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Forest RiverIBEX

IBEX is Forest River's lightweight four-season travel trailer, built at the company's Outdoors RV-adjacent end of the travel-trailer range rather than in the value tier. The roster runs from a 16-foot single-axle at under 4,100 lb dry to a tandem-axle 26-footer, so the whole line stays inside half-ton and mid-size-SUV territory on paper. Forest River publishes a full weight and capacity block for every floorplan, which is why this line could be catalogued completely rather than partially.

The IBEX Line at a Glance — MY2026

TT
Bumper-pull
22plans
2026 IBEX
11,700lb
GVWR (max)
14-40ft
Length range
Built by · Forest River Type · Lightweight four-season travel trailer Parent · Berkshire Hathaway Exterior · Laminated fiberglass

01 What IBEX is

IBEX is Forest River's lightweight four-season travel trailer, built at the company's Outdoors RV-adjacent end of the travel-trailer range rather than in the value tier. The roster runs from a 16-foot single-axle at under 4,100 lb dry to a tandem-axle 26-footer, so the whole line stays inside half-ton and mid-size-SUV territory on paper. Forest River publishes a full weight and capacity block for every floorplan, which is why this line could be catalogued completely rather than partially.

Across the whole IBEX roster the published dry weights run from 2,094 lbs to 9,975 lbs, cargo capacities from 747 lbs to 1,802 lbs, and dry tongue weights from 275 lbs to 1,380 lbs. Exterior lengths run 14 to 40 feet. Those are Forest River's figures for a standard build, captured from the factory roster block and confirmed against each floorplan's own factory page.

Forest River publishes a GVWR for 20 of the 22 floorplans, and on 20 of those the arithmetic ties out exactly: dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published rating to the pound. That check is run on every plan before it is profiled here, and a plan that fails it is catalogued with the disagreement printed rather than quietly corrected.

02 Floorplans profiled in depth

16 of the 22 IBEX floorplans are profiled in full below, each on its own page with the complete factory weight, dimension and tank block. The profiled set is spread across the weight range rather than taken from one end of it, so the lightest and heaviest plans in the line are both represented. Every plan profiled here publishes a full field set and, where Forest River publishes a GVWR, passes the dry-plus-cargo arithmetic check.

FloorplanDry wtLengthCargoTongue wtGVWR
16MRJ3,77819' 10"1,8024805,580
16MKS4,01320' 6"9125254,925
16MKD4,02321' 8"1,5005705,523
16MBJ4,08821' 8"1,4974855,585
19QRB4,16824' 2"7475154,915
19MBH4,48424' 8"1,5005855,984
19MSB4,80924' 8"1,2757106,084
19BRK4,87825' 0"1,5006106,378
20MKB4,91325' 0"1,5005506,413
20MDS4,96324' 3"1,5006306,463
23MBH5,10826' 2"1,4927506,600
20FKDS5,67827' 7"1,5008007,178
25RLSS5,74329' 0"1,5008507,243
25RBH6,33832' 11"1,5001,0307,838
25MLB6,47329' 9"1,5006457,973
26BRE6,73332' 6"1,5007608,233

Every figure in this table is a Forest River factory publication for 2026, captured twice - from the line roster block and from each floorplan's own factory page - and cross-checked field by field. Forest River publishes no sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size or MSRP for this line, so there are no columns for them.

03 Also in the 2026 line

The remaining 6 IBEX floorplans are catalogued here from the factory's published figures. 4 of them are Forest River dealer-stock-only plans, which are real floorplans but are not orderable through the normal channel. A plan is catalogued rather than profiled when the factory has not yet published its full field set, when its own published figures disagree with each other, or simply because the profiled set is capped. Nothing in this table is estimated.

FloorplanDry wtGVWRCargoTongue wtStatus
24BHBNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedAnnounced, weights not yet published
27RBSLNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedAnnounced, weights not yet published
10RK (dealer stock)2,0943,5941,500275Dealer stock only
16RKB (dealer stock)3,0244,5241,500335Dealer stock only
20MRK (dealer stock)5,1136,6131,500735Dealer stock only
RVS3 (dealer stock)9,97511,7001,7251,380Dealer stock only

Catalogued plans carry the factory figures Forest River publishes and nothing else. A row reading “Not published” means the factory does not publish that field for that plan - it is never a placeholder for a figure this site could not be bothered to find.

04 How to choose

Sort this line by the constraint you actually have. If the tow vehicle is fixed, start at the weight column: the lightest plan in the roster is the 10RK - DSO at 2,094 lbs dry and the heaviest is the RVS3 - DSO at 9,975 lbs, and that spread is wide enough that the two ends are not the same buying decision. If the tow vehicle is not fixed, sort by cargo capacity instead - the 16MRJ carries the most at 1,802 lbs, and payload is the number that runs out first on a long trip.

Do not sort by floorplan number. Forest River's codes encode length loosely and layout not at all, and this site does not decode them into layout claims. Two plans with adjacent numbers in this roster can differ by hundreds of pounds of dry weight and by more than that in dry tongue weight, which is the figure that determines what the tow vehicle has to be.

Where Forest River publishes a floorplan description it is quoted on the plan page and identified as factory marketing copy rather than a specification. Where it publishes none, the plan page says so instead of describing a layout that nobody has verified. That is the difference between a catalogue and a brochure.

