2026 Prime Time Tracer295DB

The 295DB is the top of the Tracer line. The Forest River factory describes the floorplan as two entries and two slide outs, with a fiberglass exterior and a 19-foot awning, and an interior of bunk beds and a front bedroom — sleeping up to eight in about 38 feet, the heaviest and longest Tracer. Two slides widen the living space, and the second entry door serves the bunk end. It carries the full Tracer Touring build in laminated fiberglass: welded aluminum framing and a pinch-rolled laminated Eternabond structure, 2-inch foam-block-insulated walls, a Tufflex PVC roof under a lifetime warranty, a fully enclosed drop-frame underbelly, an installed 200-watt solar panel with a 40-amp controller, a 12-volt glass refrigerator and an on-demand tankless water heater.

Prime Time publishes a 9,850-pound GVWR against the 7,828-pound dry weight — the highest GVWR and heaviest dry weight in the line — leaving a 2,022-pound cargo capacity and a 1,050-pound dry tongue, the heaviest tongue in the line. A fully ducted 15,000-BTU air conditioner and 42/102/34-gallon fresh/grey/black tanks are standard, the 102-gallon grey being well above the line norm for family use. Prime Time and Forest River publish no MSRP for the line, so confirm street pricing with a dealer. The 295DB is the Tracer for families who want the biggest plan in the line — but its 9,850-pound GVWR and 1,050-pound tongue want an honestly rated half-ton or a small three-quarter-ton, so match the tow vehicle carefully.

Tracer is Prime Time's value / mid touring travel trailer — laminated, welded-aluminum-framed half-ton towables and a cross-shop against Forest River's own Aurora and Salem / Wildwood, Jayco's Jay Flight SLX and Grand Design's Transcend Xplor, with the metal-sided Prime Time Avenger as its value sibling. Six floorplans are profiled in full and linked below; the remaining plans are catalogued and shown muted. The 295DB on this page is highlighted.

A full 42-gallon fresh tank is about 350 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 17% of the 295DB’s 2,022 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,672 lb (209 lb per rated berth). Across 6 Tracer floorplans the water share runs 14% to 24%, and 3 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Tracer 286RL at 16% and Tracer 235RK at 20%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).

Closest sibling: the Tracer 275BH, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 5 of the 9 fields both publish (this plan first): length 37 ft 11 in vs 32 ft 1 in; dry weight 7,828 lb vs 6,338 lb; GVWR 9,850 lb vs 7,785 lb; cargo capacity 2,022 lb vs 1,447 lb; dry hitch weight 1,050 lb vs 785 lb. They match on sleeps, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Tracer 286RL is 230 lb lighter (9,620 lb GVWR).

All 6 Tracer floorplans: Tracer line hub.

Against the 295DB: the Westbrook 27REXC is 10 lb heavier and 4 ft shorter; the Coachmen Catalina 293TQBSCK is 18 lb heavier and 2 ft shorter and sleeps 2 more; the Aurora 29TQS is 26 lb lighter and 2 ft shorter.

17 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 295DB. Not published: interior height, tire size (a description is published, a size is not).

Sourcing rules: methodology.