2026 Forest River Wildwood X-Lite26ICE

The Wildwood X-Lite 26ICE leaves Forest River's factory at 6,288 lbs dry with 1,497 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 39-gallon fresh tank spends 324 lbs of the 1,497 lbs before anything else goes in.

Forest River’s 2026 Wildwood / X-Lite brochure draws the 26ICE with a Versa-Tilt custom king bed with a closet and overhead cabinets at the front. Mid-coach: a hidden pantry, shelves and a wardrobe; a fireplace and TV; a dinette and a Versa-Lounge in a slide; and a kitchen with a microwave, a fridge and overhead cabinets. At the rear: 46-by-74-inch double-over-double bunks and a bath with a shower. It shows one slide-out and a 16-foot awning. Outside it labels an outside fridge and full pass-through storage. Layouts change with options; check the unit itself.

Tongue weight is 785 lbs, 12% 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: 90 gallons of grey and black capacity against 39 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 8th of 10 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 5,063 lbs to 6,688 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 6,288 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 7,036 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 publishes no written floorplan description for this plan; the layout described above is read off Forest River’s own floorplan drawing for this model year. 26ICE is a Wildwood X-Lite designation, and this site does not decode the code itself into a layout claim.

How the 26ICE 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.

• Fresh tank, 39 gal: smallest of ten; next are the 25ICE and 25RLXL (40 gal).
• Dry weight, 6,288 lb: third-heaviest of ten, between the 28VBXL (6,208 lb) and the 23ZEN (6,398 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,497 lb: third-smallest of ten, between the 23ZEN (1,432 lb) and the 25ICE (1,522 lb).
• Tongue weight, 785 lb: third-heaviest of ten, between the 25ICE (700 lb) and the 28VBXL (790 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.5%: third-largest of ten, between the 263BHXL (11.7%) and the 28VBXL (12.7%).
• Length, 32 ft 9 in: third-longest of ten, between the 28ICE (32 ft 2 in) and the 273QBXL (33 ft 3 in).
• Grey tank, 60 gal: shared with the 25ICE, 25RLXL and 263BHXL; of ten, five smaller and one larger, nearest the 23ZEN (40 gal) and the 240BHXL (74 gal).

Next to the 28VBXL, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 26ICE is 80 lb heavier by dry weight, has 85 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 5 lb lighter, is 10 in shorter, has a fresh tank 5 gal smaller, has a grey tank 32 gal larger and has a black tank 2 gal larger; the two publish the same exterior height.

Next to the 23ZEN, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 26ICE is 110 lb lighter by dry weight, has 65 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 45 lb lighter, is 1 ft 8 in longer, stands 1 in lower, has a fresh tank 5 gal smaller and has a grey tank 20 gal larger; the two publish the same black tank.

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 39-gallon fresh tank is about 324 lb of water, 22% of the 26ICE’s 1,497 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,173 lb. Across 10 Wildwood X-Lite floorplans the water share runs 15% to 37%, and 4 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Wildwood X-Lite 273QBXL at 21% and Wildwood X-Lite 25ICE at 22%.