05 What to weigh before buying

What this line is

IBEX is Forest River's lightweight travel-trailer line. Twenty-two floorplans are published for 2027, including four dealer-stock-only plans that are catalogued here but are not orderable through the normal channel. Forest River publishes dry weight, GVWR, cargo capacity, dry tongue weight, all three exterior dimensions and all three tank capacities for the roster. It publishes no sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size or MSRP in this channel, so those rows are absent rather than estimated.

The four fields Forest River does not publish

Sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size and MSRP are absent from Forest River's specification channel for IBEX. They are absent from this site too. None of the four is estimated from the segment, inferred from a sibling floorplan or lifted from a dealer listing quoting its own guess back. Tire size matters most of the four: two codes a digit apart are different tires with different load ratings, and a misread is a safety claim.

Match the tow vehicle honestly

The plans here run from 2,094 lbs to 9,975 lbs dry with dry tongue weights of 275 lbs to 1,380 lbs. Dry weight is not towing weight - water, batteries, propane, gear and dealer-installed accessories all sit on top of it, and tongue weight rises with them. Forest River's own footnote calls unloaded weight an estimated average for a standard build. Read your own door sticker rather than a brochure maximum, and weigh the trailer loaded the way you actually travel.

06 What every IBEX has

HitchBumper pullWeight-distribution recommended
WeightsFactory publishedDry, cargo and tongue per plan
DimensionsFactory publishedLength, height and width per plan
TanksThree publishedFresh, grey and black per plan
AxlesNot publishedAbsent rather than estimated
TiresNot publishedNever guessed - safety relevant
SleepsNot publishedNo factory sleeping capacity
MSRPNot publishedNo factory price in this channel

08 Recalls

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns affecting this line. The earliest was reported 11 Jun 2021 and the most recent 23 Jul 2026.

ReportedCampaignComponentWhat can go wrong
23 Jul 202626V476000EquipmentIncorrect water tank capacity information can allow the vehicle to be overloaded and increase the risk of a crash.
22 Jun 202626V398000Electrical systemElectrical shock increases the risk of injury.
17 Apr 202424V272000EquipmentA circuit board that overheats increases the risk of a fire.
23 Feb 202424V137000EquipmentInadequate clearance around the heaters increases the risk of a fire.
19 Jan 202424V029000SuspensionA detached independent suspension can increase the risk of a crash.
29 Jul 202222V556000EquipmentAn awning that drops or extends beyond normal operation can increase the risk of injury.
8 Jul 202222V486000EquipmentAn awning that drops or extends beyond normal operation can increase the risk of injury.
11 Jun 202121V442000SuspensionLoose shackle nuts can fall off the shackle bolt, causing the axle to detach and increasing the risk of a crash.

Coverage is not complete, and this matters. These campaigns come from two passes over NHTSA’s public record: a query-by-query harvest of the recall API (1,556 queries, of which 0 failed and 242 returned an explicit zero), and a sweep of NHTSA’s complete recall flat file (325,650 rows), which added 46 campaigns the API harvest had missed. It missed them because the roster it worked from was built by a catalog endpoint that refuses most requests, so entire manufacturer names were never asked about — NHTSA files several Forest River sub-brands as makes of their own. Two limits remain: NHTSA sometimes files a roster under a parent name, and some matches below rest on the wording of the recall rather than its model field. Campaigns affecting only pre-2005 units fall outside this catalog’s range and are not listed. This page is a starting point, not a clearance. Check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy, and again before you tow.

09 Owner-reported problems

Owners have filed 3 complaints with NHTSA about this line. The earliest was filed 10 Jul 2021 and the most recent 14 Jul 2025. The breakdown below is what those owners actually reported, grouped by the component NHTSA assigned.

What gets reported

Component groupReportsShare
Unknown or other3100%

Most recent reports

The 3 owner reports filed on this line, newest first. Wording is NHTSA’s summary of what the owner described.

FiledComponentMilesWhat the owner reported
14 Jul 2025Unknown or otherA new travel trailer was sold while there was a stop sale recall notice on it. The heaters in the bedroom and bathroom represent a fire hazard. This was only discovered after registering the purchase with the manufacturer. The warranty/service personnel from United RV disputed this claim even…
28 Feb 2023Unknown or other2022 forest river ibex. Consumer writes in regard to co leak.
10 Jul 2021Unknown or otherThere were so many QC issues I can't even list here but I opened the back to find the microwave door open and hanging my one bent hinge with the other broken. Then my door started sticking and it got progressively worse. It then became apparent that the frame was separating from the walls creating…

How this count is drawn. A report is counted here only when NHTSA’s own model field names this line. What the owner typed in the description is never used to attribute a report: our line names are ordinary English words, and an owner writing “imagine my surprise when the axle went” or naming the state of Montana is not reporting a Grand Design Imagine or a Keystone Montana.

Read these as reports, not as findings. Complaints are submitted by owners and NHTSA does not verify them; no complaint here has been confirmed as a defect, and none of them is a recall. The sample is also self-selected — only owners motivated to file appear in it — so a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Use the pattern, not the total: a component that keeps recurring is worth inspecting on any used unit. File or search complaints at NHTSA.