2026 Salem FSX 178ICE

The Salem FSX 178ICE is a compact family bunkhouse from the metal-sided ICE series. A front queen bed with an overhead cabinet anchors one end; rear double-over-double bunks sleep the kids or guests; and a booth dinette rides on a single slide that opens up the living area. A full bath with a shower surround sits beside the bunks for easy nighttime use, and nominal capacity reaches seven. Its twin is the Wildwood FSX 178ICE, the same trailer in different décor.

FSX is Forest River's value, stick-and-tin line — a powder-coated I-beam steel frame with camber, two-inch walls sixteen inches on center, a SuperFlex walk-on roof and a .040 smooth-aluminum front cap with a diamond-plate rock guard — and the ICE plans wear a distinctive metal exterior. Standard equipment runs to a 13,500-BTU roof air conditioner, a large double-door 12V refrigerator, a two-burner cooktop, a 6-gallon gas water heater and a 15-foot power awning. The optional Platinum package swaps in smooth fiberglass walls with a 200-watt solar panel and a power tongue jack.

At 4,099 pounds dry against a 5,580-pound GVWR it leaves roughly 1,481 pounds of cargo capacity — comfortable for a young family's water, food and gear — and the single-axle, sub-24-foot body tows behind a strong SUV or any half-ton. The single axle keeps weight and tire cost down but leaves no spare axle if a tire fails. For families who want a real bunkhouse with a slide-out living area and a front queen in a small, light, affordable package — with the identical Wildwood to shop against — the 178ICE is the value twins' compact family bunkhouse.

Forest River's Salem FSX and its twin the Wildwood FSX are near-identical lightweight lines — the same stick-and-tin trailers built on the same factory line, differing mainly in graphics and décor and sharing an identical floorplan roster. FSX sits below the laminated Cruise Lite / X-Lite as the value, SUV-towable entry into the family, with a Limited Edition Value tier at the bottom of the price ladder and full-feature ICE and bunkhouse plans above it. The 178ICE on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page. The line runs to dozens of floorplans across travel trailers, value LE trailers and MAX-Series toy haulers; the highest-demand layouts are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the line hub.