01 What Highland Ridge publishes for the Open Range Ultra Lite
Highland Ridge RV, a subsidiary of Jayco, Inc., of Shipshewana, Indiana, lists 7 Open Range Ultra Lite travel trailers in its Open Range Ultra Lite brochure (filed under 2020 on its own site; the brochure prints no year). 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 Open Range Ultra Lite models
Highland Ridge Open Range Ultra Lite · 7 models
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Range Ultra Lite UT2410RL | 5,465 lb | 1,935 lb | 7,400 lb | 500 lb | — | — | Profiled |
| Open Range Ultra Lite UT2102RB | 5,560 lb | 1,440 lb | 7,000 lb | 505 lb | — | — | Profiled |
| Open Range Ultra Lite UT2402BH | 5,895 lb | 1,355 lb | 7,250 lb | 805 lb | — | — | Profiled |
| Open Range Ultra Lite UT2602RL | 6,035 lb | 1,365 lb | 7,400 lb | 760 lb | — | — | Profiled |
| Open Range Ultra Lite UT2804RK | 6,160 lb | 1,440 lb | 7,600 lb | 700 lb | — | — | Profiled |
| Open Range Ultra Lite UT2802BH | 6,205 lb | 1,245 lb | 7,450 lb | 520 lb | — | — | Profiled |
| Open Range Ultra Lite UT2910RL | 6,815 lb | 1,985 lb | 8,800 lb | 855 lb | — | — | Profiled |
Read from Highland Ridge’s Open Range Ultra Lite brochure (filed under 2020 on its own site; the brochure prints no year), 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.
05 Recalls
NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns affecting this line. The earliest was reported 12 Sep 2018 and the most recent 2 Sep 2021.
| Reported | Campaign | Component | What can go wrong |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Sep 2021 | 21V686000 | Equipment | Increased propane pressure can enlarge the flames in gas appliances, increasing the risk of a fire. |
| 6 Mar 2019 | 19V168000 | Equipment | The incorrect GVWR on the label may allow the vehicle to be overloaded causing loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash. |
| 12 Sep 2018 | 18V616000 | Suspension | The missing bearing race may cause premature hub bearing failure, possibly resulting in a separation of the hub from the axle, thereby increasing the risk of a… |
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 Open Range Ultra Lite name. A 2017 campaign filed under a plain Highland Ridge “Ultra Lite” (17V288000) is not counted here.
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.
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 (Open Range Ultra Lite): 19 floorplan-year records covering 7 floorplans and the model years 2017 to 2020. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | 5,322 lb–6,483 lb | 5,765 lb |
| 2018 | 4 | 5,322 lb–6,483 lb | 5,832 lb |
| 2019 | 5 | 5,322 lb–6,483 lb | 5,765 lb |
| 2020 | 7 | 5,465 lb–6,815 lb | 6,035 lb |
Year over year, on the same floorplan codes:
- 2017 → 2018: of the 3 floorplans recorded in both years, the printed unloaded weight went up on 0, down on 0 and stayed the same on 3 (median change zero).
- 2018 → 2019: of the 4 floorplans recorded in both years, the printed unloaded weight went up on 0, down on 0 and stayed the same on 4 (median change zero).
- 2019 → 2020: of the 5 floorplans recorded in both years, the printed unloaded weight went up on 5, down on 0 and stayed the same on 0 (median change +260 lb).