01 What makes it unique
The 1700BH is the plan that anchors the whole Prowler pitch: a genuine factory bunkhouse — sleeping up to five per the factory page — at a Base MSRP of $16,718, the lowest figure in the relaunched Heartland catalog. It rides a single 3,700-pound axle with an 8,000-BTU wall-mounted air conditioner (the single-axle equipment set), a 19,000-BTU furnace, a 10-foot awning and 30/20/20-gallon tanks, and wears the Lynx Edition badge the light end of the roster carries.
The build is the shared Prowler package: an integrated A-frame chassis under the TrussXL roof truss system rated to 4,500 pounds, a PVC roof membrane with a limited lifetime warranty, MORryde StepAbove entry steps, the 8-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, a tankless water heater and solar prep. The factory page prints a 3,950-pound GVWR, and the published 3,010-pound dry weight plus 940-pound cargo capacity equals it exactly.
The arithmetic to respect is the 940-pound cargo margin — five sleepers, a filled 30-gallon fresh tank (about 250 pounds) and gear will spend it fast, so weigh the loaded unit. Families who outgrow it should read the tandem-axle 2100QB or 2600BH; couples who want a slide at single-axle weight should read the 1802MBS.
02 Full specifications
Dimensions
- Exterior length
- 21' 3"
- Exterior width
- 8' 0"
- Exterior height
- 9' 6"
- Interior height
- 6' 6"
Weights
- Dry / unit base weight
- 3,010 lbs
- GVWR (max loaded)
- 3,950 lbs
- Net cargo / payload (CCC)
- 940 lbs
- Dry tongue weight
- 310 lbs
Capacities
- Fresh water
- 30 gal
- Grey water
- 20 gal
- Black water
- 20 gal
- Refrigerator
- 8 cu ft (12V)
Construction
- A-frame
- Integrated into the chassis
- Roof
- TrussXL 4,500-lb truss · PVC membrane (limited lifetime)
- Steps
- MORryde StepAbove
- Solar
- PowerUp prep (200W option on tandem plans)
Running gear
- Axles (factory)
- 1 x 3700
- Hitch
- Bumper Pull · dry tongue 310 lb
- Tires
- Not published
- LP
- One 20-lb bottle
Galley & systems
- Refrigerator
- 8 cu ft 12V
- A/C
- 8,000 BTU wall unit
- Water heater
- Tankless
- Furnace
- 19,000 BTU
Sleeping & layout
- Sleeps
- Up to 5 (factory)
- Primary bed
- Bunks + front bed
- Layout
- Single-axle Lynx-badged bunkhouse compact — factory bunks, full galley and wet bath in a 17-foot-6 box, wall-mount air conditioner, one entry
- Awnings & entries
- 1 · 10′ · 1 entry (RVUSA)
Verified specs, drawn to scale
Original graphics built from this floorplan’s own verified figures.
Loaded weight budget
Size, drawn to scale
Holding tanks
Drawn by this site from the verified figures above, never traced from a manufacturer drawing; a graphic is left out where its figure is not published. Full record: dataset.
What it takes to tow this
Built from this floorplan’s verified weights. We publish the trailer side only.
Truck tow ratings are not listed: one model varies by thousands of pounds across engine, axle ratio, cab and package. The loaded range is the 10–15% tongue-weight convention for travel trailers, applied to this plan’s 3,950 lb GVWR, not a measurement of this unit. Hitch class is not used as a rating (SAE J684 covers trailers to 10,000 lb GVWR); read the rating stamped on your hitch.
03 Prowler floorplan family
Heartland's Prowler line — the value family of the fall-2025 Heartland relaunch under Jayco: twenty-one 2026 floorplans from a 16-foot micro bunk to a 37-foot-10 triple-slide rear-living flagship, every one on an integrated A-frame chassis with a TrussXL 4,500-pound roof truss under a limited-lifetime PVC membrane, a tankless water heater, an 8-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator and MORryde StepAbove steps standard, with the light single-axle plans wearing the Lynx Edition badge. Eight plans are profiled in depth; the full roster including catalogued plans lives on the Prowler hub with verified weights.
