Ramp and Cargo Equipment package, identical on every Cyclone. There is no per-plan fuel field in the Cyclone tables.

Slide count not published

The factory's Number of Slides field is unpopulated on every Cyclone and the number appears nowhere else on the page. We do not infer one.

SOURCING — ownership notes to be expanded with cited threads from owner communities & forums per the data plan

05 How it compares

↔ Cross-shop
Momentum G-Class 21G

Grand Design's entry trailer toy hauler — 11,000-pound GVWR, a published fourteen-foot garage and a 30-gallon fuel station, profiled here.

↔ Cross-shop
Momentum MAV 17MAV

Lighter and much cheaper, with more payload — but no fuel station at all, and it sleeps two.

→ Bigger sibling
Cyclone 2615

Six feet longer with 355 more pounds of cargo capacity — but Heartland publishes no base price for it.

06 Loading it for a trip

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 106-gallon fresh tank is roughly 21% of the 4,255-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 2214 with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

Weight budgetFigureWhat it means
Cargo capacity as published (CCC)4,255 lbEverything you add: gear, water, propane, batteries, food, people’s belongings.
Fresh tank filled (106 gal × 8.34 lb)−884 lbWater is the heaviest thing most owners add, and it is added first.
Cargo budget left with a full fresh tank3,371 lb21% of this plan’s capacity is spent before a single bag is loaded.
Per sleeping position, water aboard843 lbA rough share of what is left across the 4 berths this plan sleeps.

The published dry tongue weight of 1,045 pounds is 14% of the 7,445-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 11,700-pound GVWR the 2214 is towing 4,255 pounds more than its 7,445-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 106 gallons of fresh against 74 grey and 37 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

07 Where this floorplan sits

Of the 5 Cyclone floorplans profiled here, the 2214 is the lightest by GVWR at 11,700 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: Cyclone 2615 is 1,550 pounds heavier at 13,250 lb GVWR.

Comparable travel trailersGVWR (lb)Dry (lb)SleepsLength
221411,7007,445428 ft 1 in
Eagle 294CKBS11,7009,660437 ft 11 in
Seismic 21411,7007,4456—
Wolf Pack 27-12.511,6908,98838 ft 6 in
Salem Hemisphere & Heritage Glen 301FAM11,6659,893638 ft 10 in
Puma Vista 37PFL11,7499,74940 ft 0 in
Campsite Reserve 28SW11,6257,57837 ft 11 in

Against the 2214: the Eagle 294CKBS is 10 ft longer; the Seismic 214 sleeps 2 more; the Wolf Pack 27-12.5 is 10 lb lighter and 10 ft longer. 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 Cyclone floorplans profiled here run 7,445 to 15,970 pounds dry and 28 to 47 feet of exterior length across 5 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 Cyclone line hub.

08 Common questions about the 2214

How much does the 2214 weigh?

It leaves the factory at 7,445 pounds dry, and its manufacturer-set loaded ceiling (GVWR) is 11,700 pounds. Real towing weight lands between the two and depends entirely on what you load. Use the GVWR when matching a tow vehicle; the dry figure is only useful for comparing floorplans against each other.

How much can the 2214 carry?

Cargo carrying capacity is 4,255 pounds. That is the whole budget: water, propane, batteries, gear and everything you bring. Filling the 106-gallon fresh tank uses about 884 pounds of that.

What is the tongue weight of the 2214?

The published dry tongue weight is 1,045 pounds. It is measured empty; loaded, it runs higher, and it comes out of your tow vehicle’s payload rather than its tow rating.

What size tow vehicle does the 2214 need?

Your vehicle needs a tow rating of at least 11,700 pounds — this floorplan’s GVWR — and enough payload left over for the hitch load, passengers and anything in the bed. This site does not publish tow ratings for specific vehicles, because one truck model varies by thousands of pounds across engine, axle ratio, cab and package. The figure that governs is the payload sticker on your own door jamb.

How many people does the 2214 sleep?

It is rated to sleep 4. Rated sleeping positions include convertible furniture, so count the beds against how you actually travel rather than against the number.

What are the tank capacities on the 2214?

Fresh 106 gallons, grey 74 gallons, black 37 gallons. Tank sizes set how long the floorplan can sit away from hookups, and the smallest of the three is what ends the stay.

How long is the 2214?

Exterior length is 28 ft 1 in. Measure against your site length and your storage before committing — the exterior figure is the one that has to fit, and it includes the tongue or pin box.

Every figure in these answers is read from this page’s verified specification table. Where the manufacturer publishes nothing, the question is not answered rather than estimated.

09 What this page publishes, and what it does not

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the 2214. 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, refrigerator. 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 (97%) 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.

11 NHTSA safety record

This floorplan belongs to the Cyclone line, and NHTSA holds 17 recall campaigns and 65 owner complaints against that line. They are separate records and are not added together — a recall is a manufacturer-confirmed defect with a remedy; a complaint is one owner’s account, which NHTSA does not verify.

What to look at on a used one. Across the 65 complaints filed on this line the most-reported components are tires (45%), wheels (25%) and structure (11%). That is where owners of this family have had trouble, so it is where an inspection is worth the time.

Recall coverage is not complete — our harvest of NHTSA’s recall API ran 1,556 queries, of which 0 failed and 242 returned an explicit zero. A line can still be under-reported where NHTSA files a roster under a parent name, or where a match rests on the wording of the recall rather than its model field. Complaints come from the complete bulk file but are unverified and self-selected: a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy. Full tables are on the Cyclone line page.