2026 Salem Cruise Lite 24RLXL

The Salem Cruise Lite 24RLXL is the trailer buyers most often name when they cross-shop Salem against Wildwood — the rear-living couples' layout that defines the value twins. The back of the trailer is a panoramic-window living room with a residential sofa and theater seating, the front holds a custom king bed and a fireplace below the entertainment center, and a U-shaped dinette in the single slide converts for guests. Its twin is the Wildwood X-Lite 24RLXL, the same trailer down to the chassis.

It is the first plan in this group to publish a refrigerator size — an 11-cubic-foot 12-volt unit — alongside the full Cruise Lite value-laminate build: a powder-coated I-beam steel frame, two-inch laminated sidewalls, a walk-on Tufflex™ PVC roof and an enclosed Accessibelly underbelly. A 60,000-BTU tankless water heater and 13,500-BTU air conditioner are standard, and the Platinum package adds a fiberglass exterior and 200-watt solar.

At 5,063 pounds dry against a 7,550-pound GVWR it leaves roughly 2,500 pounds of payload — ample for two — and tows comfortably behind a half-ton truck. For couples who want a king bed, a fireplace and a rear lounge with a view at a value-tier price — and who want to shop two identical nameplates against each other — the 24RLXL is the heart of the Salem/Wildwood lineup.

Forest River's Salem and Wildwood are near-identical twin lines — the same trailers built on the same factory line, differing mainly in exterior graphics and interior décor. The volume laminate models are the Salem Cruise Lite and its twin the Wildwood X-Lite, which share an identical floorplan roster. The 24RLXL on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page. Across both nameplates the family runs to dozens of floorplans; the highest-demand layouts are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the line hub.