2027 Forest River Rockwood Mini Lite / Flagstaff Micro Lite2109S

The Rockwood Mini Lite 2109S leaves Forest River's factory at 4,472 lbs dry with 1,365 lbs of cargo capacity. Forest River publishes no GVWR for this line, so the loaded rating is not quoted on this page and is not computed from the other two figures. What the cargo number covers is defined by the factory: fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory come out of it. Fresh water is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling the 53-gallon fresh tank spends 440 lbs of the 1,365 lbs before anything else goes in.

Tongue weight is 557 lbs, 12% of the dry weight as published; it rises as the trailer is loaded and counts against the tow vehicle’s tongue-weight and payload limits (tongue weight by size).

Off hookups: 58 gallons of grey and black capacity against 53 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Rockwood Mini Lite roster this is the 1st of 16 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 4,472 lbs to 6,049 lbs. It is the lightest plan in the line, which makes it the one to look at first if the tow vehicle is the constraint.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 4,472 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 5,154 lbs. Forest River publishes no loaded rating for this line, so the ceiling is the one on the trailer’s own weight label (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. No GVWR is published for this line, so dry plus cargo has no rating to check against. A missing row means Forest River does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

Forest River 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. 2109S is a Rockwood Mini Lite designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 2109S differs from the other fifteen Rockwood Mini Lite floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2027). How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 4,472 lb: lightest of sixteen; next is the 2108RB (4,768 lb).
• Tongue weight, 557 lb: lightest of sixteen; next is the 2524FBT (565 lb).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 3 in: lowest of sixteen; next is the 2108RB (10 ft 5 in).
• Cargo capacity, 1,365 lb: second-smallest of sixteen, between the 2511S (1,236 lb) and the 2506S (1,446 lb).
• Length, 22 ft 4 in: shared with the 2104S; of sixteen, one shorter and thirteen longer, nearest the 2108RB (22 ft 2 in) and the 2213S (23 ft 10 in).
• Grey tank, 29 gal: smallest of sixteen, level with the 2108RB, 2213S and three others; next are the 2104S, 2204S and two others (30 gal).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.5%: shared with the 2506FK; of sixteen, eight smaller and six larger, nearest the 2213S (12.1%) and the 2516S (12.8%).

Next to the 2108RB, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 2109S is 296 lb lighter by dry weight, has 256 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 83 lb lighter, is 2 in longer and stands 2 in lower; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Mini Lite is the class Rockwood buyers reach for when the tow vehicle is the constraint. Across the nine plans profiled here dry weight runs 4,472 to 6,008 lb and tongue weight runs 557 to 720 lb. Cargo capacity runs 1,365 to 2,032 lb, and it does not track dry weight in the way buyers expect -- the spread between the most and least accommodating plan is roughly 670 lb of gear at broadly similar trailer weights. Fresh water is 53 gallons on every plan; grey runs 29 to 58 gallons and black is 29 throughout, so the real off-grid variable in this class is waste capacity rather than fresh.

A full 53-gallon fresh tank is about 440 lb of water, 32% of the 2109S’s 1,365 lb cargo capacity, leaving 925 lb. Across 16 Rockwood Mini Lite floorplans the water share runs 22% to 36%, and 1 gives up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Rockwood Mini Lite 2506S at 31% and Rockwood Mini Lite 2511S at 36%.