2026 HeartlandProwler 1700BH

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Against the Prowler 1700BH: the EVO 174DBLE is 15 lb lighter; the Salem & Wildwood FSX 174DBLE is 15 lb lighter and sleeps 1 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 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.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 15 of them for the Prowler 1700BH. 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, tire specification, awning. 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 (95%) 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.