Prime TimeTracer

Tracer is Prime Time's value / mid touring travel trailer — the laminated, welded-aluminum-framed “Touring Edition” half-ton bumper-pull line, a clear construction step above the metal-sided value bracket. Prime Time Manufacturing, based in Wakarusa, Indiana and a division of Forest River, Inc. (a Berkshire Hathaway company), positions Tracer against the mainstream and step-up travel trailers — Forest River's own Aurora and Salem / Wildwood, Jayco's Jay Flight SLX, Keystone's Passport and Grand Design's Transcend Xplor — with a laminated build and equipment aimed a step above the price-leaders.

The build is well-equipped for the class. Every Tracer rides a bumper-pull tandem-axle chassis with welded aluminum framing and a pinch-rolled laminated Eternabond structure, 2-inch walls with high-density foam-block insulation, a Tufflex PVC roof under a lifetime warranty, 3/8-inch OSB roof decking on 5-inch wood trusses with steel plates, and a fully enclosed drop-frame underbelly with a huge pass-through. Most plans are laminated fiberglass; the family bunkhouse 275BH is the metal-sided exception on the same welded-aluminum frame. Inside are a Camp King bed, a 12-volt glass refrigerator, a cooktop with an air fryer and a 30,000-BTU furnace, with power tongue and stabilizer jacks and D-rated radial tires on aluminum wheels standard.

The systems provisions are strong and, unusually for the class, installed rather than prepped. Every Tracer carries an installed 200-watt solar panel with a 40-amp controller and a solar disconnect — a working panel out of the box, not a roof-and-wiring prep — an on-demand tankless water heater and a fully ducted 15,000-BTU air conditioner. RVUSA files ten 2026 Tracer plans; six are profiled in depth below — from the compact rear-bathroom 195RB to the family flagship 295DB. Every profiled layout is taken verbatim from the Forest River factory floorplan record; the four plans without one are catalogued from published weights rather than described. Prime Time and Forest River publish no MSRP for the Tracer line, so street pricing is dealer-confirmed.

Six 2026 floorplans are profiled in full with RVUSA-verified specifications, spanning the line from the compact rear-bathroom couples plan to the family flagship: a rear-bathroom plan, two rear-kitchen couples plans, a metal-sided bunkhouse, a rear-living plan and the 295DB. Every profiled plan's layout, exterior material and awning size is taken verbatim from the Forest River factory floorplan record.

Four further 2026 Tracer floorplans are catalogued here from published specifications but not yet profiled in depth — the rear-living 220RS, the 250BH and 308BH bunkhouses and the 255DS couples plan. Like the profiled plans, all publish GVWR per plan with dry weight plus CCC equal to GVWR exactly.

The Tracer line sorts by layout and weight tier. For the lightest way in, the profiled 195RB is the shortest, lightest plan — a front bedroom and a rear bathroom, sleeping three at 5,013 pounds dry on a 585-pound tongue — and the catalogued 220RS is the lightest of all at 4,683 pounds dry. Both suit a well-rated half-ton or a capable mid-size SUV.

Choose by where the space goes. The 195RB pairs a front bedroom with a rear bathroom; the 235RK and 248RE are rear-kitchen plans (the 235RK adds a pass-through bathroom and a second entry, the 248RE a U-dinette); the 286RL opens a rear living area on dual slides with the biggest cargo margin of the couples plans; and the family plans run from the metal-sided 275BH, sleeping eight with dual entry, to the flagship 295DB with bunk beds, a front bedroom, dual entry and dual slides. At the top, the 295DB runs the biggest chassis in the line — a 9,850-pound GVWR and a 1,050-pound tongue — that wants an honestly rated half-ton or a small three-quarter-ton.

Across all of them the construction is the same laminated Touring build: a bumper-pull chassis with welded aluminum framing and a pinch-rolled laminated Eternabond structure, a Tufflex PVC lifetime-warranty roof, a fully enclosed drop-frame underbelly, the Camp King bed, an installed 200-watt solar panel and an on-demand tankless water heater. The decision is layout, weight tier and how many the plan sleeps. Its metal-sided value sibling, the Prime Time Avenger, sits a construction tier below on price.