2026 Forest River Wildwood X-Lite240BHXL

The Wildwood X-Lite 240BHXL leaves Forest River's factory at 5,343 lbs dry with 2,227 lbs of cargo capacity. Forest River 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 44-gallon fresh tank spends 365 lbs of the 2,227 lbs before anything else goes in.

Forest River’s 2026 Wildwood / X-Lite brochure draws the 240BHXL with a Versa-Tilt custom king bed with a closet and overhead cabinets at the front. Mid-coach: an entertainment center with a fireplace; a slide under a panoramic window, with a walk-in pantry; and a kitchen with a fridge and overhead cabinets. At the rear: 46-by-74-inch double-over-double bunks and a bath with a walk-in shower. It shows one slide-out and an 18-foot awning. Outside it labels an outside kitchen and full pass-through storage. Layouts change with options; check the unit itself.

Tongue weight is 570 lbs, 11% 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: 106 gallons of grey and black capacity against 44 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Wildwood X-Lite roster this is the 2nd of 10 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 5,063 lbs to 6,688 lbs. It sits in the lighter third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 5,343 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 6,457 lbs. Forest River 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).

Forest River’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 Forest River does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

Forest River's own description of this floorplan reads: “The 240BHXL weighs in at less than 6,000 lbs. for increased towability, without sacrificing any of the comfort! This double-over-double bunkhouse packs a lot of features into its 28'10” length, including a large comfy booth dinette with panoramic windows, walk-in pantry, modern kitchen with stove, cooktop, microwave, and an oversized refrigerator! The bathroom provides a walk-in shower with skylight and a convenient…” That is the factory's marketing copy rather than a specification, and nothing in it is treated as a verified field on this page - layout descriptions, sleeping arrangements and feature claims in factory copy are not carried into the spec table unless the factory also publishes them as specifications.

How the 240BHXL differs from the other nine Wildwood X-Lite floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2026). How these ranks are worked out.

• Grey tank, 74 gal: largest of ten; next are the 25ICE, 25RLXL and two others (60 gal).
• Dry weight, 5,343 lb: second-lightest of ten, between the 24RLXL (5,063 lb) and the 25RLXL (5,363 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 2,227 lb: second-largest of ten, between the 25RLXL (2,000 lb) and the 24RLXL (2,487 lb).
• Length, 28 ft 10 in: second-shortest of ten, between the 25RLXL (28 ft 8 in) and the 24RLXL (28 ft 11 in).
• Black tank, 32 gal: second-largest of ten, between the 23ZEN, 25ICE and five others (30 gal) and the 24RLXL (40 gal).
• Tongue weight, 570 lb: third-lightest of ten, between the 25RLXL (565 lb) and the 28ICE (675 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 10.7%: third-smallest of ten, between the 25RLXL (10.5%) and the 24RLXL (10.9%).

Next to the 24RLXL, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 240BHXL is 280 lb heavier by dry weight, has 260 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 20 lb heavier, is 1 in shorter, stands 1 in lower, has a grey tank 44 gal larger and has a black tank 8 gal smaller; the two publish the same fresh tank.

Next to the 25RLXL (2027 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 240BHXL is 20 lb lighter by dry weight, has 227 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 5 lb heavier, is 2 in longer, stands 1 in lower, has a fresh tank 4 gal larger, has a grey tank 14 gal larger and has a black tank 2 gal larger.

Wildwood X-Lite is the value-tier travel trailer in the Wildwood family, seventeen published floorplans from 3,836 to 8,143 lb dry on lengths of 22 feet 8 inches to 34 feet 7 inches. Tongue weight runs 520 to 965 lb across the whole roster, which is light for the length. Eight of the seventeen plans are dealer-stock-only, including a separate West Coast dealer-stock grouping the factory lists on its own. Forest River publishes no GVWR for any X-Lite floorplan.

A full 44-gallon fresh tank is about 365 lb of water, 16% of the 240BHXL’s 2,227 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,862 lb. Across 10 Wildwood X-Lite floorplans the water share runs 15% to 37%, and 8 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Wildwood X-Lite 24RLXL at 15% and Wildwood X-Lite 25RLXL at 17%.