2026 Highland Ridge Roamer Light Duty304BHS

The Roamer Light Duty 304BHS leaves Highland Ridge's factory at 8,790 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 10,600 lbs and 1,810 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 17% 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 55-gallon fresh tank spends 457 lbs of that 1,810 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry pin weight is 1,644 lbs, which is 19% of the dry weight. That figure lands on the truck's rear axle and comes straight off its payload rating - not its towing rating, which is the number most often quoted and the wrong one for this decision. Pin weight rises as the trailer is loaded, and a fifth wheel loaded toward its cargo capacity will put substantially more than 1,644 lbs over the bed. Read the payload figure on your own door sticker rather than a brochure maximum for the model.

Tank capacities are 55 gallons fresh, 60 grey and 30 black, 90 gallons of waste capacity against 55 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 Roamer Light Duty roster this is the 6th of 7 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 7,075 lbs to 9,820 lbs. It sits in the heavier 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 8,790 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 9,695 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 10,600 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. 304BHS is a Roamer Light Duty designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Roamer Light Duty is Highland Ridge's half-ton fifth-wheel roster, and for 2026 it is not a single body type: Highland Ridge files four of its seven floorplans as fifth wheels and three as travel trailers. Five reach a full profile here, 7,075 lb to 8,790 lb dry across 29 to 34 feet. The hitch figures separate the two halves cleanly, 1,430 to 1,644 lb of pin weight against 850 lb of tongue weight, and each plan's page states which it is rather than inheriting the line name. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly on all five.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 55-gallon fresh tank is roughly 25% of the 1,810-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 304BHS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 1,644 pounds is 19% of this floorplan’s 8,790-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 10,600-pound GVWR the 304BHS is towing 1,810 pounds more than its 8,790-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 55 gallons of fresh against 60 grey and 30 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 5 Roamer Light Duty floorplans profiled here, the 304BHS carries the highest GVWR at 10,600 pounds. It is the top of the line by weight, which makes tow-vehicle capability the first thing to settle rather than the last.

Either side of it in the same line: Roamer Light Duty 28DBSS is 605 pounds lighter at 9,995 lb GVWR.

Against the 304BHS: the Eagle 29.5FBDS is 100 lb lighter; the Avenue 28BH is 105 lb lighter; the Reflection 28RL is 395 lb heavier and 3 ft shorter. 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 fifth wheels 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 Roamer Light Duty floorplans profiled here run 7,075 to 8,790 pounds dry and 29 to 34 feet of exterior length across 5 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 Roamer Light Duty line hub.

Named sources publish 11 of the 18 specification fields this catalogue tracks for the 304BHS (100% complete on the full field set).

Not published for this floorplan: interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning. Those rows are left blank rather than copied from a sibling floorplan.

Sourcing rules: methodology.