2026 Forest River EVO135ICE

The EVO 135ICE has 1,361 lbs of cargo capacity between 2,504 lbs dry and its 3,865 lbs GVWR, 35% of that rating; filling its 41-gallon fresh tank at 8.3 lb a gallon uses 340 lbs of it (how to read trailer weights).

Tongue weight is 365 lbs, 15% of the dry weight as published; it rises as the trailer is loaded and counts against the tow vehicle’s tongue-weight and payload limits (tongue weight by size).

Off hookups: 60 gallons of grey and black capacity against 41 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the EVO roster this is the 1st of 18 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,504 lbs to 7,433 lbs. It is the lightest plan in the line, which makes it the one to look at first if the tow vehicle is the constraint.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 2,504 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 3,184 lbs, and the published GVWR of 3,865 lbs is the limit (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly. A missing row means Forest River does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

Forest River publishes no floorplan description for this plan in the channel this page is built from - only the numeric specification block. Rather than describe a layout from the floorplan code, which would be a guess dressed as a fact, this page carries what the factory publishes and says where it stops. 135ICE is a EVO designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 135ICE differs from the other seventeen EVO floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 2,504 lb: lightest of eighteen; next is the 164FBLE (2,988 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 14.6%: largest of eighteen; next is the 179DB (14%).
• Length, 16 ft: shortest of eighteen; next is the 164FBLE (20 ft 2 in).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 35.2%: second-largest of eighteen, between the 260ICE (31.8%) and the 233RBLE (37.3%).
• GVWR, 3,865 lb: lowest of eighteen, level with the 164FBLE; next is the 174DBLE (3,935 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,361 lb: fifth-smallest of eighteen, between the 163RD (1,323 lb) and the 179DB (1,377 lb).
• Tongue weight, 365 lb: lightest of eighteen, level with the 164FBLE; next is the 163RD (420 lb).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 3 in: shared with the 174DBLE; of eighteen, two lower and fourteen taller, nearest the 164FBLE and 179DB (10 ft 2 in) and the 25ICE, 26ICE and two others (10 ft 4 in).
• Fresh tank, 41 gal: eighth-largest of eighteen, between the 25ICE, 260ICE and 26ICE (40 gal) and the 2700BHX and 2750QBX (44 gal).
• Grey tank, 30 gal: shared with the 164FBLE, 174DBLE and 2750QBX; of eighteen, one smaller and thirteen larger, nearest the 179DB (27 gal) and the 178BHS and 2985VBX (32 gal).
• Black tank, 30 gal: shared with the 164FBLE, 174DBLE and five others; of eighteen, four smaller and six larger, nearest the 163RD, 165VW and two others (27 gal) and the 2290ER, 2405BHX and two others (32 gal).

Next to the 164FBLE, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 135ICE is 484 lb lighter by dry weight, has 484 lb more cargo capacity, is 4 ft 2 in shorter, stands 1 in taller and has a fresh tank 2 gal larger; the two publish the same GVWR, tongue weight, grey tank and black tank.

EVO is not one roster but four, and the factory publishes them under separate headings: EVO, EVO Lites, EVO Selects and EVO Singles. That matters for anyone shopping by weight, because the sub-family a plan belongs to predicts its weight class more reliably than its floorplan number does - the Singles run single-axle and light, the base EVO group runs tandem-axle and heavier, and a buyer comparing two EVO plans by number alone can be a full tow class out.

A full 41-gallon fresh tank is about 340 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 25% of the 135ICE’s 1,361 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,021 lb. Across 18 EVO floorplans the water share runs 11% to 46%, and 3 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: EVO 163RD at 24% and EVO 165VW at 27%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).