| Floorplan | Nominal | Sleeps | Notable |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1300BH | 17 ft | 3 | Micro Lynx bunk compact — catalogued on the hub (weight pattern flagged) |
| 1700BH | 21 ft | 5 | Lynx single-axle bunkhouse — the $16,718 price headline |
| 1700DB | 21 ft | 5 | Lynx single-axle double-bed compact — catalogued on the hub |
| 1700RB | 21 ft | 3 | Lynx single-axle rear-bath couples compact — catalogued on the hub |
| 1702DBS | 23 ft | 6 | Lynx single-axle double-bed slide — catalogued on the hub |
| 1800BH | 22 ft | 5 | Single-axle bunkhouse — catalogued on the hub |
| 1800QB | 22 ft | 5 | Single-axle queen-bed plan — catalogued on the hub (CCC misprint flagged) |
| 1802MBS | 24 ft | 6 | Murphy-bed slide compact — the only single-axle slide |
| 2000MB | 24 ft | 4 | Wide-body Murphy compact — catalogued on the hub |
| 2100QB | 26 ft | 8 | No-slide eight-sleeper — tandem value without slide upkeep |
| 2103MKS | 25 ft | 4 | Mid-kitchen slide couples plan — the compact-tandem sweet spot |
| 2201MDS | 27 ft | 4 | Tandem Murphy-bed slide plan — premium compact couples pick |
| 2500BH | 28 ft | 8 | Tandem bunkhouse — catalogued on the hub |
| 2600BH | 29 ft | 8 | Big slide-free bunkhouse — eight berths, no slide upkeep |
| 2601RLS | 31 ft | 6 | Rear-living slide, dual entry — published weights flagged |
| 2602BHS | 31 ft | 10 | Volume bunkhouse with outdoor kitchen — the most-listed Prowler |
| 2702BHS | 33 ft | 10 | Bunkhouse slide with outdoor kitchen — catalogued on the hub |
| 2801RLD | 33 ft | 6 | Rear-living dual-entry — catalogued (weights flagged, no MSRP) |
| 2802BHS | 33 ft | 10 | Bunkhouse slide — catalogued on the hub |
| 3202DSB | 36 ft | 10 | Dual-entry bunkhouse with outdoor kitchen — catalogued on the hub |
| 3301RLT | 38 ft | 6 | Triple-slide rear-living flagship — catalogued on the hub |
The Prowler roster splits into two build classes: single-axle compacts (the 1300–1800-series plus the 1802MBS — an 8,000-BTU wall air conditioner, one 20-lb LP bottle) and tandem-axle full-size plans (13,500-BTU roof air, two bottles, with 15,000-BTU and second-A/C-plus-50-amp options). The light plans wear Heartland's Lynx Edition badge — a trim identity, not a separate line. This is a published-GVWR-clean line on the factory pages for every profiled plan except the 2601RLS, whose published set does not sum and is flagged on its page. RVUSA's MSRPs run roughly $375–$525 below the current factory Base MSRP (stale records, logged; the 3301RLT gap is $9,525) and West-edition twins are excluded. Always confirm against the unit's weight sticker before towing.
04 Notes on this floorplan
The catalog price floor
A $16,718 factory Base MSRP is the lowest published figure in the relaunched Heartland lineup — and dealer street pricing typically runs below MSRP. Confirm with a dealer.
Single-axle equipment set
The light Prowlers swap the roof air conditioner for an 8,000-BTU wall-mount unit and carry one 20-lb LP bottle — sized to the trailer, but worth knowing in hot climates.
940 pounds of margin
Five berths against a 940-pound cargo capacity means water and gear need discipline; the fresh tank alone claims about a quarter of it.
Lynx badging, same trailer
RVUSA catalogs the light plans under a separate Prowler Lynx index; the factory builds them as one roster with Lynx Edition trim. One trailer, two listing names.
05 How it compares
The tandem move — eight berths, the 13,500-BTU roof air and a 1,570-pound margin for about $9,400 more at Base MSRP.
The value single-axle bunk field — the 1700BH counter is the tankless water heater, the TrussXL lifetime-warranty roof and the published price.
The sister-company value compacts — compare tongue weight, cargo margin and what ships standard.
06 Loading it for a trip
This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 30-gallon fresh tank is roughly 27% of the 940-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Prowler 1700BH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.
| Weight budget | Figure | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Cargo capacity as published (CCC) | 940 lb | Everything you add: gear, water, propane, batteries, food, people’s belongings. |
| Fresh tank filled (30 gal × 8.34 lb) | −250 lb | Water is the heaviest thing most owners add, and it is added first. |
| Cargo budget left with a full fresh tank | 690 lb | 27% of this plan’s capacity is spent before a single bag is loaded. |
| Per sleeping position, water aboard | 138 lb | A rough share of what is left across the 5 berths this plan sleeps. |
The published dry tongue weight of 310 pounds is 10% of the 3,010-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.
Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 3,950-pound GVWR the Prowler 1700BH is towing 940 pounds more than its 3,010-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.
Tank balance is generous here: 30 gallons of fresh against 20 grey and 20 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.
