2026 Forest River Wildwood X-Lite273QBXL

The Wildwood X-Lite 273QBXL leaves Forest River's factory at 5,975 lbs dry with 1,705 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 1,705 lbs before anything else goes in.

Forest River’s 2026 Wildwood / X-Lite brochure draws the 273QBXL 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 Versa-Lounge in a slide under a panoramic window; a kitchen with a fridge and overhead cabinets; a bath with a walk-in shower; and a pantry. At the rear: a bunk room with a 30-by-74-inch fold-up bunk bed over a Jiffy sofa and a 30-by-74-inch bunk bed. It shows one slide-out and a 16-foot awning. Outside it labels an outside kitchen and full pass-through storage. Layouts change with options; check the unit itself.

Tongue weight is 680 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: 60 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 5th of 10 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 5,063 lbs to 6,688 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 5,975 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 6,827 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 273QBXL is a versatile, lightweight bunkhouse that weighs in at less than 6,000 lbs. This travel trailer is packed with features, including bunks, an outside kitchen, U-dinette, Versa-Lounge, and walk-in shower. The kitchen includes an oversized 11 CU. FT. refrigerator, stovetop, oven, and pantry.” 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 273QBXL 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.

• Length, 33 ft 3 in: second-longest of ten, between the 26ICE (32 ft 9 in) and the 28VBXL (33 ft 7 in).
• Dry weight, 5,975 lb: fifth-lightest of ten, between the 263BHXL (5,854 lb) and the 25ICE (6,178 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,705 lb: fifth-largest of ten, between the 28VBXL (1,582 lb) and the 263BHXL (1,828 lb).
• Tongue weight, 680 lb: fifth-lightest of ten, between the 28ICE (675 lb) and the 263BHXL (682 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.4%: fifth-largest of ten, between the 25ICE (11.3%) and the 263BHXL (11.7%).
• Grey tank, 30 gal: shared with the 24RLXL and 28ICE; of ten, one smaller and six larger, nearest the 28VBXL (28 gal) and the 23ZEN (40 gal).

Next to the 263BHXL, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 273QBXL is 121 lb heavier by dry weight, has 123 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 2 lb lighter, is 1 ft 6 in longer and has a grey tank 30 gal smaller; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank and black tank.

Next to the 25ICE, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 273QBXL is 203 lb lighter by dry weight, has 183 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 20 lb lighter, is 3 ft 5 in longer, has a fresh tank 4 gal larger and has a grey tank 30 gal smaller; the two publish the same exterior height and 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 44-gallon fresh tank is about 365 lb of water, 21% of the 273QBXL’s 1,705 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,340 lb. Across 10 Wildwood X-Lite floorplans the water share runs 15% to 37%, and 5 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Wildwood X-Lite 263BHXL at 20% and Wildwood X-Lite 26ICE at 22%.