2026 East to West Silver Lake1700BHLE

The Silver Lake 1700BHLE leaves East to West's factory at 4,333 lbs dry with 1,317 lbs of cargo capacity. East to West 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 40-gallon fresh tank spends 332 lbs of the 1,317 lbs before anything else goes in.

Tongue weight is 550 lbs, 13% 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: 60 gallons of grey and black capacity against 40 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Silver Lake roster this is the 6th of 13 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 3,149 lbs to 7,518 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 4,333 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 4,991 lbs. East to West 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).

East to West’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 East to West does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

East to West 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. 1700BHLE is a Silver Lake designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 1700BHLE differs from the other twelve Silver Lake floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2026). How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity, 1,317 lb: fourth-smallest of thirteen, between the 2700BH (1,267 lb) and the 1600RBLE (1,327 lb).
• Length, 22 ft 10 in: fifth-shortest of thirteen, between the 1610BHLE (22 ft 5 in) and the 19SBHS (23 ft 3 in).
• Dry weight, 4,333 lb: sixth-lightest of thirteen, between the 19SBHS (3,939 lb) and the 2400BH (4,723 lb).
• Tongue weight, 550 lb: sixth-lightest of thirteen, between the 1610BHLE (540 lb) and the 2300RD (565 lb).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 3 in: lowest of thirteen, level with the 15SRB, 1600RBLE and 1610BHLE; next are the 19SBH and 19SBHS (10 ft 4 in).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.7%: shared with the 19SBHS; of thirteen, seven smaller and four larger, nearest the 2400BH (12.2%) and the 19SBH (13.2%).

Next to the 19SBHS (2027 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 1700BHLE is 394 lb heavier by dry weight, has 356 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 50 lb heavier, is 5 in shorter, stands 1 in lower and has a fresh tank 1 gal smaller; the two publish the same grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 2400BH, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 1700BHLE is 390 lb lighter by dry weight, has 1,535 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 25 lb lighter, is 5 ft 9 in shorter and stands 6 in lower; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Silver Lake is the lightest complete roster on this site from any East to West line, and it is organised around a single split. Three LE plans are single-axle trailers from 3,548 lb dry with 475 to 550 lb on the tongue; the other seven are tandem-axle and run to 7,518 lb dry with 565 to 780 lb on the tongue. Every one of the ten is a bumper pull. The practical read is that the tow rating that matters is the one on your own door sticker, against the loaded weight rather than the dry figure. Cargo capacity runs 1,062 to 3,462 lb.

A full 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water, 25% of the 1700BHLE’s 1,317 lb cargo capacity, leaving 985 lb. Across 13 Silver Lake floorplans the water share runs 10% to 35%, and 3 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Silver Lake 1600RBLE at 25% and Silver Lake 2700BH at 26%.