2026 WinnebagoMinnie 2301BHS

The Minnie 2301BHS is the line's mid-size family plan, and the one that moves mealtime outdoors: it is one of only two 2026 Minnies fitted with the campside outdoor griddle cooktop and a 1.6-cubic-foot exterior refrigerator (the big 2801BHS is the other), so pancakes and burgers happen under the awning instead of in the cabin. Inside, a queen bedroom takes the front, the rear carries a dedicated bunkhouse, and the slide-out places the main seating directly beside the refrigerator — Winnebago's own description of the plan's signature arrangement — with an optional U-shaped dinette in place of the sofa.

It rides on the standard Minnie platform: NXG engineered steel frame, 1.5-inch fiberglass over Azdel Onboard composite, one-piece walkable TPO roof, gel-coat fiberglass front cap, and tandem 4,400-pound EZ-lube axles whose published pair equals the 8,800-pound GVWR exactly. The 10-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, 15,000-BTU ducted air conditioner, 30,000-BTU furnace and 200-watt solar package are standard, and the tank set is family-grade: 60 gallons fresh, a 49-gallon black tank, and a factory-fitted second grey tank (49 + 47) bringing grey capacity to 96 gallons.

Against the lighter 2326BH bunkhouse the 2301BHS trades 842 pounds of payload margin for three more feet of trailer, the outdoor kitchen and the bigger grey capacity — a fair exchange for families who camp longer in one place. At 6,514 pounds dry with a 650-pound tongue weight it remains a comfortable match for any properly equipped half-ton, and at $49,074 it undercuts the flagship 2801BHS by more than $3,300.

Winnebago's Minnie line — a ten-floorplan range of 8-foot wide-body travel trailers that step up from the 7-foot Micro Minnie in width, length and capacity, every one of them rated to an 8,800-pound GVWR. The 2301BHS on this page is highlighted; every 2026 plan links to its own profiled page.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 60-gallon fresh tank is roughly 22% of the 2,286-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Minnie 2301BHS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 650 pounds works out to 10% of the 6,514-pound dry weight — below the 10–15% band that keeps a travel trailer tracking straight. That is normal for a dry figure measured with empty tanks, and it is a reason to check the loaded balance rather than assume it: where you put weight relative to the axles moves this number in both directions.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 8,800-pound GVWR the Minnie 2301BHS is towing 2,286 pounds more than its 6,514-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 60 gallons of fresh against 96 grey and 49 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 10 Minnie floorplans profiled here, the Minnie 2301BHS is the lightest by GVWR at 8,800 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: Minnie 2326BH matches it exactly at 8,800 lb GVWR.

9 other Minnie plans share this floorplan’s 8,800 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.

Against the Minnie 2301BHS: the Access 24RB sleeps 2 fewer; the Classic 28RB sleeps 1 fewer; the Flying Cloud 30FB Bunk is 1 ft longer and sleeps 2 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 Minnie floorplans profiled here run 5,672 to 7,082 pounds dry and 26 to 32 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 Minnie line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 17 of them for the Minnie 2301BHS. 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: slide count. 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 (97%) 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.