2026 Highland Ridge Open Range Travel Trailer22MLS

The Open Range Travel Trailer 22MLS leaves Highland Ridge's factory at 5,265 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 6,700 lbs and 1,435 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 21% of the loaded rating, and Highland Ridge'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 42-gallon fresh tank spends 349 lbs of that 1,435 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry tongue weight is 500 lbs, or 9% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits below 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 42 gallons fresh, 40 grey and 40 black, 80 gallons of waste capacity against 42 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. Highland Ridge publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Open Range Travel Trailer roster this is the 2nd of 6 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 4,315 lbs to 10,260 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 5,265 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 5,983 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 6,700 lbs is a limit rather than a target.

Every number above was captured twice from Highland Ridge 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 0 shared figures agree could not be compared 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 Highland Ridge does not publish it in this channel, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

Highland Ridge 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. 22MLS is a Open Range Travel Trailer designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Open Range is the badge Highland Ridge now trades under, and its travel-trailer roster is the widest spread in the catalogue: six floorplans for 2026 running 4,315 lb dry on a 24-foot 6-inch up to 10,260 lb on a 39-foot 6-inch, with dry tongue weights of 500 to 1,420 lb. That is a mid-size-SUV trailer and a three-quarter-ton trailer on the same roster, so the line name settles nothing about what will tow it. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly on all six.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 42-gallon fresh tank is roughly 24% of the 1,435-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 22MLS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 500 pounds works out to 9% of the 5,265-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 6,700-pound GVWR the 22MLS is towing 1,435 pounds more than its 5,265-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 42 gallons of fresh against 40 grey and 40 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 22MLS sits 2 of 6 in the Open Range Travel Trailer line: 6,700 pounds against a line that runs from 6,000 to 12,200 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Open Range Travel Trailer 20MB is 700 pounds lighter at 6,000 lb GVWR; and Open Range Travel Trailer 26RLS is 900 pounds heavier at 7,600 lb GVWR.

Against the 22MLS: the Forest River No Boundaries NB20.3 is 7 lb lighter and 1 ft shorter; the Puma Camping Edition 23BHCE is 47 lb lighter and 2 ft longer; the Jay Flight 247RBS is 50 lb heavier and 1 ft longer. 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 Open Range Travel Trailer floorplans profiled here run 4,315 to 10,260 pounds dry and 24 to 40 feet of exterior length across 6 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 Open Range Travel Trailer line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 11 of them for the 22MLS. 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: interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning. 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 (100%) 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.