2026 Forest River EVO26ICE

The EVO 26ICE has 1,497 lbs of cargo capacity between 6,288 lbs dry and its 7,785 lbs GVWR, 19% of that rating; filling its 40-gallon fresh tank at 8.3 lb a gallon uses 332 lbs of it (how to read trailer weights).

Tongue weight is 785 lbs, 12% 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: 90 gallons of grey and black capacity against 40 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the EVO roster this is the 15th of 18 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,504 lbs to 7,433 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 6,288 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 7,036 lbs, and the published GVWR of 7,785 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. 26ICE is a EVO designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 26ICE differs from the other seventeen EVO floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 19.2%: second-smallest of eighteen, between the 174DBLE (17.9%) and the 25ICE (19.8%).
• Tongue weight, 785 lb: third-heaviest of eighteen, between the 2480VBX (775 lb) and the 2920VB (815 lb).
• Dry weight, 6,288 lb: fourth-heaviest of eighteen, between the 25ICE (6,178 lb) and the 2985VBX (6,375 lb).
• Length, 32 ft 9 in: fourth-longest of eighteen, between the 2700BHX (31 ft 9 in) and the 2750QBX (33 ft 3 in).
• GVWR, 7,785 lb: sixth-highest of eighteen, between the 2405BHX (7,740 lb) and the 2290ER (8,450 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,497 lb: eighth-smallest of eighteen, between the 178BHS (1,488 lb) and the 25ICE (1,522 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.5%: eighth-largest of eighteen, between the 165VW (12.4%) and the 2405BHX and 2480VBX (12.6%).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 4 in: shared with the 25ICE, 2700BHX and 2750QBX; of eighteen, four lower and ten taller, nearest the 135ICE and 174DBLE (10 ft 3 in) and the 233RBLE (10 ft 6 in).
• Grey tank, 60 gal: shared with the 25ICE, 260ICE and 2700BHX; of eighteen, ten smaller and four larger, nearest the 163RD and 165VW (54 gal) and the 2290ER, 2480VBX and 2920VB (64 gal).
• Fresh tank, 40 gal: shared with the 25ICE and 260ICE; of eighteen, seven smaller and eight larger, nearest the 163RD, 164FBLE and five others (39 gal) and the 135ICE (41 gal).
• Black tank, 30 gal: shared with the 135ICE, 164FBLE 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 25ICE, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 26ICE is 110 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 85 lb higher, has 25 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 85 lb heavier and is 2 ft 11 in longer; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 2985VBX, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 26ICE is 87 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 786 lb lower, has 699 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 14 lb heavier, is 1 ft 1 in shorter, stands 5 in lower, has a fresh tank 21 gal smaller, has a grey tank 28 gal larger and has a black tank 10 gal smaller.

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 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 22% of the 26ICE’s 1,497 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,165 lb. Across 18 EVO floorplans the water share runs 11% to 46%, and 8 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: EVO 25ICE at 22% and EVO 2985VBX at 23%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).