2020 Highland RidgeMesa Ridge Lite MR2602RL

Highland Ridge lists the 2020 Mesa Ridge Lite MR2602RL at 6,035 lb dry, a GVWR of 7,400 lb, a net carrying capacity of 1,365 lb and a tongue weight of 760 lb. Its dry weight plus its carrying capacity comes to exactly its GVWR.

It is 11' 1" high. Highland Ridge prints its tanks as 51 gal fresh, 58 gal grey, 29 gal black.

Among the 7 Mesa Ridge Lite floorplans Highland Ridge’s Mesa Ridge Lite brochure (filed under 2020 on its own site; the brochure prints no year) lists with a published dry weight, it is number 4 from the lightest, in a range from 5,465 lb (Mesa Ridge Lite MR2410RL) to 6,815 lb (Mesa Ridge Lite MR2910RL). Every figure in that comparison is Highland Ridge’s, for the same model year.

Every number on this page was read on 5 Nov 2026 from Highland Ridge’s Mesa Ridge Lite brochure (filed under 2020 on its own site; the brochure prints no year); model year 2020 comes from where the maker files it on its own site, not from the document’s text.

How the MR2602RL differs from the other six Mesa Ridge Lite floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 18.4%: second-smallest of seven, between the MR2802BH (16.7%) and the MR2402BH (18.7%).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.6%: second-largest of seven, between the MR2910RL (12.5%) and the MR2402BH (13.7%).
• Cargo capacity, 1,365 lb: third-smallest of seven, between the MR2402BH (1,355 lb) and the MR2102RB and MR2804RK (1,440 lb).
• Tongue weight, 760 lb: third-heaviest of seven, between the MR2804RK (700 lb) and the MR2402BH (805 lb).
• Dry weight, 6,035 lb: fourth-lightest of seven, between the MR2402BH (5,895 lb) and the MR2804RK (6,160 lb).
• GVWR, 7,400 lb: shared with the MR2410RL; of seven, two lower and three higher, nearest the MR2402BH (7,250 lb) and the MR2802BH (7,450 lb).

Next to the MR2402BH, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the MR2602RL is 140 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 150 lb higher, has 10 lb more cargo capacity and has a tongue weight 45 lb lighter; the two publish the same exterior height, interior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the MR2804RK, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the MR2602RL is 125 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 200 lb lower, has 75 lb less cargo capacity and has a tongue weight 60 lb heavier; the two publish the same exterior height, interior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Highland Ridge’s Mesa Ridge Lite brochure (filed under 2020 on its own site; the brochure prints no year) lists 7 Mesa Ridge Lite floorplans; every one with a printed weight has a page here.

A full 51-gallon fresh tank is about 423 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 31% of the Mesa Ridge Lite MR2602RL’s 1,365 lb cargo capacity, leaving 942 lb. Across 7 Mesa Ridge Lite floorplans the water share runs 21% to 34%, and 2 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Mesa Ridge Lite MR2102RB at 29% and Mesa Ridge Lite MR2402BH at 31%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).

The maker’s own owner’s manual for each model year on this page, linked where the maker publishes it. Each link goes to the maker’s file, labelled as the maker labels it; a year with no manual of its own is not filled from another year.