07 Where this floorplan sits
Of the 8 Prowler floorplans profiled here, the Prowler 1700BH is the lightest by GVWR at 3,950 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: Prowler 1802MBS is 1,045 pounds heavier at 4,995 lb GVWR.
| Comparable travel trailers | GVWR (lb) | Dry (lb) | Sleeps | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prowler 1700BH | 3,950 | 3,010 | 5 | 21 ft 3 in |
| Colt 17BH | 3,950 | 3,010 | — | 21 ft 3 in |
| Ozark 1620DBLE | 3,950 | 3,224 | — | 21 ft 6 in |
| EVO 174DBLE | 3,935 | 3,229 | — | 21 ft 8 in |
| Viking 12BH | 3,968 | 2,499 | — | 16 ft 0 in |
| Airelume 160 | 3,925 | 3,069 | — | 21 ft 8 in |
| Cascade 17LPC | 3,910 | 3,129 | — | 22 ft 1 in |
Against the Prowler 1700BH: the EVO 174DBLE is 15 lb lighter. 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 Prowler floorplans profiled here run 3,010 to 6,715 pounds dry and 21 to 31 feet of exterior length across 8 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 Prowler line hub.
08 Common questions about the Prowler 1700BH
How much does the Prowler 1700BH weigh?
Its published dry weight is 3,010 lb and its GVWR is 3,950 lb, so 940 lb separates the empty trailer from its rated maximum. By GVWR it is the lightest of the 8 Prowler floorplans profiled here that publish a GVWR (3,950 lb to 7,900 lb). Size the tow vehicle to the 3,950 lb figure, not the dry one.
How much can the Prowler 1700BH carry?
Cargo carrying capacity is 940 lb, 24% of the GVWR. Across the 958 travel trailers on this site that publish both figures, the median share is 23%, so this plan sits 1 point above the median. A full 30-gallon fresh tank is about 250 lb of it (27%), because federal rule counts on-board water as cargo (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2). The yellow cargo-capacity label inside your own trailer’s entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3) states the figure for that unit as delivered, options included, and it is the one that binds.
What is the tongue weight of the Prowler 1700BH?
The published dry tongue weight is 310 lb, 10% of the dry weight. Across the 1,148 travel trailers on this site that publish both figures, the median dry tongue share is 12%, so this plan sits 2 points below the median. Loaded, it changes with where the cargo sits, and it is carried by the tow vehicle’s payload, not its tow rating.
What size tow vehicle does the Prowler 1700BH need?
A tow rating of at least 3,950 lb, this floorplan’s GVWR, plus enough payload for the tongue load, passengers and cargo. The dry tongue weight alone takes 310 lb of that payload before anything is loaded. Payload is printed on the tire and loading placard on the tow vehicle’s driver-side door pillar (49 CFR 571.110 S4.3); this site lists no truck ratings because they vary by build.
How many people does the Prowler 1700BH sleep?
It is rated to sleep 5. 5 of the 8 Prowler floorplans profiled here that publish a count are rated for more. Rated positions include convertible furniture.
What are the tank capacities on the Prowler 1700BH?
Fresh 30 gallons, grey 20 gallons, black 20 gallons. Combined waste capacity is 40 gallons.
How long is the Prowler 1700BH?
Exterior length is 21' 3". That makes it the shortest of the 8 Prowler floorplans profiled here that publish an exterior length (21 ft 3 in to 31 ft 1 in). Check it against campsite and storage length; the exterior figure includes the tongue or pin box.
Every figure in these answers is read from this page’s verified specification table. Where the manufacturer publishes nothing, the question is not answered rather than estimated.
09 What this page publishes, and what it does not
Named sources publish 15 of the 18 specification fields this catalogue tracks for the Prowler 1700BH (95% complete on the full field set).
Not published for this floorplan: slide count, tire specification, awning. Those rows are left blank rather than copied from a sibling floorplan.
Sourcing rules: methodology.
11 NHTSA safety record
This floorplan belongs to the Prowler line, and NHTSA holds 15 recall campaigns and 2 owner complaints against that line. They are separate records and are not added together — a recall is a manufacturer-confirmed defect with a remedy; a complaint is one owner’s account, which NHTSA does not verify.
Too few reports to show a pattern. 2 complaints have been filed on this line — not enough to say what fails most often. They cover equipment and structure.
Recall coverage is not complete — our harvest of NHTSA’s recall API ran 1,556 queries, of which 0 failed and 242 returned an explicit zero. A line can still be under-reported where NHTSA files a roster under a parent name, or where a match rests on the wording of the recall rather than its model field. Complaints come from the complete bulk file but are unverified and self-selected: a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy. Full tables are on the Prowler line page.