2026 Salem Cruise Lite 25ICE

The Salem Cruise Lite 25ICE is a front-bedroom couples' coach from the value twins' ICE series — a comfortable open layout for two with room for a few more. The front is a private bedroom with a custom king bed and Versa-Tilt and dual wardrobes; a large living-area slide carries the Versa-Lounge and a booth dinette that convert for extra sleepers, pushing nominal capacity to four or five; and a hidden pantry with shelves sits behind a mirror-front electric fireplace. The rear is a full bathroom with a tub/shower and counter space, and a galley with a cooktop and microwave handles cooking. Its twin is the Wildwood X-Lite 25ICE.

It carries 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 — with a 60,000-BTU tankless water heater, a 13,500-BTU air conditioner and a 16-foot power awning standard. The retro/metal exterior redesign, JBL stereo, stylish roller shades and updated backsplash come with the current model year. Note that the ICE series does not offer the Platinum solar package, so a 200-watt solar panel is the standalone option for off-hookup nights.

At 6,178 pounds dry against a 7,700-pound GVWR it leaves roughly 1,522 pounds of cargo capacity — comfortable for two — and it tows easily behind a half-ton truck. The factory record does not break out the refrigerator's cubic footage on this plan, so it is flagged. For couples who want a real private bedroom, a fireplace lounge and a full rear bath in a light, value-tier trailer — with the identical Wildwood to shop against — the 25ICE is the value twins' compact front-bedroom couples' coach.

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 25ICE 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.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 40-gallon fresh tank is roughly 22% of the 1,522-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 25ICE with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 700 pounds is 11% of the 6,178-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 7,700-pound GVWR the 25ICE is towing 1,522 pounds more than its 6,178-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 40 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.

Ranked by GVWR, the 25ICE sits 9 of 12 in the Salem & Wildwood line: 7,700 pounds against a line that runs from 7,520 to 7,830 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Salem & Wildwood 263BHXL is 18 pounds lighter at 7,682 lb GVWR; and Salem & Wildwood 26ICE is 85 pounds heavier at 7,785 lb GVWR.

Against the 25ICE: the Campsite Reserve 23SF is 2 ft shorter; the Cherokee Grey Wolf Black Label 26SSBL is 1 ft longer. 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 travel trailers 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 Salem & Wildwood floorplans profiled here run 3,836 to 6,688 pounds dry and 23 to 34 feet of exterior length across 12 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 Salem & Wildwood line hub.

Named sources publish 16 of the 18 specification fields this catalogue tracks for the 25ICE (90% complete on the full field set).

Not published for this floorplan: interior height, tire specification. Those rows are left blank rather than copied from a sibling floorplan.

Values marked with an asterisk are arithmetic on published figures or come from a single source; the flag travels into the downloadable spec sheet.

Sourcing rules: methodology.