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2026 Hideout212RKS

A front-master, rear-kitchen couples' trailer with dual entry: a private bedroom up front, a full galley across the back and a center walk-through bath, all on a half-ton-friendly 25-foot dual-axle Hideout.

Tow-Critical Data — as built, MY2026

5,360lb
Dry Weight
7,500lb
GVWR
2,140lb
Payload
25ft
Length
Sleeps 3 Tandem-axle · 1 slide Built by · Keystone Fresh · 45 gal MSRP · Dealer-quoted

01 What makes it unique

The Hideout 212RKS is a front private bedroom, a rear kitchen, a mid walk-through bath and two entry doors — a 25-foot travel trailer aimed at couples who want a real rear galley and a private front bedroom in a light trailer. The rear kitchen and center bath keep the Olympic-queen front bedroom separate from the living and cooking space, and the second door drops you straight into the galley.

It carries the Hideout dual-axle build — laminated filon sidewalls on a powder-coated steel frame, a walkable roof and an enclosed underbelly, on tandem axles. At 5,360 pounds dry against a 7,500-pound GVWR it leaves 2,140 pounds of cargo capacity, and the dry tongue weight is 620 pounds. A 10 cu ft refrigerator and 15K BTU air conditioning round out the equipment.

A figure worth stating plainly: Shipping weight (5,360 lb) and the 7,500-lb GVWR are both Keystone-published on the 2026 factory page (GVWR = shipping + the 2,140-lb carrying capacity, a round number). The factory page lists sleeps 3; some dealers show sleeps 5 -- confirm the berth count and the loaded weight against the unit's sticker. As with every lightweight trailer, the published tongue weight is a pre-production dry estimate — once water, gear and passengers are aboard, real loaded tongue weight runs higher and lands on the tow vehicle's payload, so weigh the loaded trailer and match it to your truck honestly before relying on the brochure number. For couples who want a real rear galley and a private front bedroom in a light trailer, the 212RKS is a well-targeted pick within the Keystone value stack.

02 Full specifications

Dimensions

Exterior length
25' 6"
Exterior height
10' 8"
Slide-outs
1
Awnings
1

Weights

Dry / unit base weight (UVW)
5,360 lbs
GVWR (max loaded)
7,500 lbs
Net cargo / payload (CCC)
2,140 lbs
Hitch / dry tongue weight
620 lbs

Capacities

Fresh water
45 gal
Grey water
69 gal
Black water
30 gal
Refrigerator
10 cu ft

Construction

Walls
Laminated filon
Roof
Walkable 1-pc
Underbelly
Enclosed
Frame
Powder-coated steel

Running gear

Axles
2 (tandem)
Hitch
Bumper pull
Suspension
Leaf spring
Stabilizers
Power / manual

Electrical & comfort

Air conditioning
15K BTU
Service
30-amp
Water heater
Gas / DSI
Heating
Ducted furnace

Sleeping & layout

Sleeps
3
Layout
Front private master bedroom, rear kitchen, mid walk-through bath, dual entry
Slides
1
Axles
2 (tandem)

Verified specs, drawn to scale

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

Loaded weight budget

Loaded weight budget for the 212RKSHorizontal bar. Dry weight 5,360 pounds, then cargo capacity 2,140 pounds, against a GVWR of 7,500 pounds. Dry tongue weight 620 pounds on the same scale.GVWR 7,500 lbsDry 5,360 lbsCargo capacity 2,140 lbsDry tongue weight 620 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 212RKSScale outline of the 212RKS. Overall length 25' 6", overall height 10' 8". 2 axles as published.25' 6" overall length10' 8"
Overall length and height are drawn true to scale from the published figures, no exterior width is published for this plan, so no end view is drawn. 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 212RKSHolding tank capacities: fresh 45 gallons, grey 69 gallons, black 30 gallons.Fresh45 galGrey69 galBlack30 gal
Published tank capacities on one scale. A full fresh tank is about 375 lbs of water — roughly 18% of this plan’s 2,140 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 needs7,500 lb
Published dry tongue weight620 lb
Loaded tongue weight, typical range750–1,125 lb
Minimum receiver hitch capacity7,500 lb towed / 1,125 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 Hideout floorplan family

Keystone's Hideout covers a dual-axle family line and a lighter single-axle line (filed by RVUSA as Hideout Mini, marketed for 2026 as Hideout Sport) for SUV towing. The plan on this page is highlighted; each profiled plan links to its own page. The full Hideout catalog runs to dozens of floorplans — the highest-demand layouts are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the Hideout hub.

FloorplanSub-lineDry wtLengthSleepsNotable
24RBSHideout6,079 lbs*28' 11"6a full rear bath layout with a sofa, laundry chute, pa…
25RDSHideout6,122 lbs*29' 5"6a U-shaped dinette layout with a walk-through bath and…
262BHSHideout6,205 lbs30' 11"9a front-bedroom bunkhouse with a large pantry and a si…
230BHHideout4,776 lbs27' 6"9a front-queen bunkhouse with rear double-over-double b…
22MLSHideout5,477 lbs26' 2"6a front private king bedroom with a rear kitchen, thea…
212RKSHideout5,360 lbs25' 6"3a front private bedroom, a rear kitchen, a mid walk-th…
175BHHideout (single-axle)3,020 lbs20' 6"6a single-axle bunkhouse with rear corner double bunks,…
178RBHideout (single-axle)3,024 lbs20' 11"4a single-axle front-bedroom layout with a rear bath an…
176BHHideout (single-axle)3,494 lbs20' 11"6a single-axle bunkhouse with a front queen, rear corne…
181BHHideout (single-axle)3,991 lbs22' 9"8a single-axle double bunkhouse with a front bedroom an…

Figures for profiled plans are verified against RVUSA structured spec records (2026); dry weight and MSRP, where RVUSA omits them, are from Keystone factory listings and dealers, with GVWR derived as dry plus payload and flagged where the dry figure is a near-variant. Options affect final weights — always confirm against the unit's own weight sticker.

