2026 HeartlandProwler 2601RLS

The 2601RLS gives the value tier the rear-living formula: a lounge across the back wall, a single street-side slide, a front bedroom and — unusually at this price — two entry doors, under an 18-foot awning. On the 10 July 2026 RVUSA probe it was the second-most-listed Prowler floorplan in the country, behind only its bunkhouse sibling the 2602BHS.

The build is the standard tandem package — 13,500-BTU roof air, 30,000-BTU furnace, two LP bottles, 52/39/39 tanks, tankless water heater, 8-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, TrussXL roof under the lifetime PVC membrane, tandem 3,500-pound axles — but the weight sheet demands attention. The factory page prints a 6,715-pound dry weight, a 1,725-pound cargo capacity and a 7,900-pound GVWR; the first two sum to 8,440, not 7,900, and every source — factory, RVUSA, brochure — republishes the same three figures. Nothing here resolves that: the figures are shown as published, the inconsistency is flagged, and the printed GVWR and axle ratings are what govern loading.

Read the dry weight with caution — at 6,715 pounds it would also be 900 pounds heavier than the larger 2602BHS, which the rest of the roster’s arithmetic makes doubtful — and weigh the actual unit before towing. The layout itself is the draw: the only rear-living plan in the compact-to-mid roster, with the second door the format usually skips.

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.