2026 Springdale245ML

The Springdale 245ML is a zero-slide double-loft layout with a rear covered porch, a front full kitchen and bath, and dual entry doors — a 29-foot travel trailer aimed at families and groups who want extra sleeping berths and a flexible loft-and-porch layout rather than a slide-out floorplan. A rear entry opens to a covered porch with a queen loft above, the main living area carries a sofa and dual lounge chairs with a pull-out table, and the front holds a full kitchen with a 17-inch oven and a full bath with a seated shower, with a second queen loft above; at 13 feet 4 inches it is the tallest profiled Springdale and the only one without a slide.

It carries Springdale's value build — a powder-coated I-beam steel frame with stamped cross-members and outriggers, laminated sidewalls and a walkable roof membrane, with a 15,000-BTU ducted air conditioner standard, on tandem axles. At 7,280 pounds dry against a 9,800-pound GVWR it leaves 2,520 pounds of cargo capacity, and the dry tongue weight is 1,165 pounds. A 10 cu ft refrigerator and 15K BTU air conditioning round out the equipment.

A figure worth stating plainly: Dry weight (7,280 lb) and GVWR (9,800) are both published on an I-15 RV dealer unit whose every capacity matches the RVUSA structured block and whose loft-and-porch layout is unchanged across model years. RVUSA lists a sleep capacity of six while dealer sources list eight (the two queen lofts plus convertibles); the RVUSA figure is shown. MSRP is not published on RVUSA; the price is dealer-quoted. As with every lightweight trailer, the published tongue weight is a pre-production dry estimate — once water, gear and passengers are aboard, real loaded tongue weight runs higher and lands on the tow vehicle's payload, so weigh the loaded trailer and match it to your truck honestly before relying on the brochure number. For families and groups who want extra sleeping berths and a flexible loft-and-porch layout rather than a slide-out floorplan, the 245ML is a well-targeted pick within the Keystone value stack.

Keystone's Springdale is a broad lightweight line built on a powder-coated I-beam steel frame with a 15,000-BTU ducted air conditioner standard. The plan on this page is highlighted; each profiled plan links to its own page. The full Springdale catalog runs to many floorplans — the highest-demand layouts are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the Springdale hub.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 46-gallon fresh tank is roughly 15% of the 2,520-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 245ML with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 1,165 pounds is 16% of the 7,280-pound dry weight — at or above the top of the usual 10–15% band before you load anything. A nose-heavy dry figure eats truck payload directly, so budget the hitch load against your door-jamb sticker rather than against the tow rating.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 9,800-pound GVWR the 245ML is towing 2,520 pounds more than its 7,280-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 46 gallons of fresh against 39 grey and 39 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 245ML sits 11 of 12 in the Springdale line: 9,800 pounds against a line that runs from 6,500 to 9,820 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: Springdale 281RK is 145 pounds lighter at 9,655 lb GVWR; and Springdale 310BR is 20 pounds heavier at 9,820 lb GVWR.

Against the 245ML: the Eagle 265FKDS is 2 ft longer and sleeps 4 fewer; the Jay Flight 321BDS is 7 ft longer and sleeps 5 more; the Zinger 320FB is 6 ft longer and sleeps 4 more. 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 Springdale floorplans profiled here run 4,647 to 7,815 pounds dry and 25 to 36 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 Springdale line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 15 of them for the 245ML. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: exterior width, interior height, tire specification. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (88%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.