2026 Forest River EVO2290ER

The EVO 2290ER has 2,508 lbs of cargo capacity between 5,942 lbs dry and its 8,450 lbs GVWR, 30% of that rating; filling its 61-gallon fresh tank at 8.3 lb a gallon uses 506 lbs of it (how to read trailer weights).

Tongue weight is 650 lbs, 11% 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: 96 gallons of grey and black capacity against 61 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the EVO roster this is the 11th of 18 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,504 lbs to 7,433 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 5,942 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 7,196 lbs, and the published GVWR of 8,450 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. 2290ER is a EVO designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 2290ER differs from the other seventeen EVO floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 10.9%: second-smallest of eighteen, between the 163RD (10%) and the 233RBLE and 2920VB (11%).
• Cargo capacity, 2,508 lb: third-largest of eighteen, between the 2480VBX (2,416 lb) and the 233RBLE (2,806 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 29.7%: fourth-largest of eighteen, between the 2480VBX (28.2%) and the 260ICE (31.8%).
• GVWR, 8,450 lb: fifth-highest of eighteen, between the 26ICE (7,785 lb) and the 2985VBX (8,571 lb).
• Exterior height, 11 ft 1 in: tallest of eighteen, level with the 260ICE; next is the 2920VB (11 ft).
• Fresh tank, 61 gal: largest of eighteen, level with the 2480VBX, 2920VB and 2985VBX; next is the 233RBLE (54 gal).
• Grey tank, 64 gal: shared with the 2480VBX and 2920VB; of eighteen, fourteen smaller and one larger, nearest the 25ICE, 260ICE and two others (60 gal) and the 2405BHX (74 gal).
• Dry weight, 5,942 lb: eighth-heaviest of eighteen, between the 2405BHX (5,888 lb) and the 2750QBX (5,975 lb).
• Tongue weight, 650 lb: ninth-lightest of eighteen, between the 178BHS (570 lb) and the 2750QBX (680 lb).
• Length, 28 ft 5 in: ninth-shortest of eighteen, between the 233RBLE (28 ft 3 in) and the 2405BHX (28 ft 11 in).
• Black tank, 32 gal: shared with the 2405BHX, 2480VBX and 2920VB; of eighteen, twelve smaller and two larger, nearest the 135ICE, 164FBLE and six others (30 gal) and the 2985VBX (40 gal).

Next to the 2405BHX, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 2290ER is 54 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 710 lb higher, has 656 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 90 lb lighter, is 6 in shorter, stands 5 in taller, has a fresh tank 22 gal larger and has a grey tank 10 gal smaller; the two publish the same black tank.

Next to the 2750QBX, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 2290ER is 33 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 770 lb higher, has 803 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 30 lb lighter, is 4 ft 10 in shorter, stands 9 in taller, has a fresh tank 17 gal larger, has a grey tank 34 gal larger and has a black tank 2 gal larger.

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 61-gallon fresh tank is about 506 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 20% of the 2290ER’s 2,508 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,002 lb. Across 18 EVO floorplans the water share runs 11% to 46%, and 13 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: EVO 2700BHX at 20% and EVO 2480VBX at 21%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).