04 What owners & reviewers report

The layout

A front-master, rear-kitchen couples' trailer with dual entry: a private bedroom up front, a full galley across the back and a center walk-through bath, all on a half-ton-friendly 25-foot dual-axle Hideout.

Built for couples who want a real rear galley and a private front bedroom in a light trailer

The rear kitchen and center bath keep the Olympic-queen front bedroom separate from the living and cooking space, and the second door drops you straight into the galley.

Verify the loaded tongue weight before you tow

Keystone publishes tongue weight as a pre-production dry estimate; real loaded tongue weight runs higher and lands on the tow vehicle's payload. Weigh the loaded trailer and check it against your truck's rating before relying on the brochure figure.

On the weight figures

Shipping weight (5,360 lb) and the 7,500-lb GVWR are both Keystone-published on the 2026 factory page (GVWR = shipping + the 2,140-lb carrying capacity, a round number). The factory page lists sleeps 3; some dealers show sleeps 5 -- confirm the berth count and the loaded weight against the unit's sticker.

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

05 How it compares

↔ Cross-shop
Springdale 2120RKS

The Springdale dual-door rear-kitchen plan — a near-identical front-bedroom, rear-galley, dual-entry layout on a steel value frame.

↔ Cross-shop
Hideout 22MLS

The front-king sibling — a private king and rear kitchen rather than an Olympic queen, similar weight and length.

↑ Step up
Hideout 262BHS

The family bunkhouse of the dual-axle line — bunks and a higher sleep count for families rather than a couples' galley.

06 Loading it for a trip

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 45-gallon fresh tank is roughly 18% of the 2,140-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 212RKS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

Weight budgetFigureWhat it means
Cargo capacity as published (CCC)2,140 lbEverything you add: gear, water, propane, batteries, food, people’s belongings.
Fresh tank filled (45 gal × 8.34 lb)−375 lbWater is the heaviest thing most owners add, and it is added first.
Cargo budget left with a full fresh tank1,765 lb18% of this plan’s capacity is spent before a single bag is loaded.
Per sleeping position, water aboard588 lbA rough share of what is left across the 3 berths this plan sleeps.

The published dry tongue weight of 620 pounds is 12% of the 5,360-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 7,500-pound GVWR the 212RKS is towing 2,140 pounds more than its 5,360-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 45 gallons of fresh against 69 grey and 30 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

Ranked by GVWR, the 212RKS sits 7 of 10 in the Hideout line: 7,500 pounds against a line that runs from 4,350 to 7,700 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: Hideout 24RBS is 35 pounds lighter at 7,465 lb GVWR; and Hideout 22MLS matches it exactly at 7,500 lb GVWR.

1 other Hideout plan shares this floorplan’s 7,500 lb GVWR, so the ranking above separates plans that tow to the same ceiling. On a shared chassis the figure that actually differs between them is cargo capacity and where the weight sits, not the rating.

Comparable travel trailersGVWR (lb)Dry (lb)SleepsLength
212RKS7,5005,360325 ft 6 in
Coachmen Freedom Express Ultra Lite 245RKS7,5005,980428 ft 5 in
Jay Feather 22BH7,5005,565728 ft 10 in
Jay Flight 236TH7,5005,060428 ft 4 in
North Trail 250CK7,5005,925430 ft 1 in
Springdale 2120RKS7,5005,450525 ft 6 in
White Hawk 25MBH7,5006,195830 ft 8 in

Against the 212RKS: the Coachmen Freedom Express Ultra Lite 245RKS is 3 ft longer and sleeps 1 more; the Jay Feather 22BH is 3 ft longer and sleeps 4 more; the Jay Flight 236TH is 3 ft longer and sleeps 1 more. 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 Hideout floorplans profiled here run 3,020 to 6,205 pounds dry and 20 to 31 feet of exterior length across 10 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 Hideout line hub.

08 Common questions about the 212RKS

How much does the 212RKS weigh?

It leaves the factory at 5,360 pounds dry, and its manufacturer-set loaded ceiling (GVWR) is 7,500 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 212RKS carry?

Cargo carrying capacity is 2,140 pounds. That is the whole budget: water, propane, batteries, gear and everything you bring. Filling the 45-gallon fresh tank uses about 375 pounds of that.

What is the tongue weight of the 212RKS?

The published dry tongue weight is 620 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 212RKS need?

Your vehicle needs a tow rating of at least 7,500 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 212RKS sleep?

It is rated to sleep 3. 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 212RKS?

Fresh 45 gallons, grey 69 gallons, black 30 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 212RKS?

Exterior length is 25' 6". 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 15 of them for the 212RKS. 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: exterior width, interior height, tire specification. 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.

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

11 NHTSA safety record

This floorplan belongs to the Hideout line, and NHTSA holds 24 recall campaigns and 11 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 11 complaints filed on this line the most-reported components are structure (36%), equipment (27%) and electrical system (9%). 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 Hideout line page.