2026 East to West Longitude255BH

The Longitude 255BH leaves East to West's factory at 6,068 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 7,650 lbs and 1,582 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 21% of the loaded rating, and East to West's own definition is worth reading before you plan against it: cargo capacity is what remains for fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory. Fresh water alone is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling this trailer's 53-gallon fresh tank spends 440 lbs of that 1,582 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry tongue weight is 650 lbs, or 11% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits inside it as published. Tongue weight is not fixed: it moves with how the trailer is loaded, and weight added ahead of the axles raises it. A weight-distribution hitch is the normal fitment at this tongue load, and the tow vehicle's tongue-weight limit is a separate number from its trailer-weight limit.

Tank capacities are 53 gallons fresh, 60 grey and 30 black, 90 gallons of waste capacity against 53 gallons of supply. The ratio is what governs how long the trailer can sit off hookups: waste capacity exceeds fresh, so the fresh tank is the binding constraint and refilling extends the stay. East to West publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Longitude roster this is the 2nd of 7 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 5,293 lbs to 8,033 lbs. It sits in the lighter third of the line. Comparing floorplans inside one line is more reliable than comparing across brands, because every figure here comes from the same factory channel on the same day.

A useful way to read the pair of weights is to stop planning against the dry figure. Nobody tows a trailer at 6,068 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity, which is modest for a family trip, and this plan is already near 6,859 lbs on the road. Compare that number against the tow vehicle, not the dry weight, and leave margin on top of it - the published GVWR of 7,650 lbs is a limit rather than a target.

Every number above was captured twice from East to West and checked against itself before it was published. The line roster block and the individual floorplan page are two separate factory renderings of the same trailer, and this plan's 4 shared figures agree exactly on both. Dry weight plus cargo capacity also equals the published GVWR exactly, which is the arithmetic check this site runs on every profiled floorplan. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because East to West does not publish it in this channel, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

East to West 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. 255BH is a Longitude designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Longitude is the only East to West line on this site that publishes a GVWR, and it is worth saying plainly what that buys you: on all seven plans where East to West publishes one, dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly. That arithmetic tying out is the difference between a loaded rating you can plan a tow around and a number somebody added up. GVWR runs 7,650 to 11,335 lb across the seven, against dry weights of 5,293 to 8,033 lb and cargo capacity of 1,367 to 3,572 lb. Tongue weight runs 650 to 935 lb, all bumper pull. Three more floorplans are published on the roster with no weights at all yet, and they are listed as announced rather than given specifications they do not have.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 53-gallon fresh tank is roughly 28% of the 1,582-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 255BH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 650 pounds is 11% of the 6,068-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 7,650-pound GVWR the 255BH is towing 1,582 pounds more than its 6,068-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 53 gallons of fresh against 60 grey and 30 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 7 Longitude floorplans profiled here, the 255BH is the lightest by GVWR at 7,650 pounds — the entry point to the line and the one most likely to suit a vehicle already at its limit.

Either side of it in the same line: Longitude 185RB is 90 pounds heavier at 7,740 lb GVWR.

Against the 255BH: the Puma Tracks 2750BHS is 2 ft longer; the Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 244RBS is 4 lb heavier. 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 Longitude floorplans profiled here run 5,293 to 8,033 pounds dry and 24 to 38 feet of exterior length across 7 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 Longitude line hub.

Named sources publish 11 of the 18 specification fields this catalogue tracks for the 255BH (85% complete on the full field set).

Not published for this floorplan: interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning. Those rows are left blank rather than copied from a sibling floorplan.

Sourcing rules: methodology.