2026 Forest RiverRockwood Premier Hardside A216HS

Forest River lists the 2026 Rockwood Premier Hardside A216HS at 2,523 lb dry, a net carrying capacity of 767 lb and a tongue weight of 290 lb. It prints no GVWR for it.

It is 18' 5" long. Forest River prints its tanks as 18 gal fresh.

Every number on this page was read on 7 Nov 2026 from Forest River’s Rockwood camping-trailer brochures (filed in Forest River’s year folders; the brochures print no year); model year 2026 comes from where the maker files it on its own site, not from the document’s text.

How the A216HS differs from the other 53 Rockwood Camping Trailers floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2026). How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity, 767 lb: eighteenth-smallest of 54, between the 1970ESP (752 lb) and the 1910ESP (769 lb).
• Fresh tank, 18 gal: shared with the 1640FT, 1920FT and ten others; of 52, three smaller and 36 larger, nearest the 1640LTD, 1940LTD and 2280LTD (10 gal) and the 1640ESP, 1910ESP and 22 others (20 gal).
• Dry weight, 2,523 lb: shared with the 2318FT; of 54, 31 lighter and 21 heavier, nearest the 2380FT (2,518 lb) and the A212HW (2,526 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.5%: shared with the 1950 and 2380FT; of 54, 21 smaller and 30 larger, nearest the 1940F and HW277 (11.4%) and the A213HWESP (11.6%).
• Length, 18 ft 5 in: 27th-shortest of 54, between the A122S (18 ft 4 in) and the 2270FT, 2280BHESP and two others (18 ft 7 in).
• Tongue weight, 290 lb: shared with the 2380FT and A122SESP; of 54, 24 lighter and 27 heavier, nearest the 2280 (289 lb) and the 2317G (292 lb).

Next to the 2380FT, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the A216HS is 5 lb heavier by dry weight, has 5 lb less cargo capacity and is 1 ft 7 in longer; the two publish the same tongue weight and fresh tank.

Next to the 2318FT (2025 page), the floorplan with the same dry weight, the A216HS has 30 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 30 lb heavier, is 1 ft 7 in longer and has a fresh tank 2 gal smaller; the two publish the same dry weight.

Next to the A212HW (2020 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the A216HS is 3 lb lighter by dry weight, has 18 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 21 lb lighter, is 2 ft 5 in shorter and has a fresh tank 8 gal smaller.

Forest River’s Rockwood camping-trailer brochures (filed in Forest River’s year folders; the brochures print no year) lists 54 Rockwood Camping Trailers floorplans; every one with a printed weight has a page here.

A full 18-gallon fresh tank is about 149 lb of water, 19% of the Rockwood Premier Hardside A216HS’s 767 lb cargo capacity, leaving 618 lb. Across 52 Rockwood Camping Trailers floorplans the water share runs 7% to 50%, and 21 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Rockwood Camping Trailers Rockwood Freedom 2380FT at 19% and Rockwood Camping Trailers Rockwood ESP 232ESP at 20%.