2027 Forest River Rockwood Mini Lite / Flagstaff Micro Lite2513S

The Rockwood Mini Lite 2513S leaves Forest River's factory at 6,008 lbs dry with 1,712 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 1,712 lbs before anything else goes in.

Tongue weight is 720 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 15th of 16 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 4,472 lbs to 6,049 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 6,008 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 6,864 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's own description of this floorplan reads: “The outside kitchen on this Rockwood Mini Lite featuring our new griddle, a refrigerator and grill makes cooking so enjoyable and flexible. No need to take the smell of cooking bacon inside. The large wardrobe slide makes packing and organization so easy. The large pantry next to the bathroom covers all your kitchen storage needs as well. The center position of the television in your entertainment spaces makes…” That is the factory's marketing copy rather than a specification, and nothing in it is treated as a verified field on this page - layout descriptions, sleeping arrangements and feature claims in factory copy are not carried into the spec table unless the factory also publishes them as specifications.

How the 2513S 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, 6,008 lb: second-heaviest of sixteen, between the 2525RB (5,823 lb) and the 2516S (6,049 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,712 lb: sixth-smallest of sixteen, between the 2108RB (1,621 lb) and the 2516S (1,723 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12%: seventh-smallest of sixteen, between the 2525RB (11.8%) and the 2213S (12.1%).
• Tongue weight, 720 lb: shared with the 2204S; of sixteen, eleven lighter and three heavier, nearest the 2506FK (710 lb) and the 2516S (772 lb).
• Grey tank, 29 gal: smallest of sixteen, level with the 2108RB, 2109S and three others; next are the 2104S, 2204S and two others (30 gal).
• Length, 25 ft 10 in: shared with the 2506FK, 2507S and two others; of sixteen, nine shorter and two longer, nearest the 2515S, 2522FB and two others (25 ft 9 in) and the 2506S and 2516S (25 ft 11 in).

Next to the 2525RB, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 2513S is 185 lb heavier by dry weight, has 150 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 35 lb heavier, is 1 in longer and has a grey tank 29 gal smaller; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank and black tank.

Next to the 2516S (2022 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 2513S is 41 lb lighter by dry weight, has 11 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 52 lb lighter, is 1 in shorter, has a fresh tank 1 gal smaller, has a grey tank 31 gal smaller and has a black tank 1 gal smaller; the two publish the same exterior height.

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, 26% of the 2513S’s 1,712 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,272 lb. Across 16 Rockwood Mini Lite floorplans the water share runs 22% to 36%, and 6 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Rockwood Mini Lite 2507S at 24% and Rockwood Mini Lite 2516S at 26%.