Highland Ridge Mesa Ridge S-Lite

01 What Highland Ridge publishes for the Mesa Ridge S-Lite

Highland Ridge RV, a subsidiary of Jayco, Inc., of Shipshewana, Indiana, lists 7 Mesa Ridge S-Lite travel trailers in its 2023 Mesa Ridge S-Lite brochure. Highland Ridge prints a dry weight for every one profiled here, and each has a page of its own. It prints a GVWR for every one too. It prints a net carrying capacity for 7; on the 7 that carry both that and a GVWR, the dry weight plus the carrying capacity equals the GVWR exactly on 7. (How the data is verified.)

02 Highland Ridge Mesa Ridge S-Lite models

Highland Ridge Mesa Ridge S-Lite · 7 models

Model	Dry weight	Cargo (CCC)	GVWR	Tongue	Length	Sleeps	On this site
Mesa Ridge S-Lite 212FB	4,880 lb	1,520 lb	6,400 lb	505 lb	23' 3"	—	Profiled
Mesa Ridge S-Lite 225CK	5,090 lb	1,410 lb	6,500 lb	550 lb	27' 4"	—	Profiled
Mesa Ridge S-Lite 242RL	5,460 lb	1,540 lb	7,000 lb	655 lb	28' 10"	—	Profiled
Mesa Ridge S-Lite 241BH	5,685 lb	1,715 lb	7,400 lb	670 lb	29' 8"	—	Profiled
Mesa Ridge S-Lite 261BH	5,845 lb	1,655 lb	7,500 lb	840 lb	30' 8"	—	Profiled
Mesa Ridge S-Lite 262RL	6,015 lb	1,235 lb	7,250 lb	830 lb	31' 7"	—	Profiled
Mesa Ridge S-Lite 252RB	6,155 lb	1,345 lb	7,500 lb	715 lb	30' 9"	—	Profiled

Read from Highland Ridge’s 2023 Mesa Ridge S-Lite brochure, 5 Nov 2026. “Not published” means the maker prints no figure; nothing is filled from another model, year or dealer.

03 Reading Highland Ridge’s figures

A maker’s published weight is for a base trailer; options and dealer-installed equipment add weight to any particular unit. The federal weight label inside the trailer carries its own unloaded weight, cargo carrying capacity and GVWR (49 CFR 567 and 571.120): read it on the unit itself before any towing decision.

04 Documents

PDFHighland Ridge Mesa Ridge S-Lite brochure (2023)highlandridgerv.com · read 5 Nov 2026

05 Recalls

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign affecting this line. The earliest was reported 4 Aug 2022 and the most recent 4 Aug 2022.

Reported	Campaign	Component	What can go wrong
4 Aug 2022	22V573000	Structure	An awning that drops or extends beyond normal operation can increase the risk of injury.

Coverage is not complete: this list is a starting point, not a clearance (how it is built), so check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy and again before you tow.

This count covers campaigns NHTSA files under the Mesa Ridge S-Lite name only. Campaigns filed under the plain Mesa Ridge name count on the Mesa Ridge page.

06 Owner-reported problems

A sweep of NHTSA’s complete complaint file — every safety-defect complaint NHTSA has received since 1 January 1995, matched on NHTSA’s own model field under every name this site publishes for the line — found no complaint naming this line. Treat that as no report found, not as a clean record: owners file under whatever name they were sold, and a newer or lower-volume line simply has fewer owners to file.

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.

Related data guides

How these floorplans changed, model year by model year

This summary is built only from the maker records this site holds for the floorplans this page lists (Mesa Ridge S-Lite): 15 floorplan-year records covering 7 floorplans and the model years 2021 to 2023. Each floorplan page shows its own record and its earlier-year records in full. A model year with few floorplans here means this site holds few maker records for it, not that few were built; weights are the unloaded (dry) weights each record prints.

Model year	Floorplans recorded	Unloaded weight range	Median
2021	2	4,820 lb–5,705 lb	5,262 lb
2022	6	4,825 lb–5,985 lb	5,710 lb
2023	7	4,880 lb–6,155 lb	5,685 lb

Year over year, on the same floorplan codes:

2022 → 2023: of the 6 floorplans recorded in both years, the printed unloaded weight went up on 5, down on 1 and stayed the same on 0 (median change +48 lb).

What reviewers say

Independent reviews of this line, summarised in this site’s own words and linked to the original. Each says whether the reviewer actually towed or inspected the trailer. Reviews are opinions about the year and floorplan they looked at; every figure on this site still comes only from the maker’s own documents.

RV Travel (RVtravel.com) · 2022 (per the maker link in the article) 212FB · by Tony Barthel, 2022-04-30

Not a hands-on test: written from the maker’s information and the reviewer’s own research.

Tony Barthel calls the J-lounge the highlight of this Mesa Ridge S-Lite and likes the under-bed storage, sound bar, carpet-free floor, no floor heat registers, access with the slide closed and generous counters. He dislikes the curtain instead of a bedroom wall and the small oven and cheap vent fan, and notes no inverter is mentioned.

Liked

J-lounge
Clever under-bed storage
No carpet; no floor registers
Usable with slide closed; good counter space

Criticised

Curtain, not a wall, separates the bedroom
Small oven and cheap vent fan
No inverter mentioned

Read the review on rvtravel.com

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Highland Ridge Mesa Ridge S-Lite at a Glance — MY2023