2026 CrossRoads Zinger290KB

The 290KB is where the Zinger roster turns into a family trailer. CrossRoads describes it as a family-friendly plan with two bunks and a queen bedroom, a well-equipped kitchen and a living area with a dinette and entertainment centre, and rates it to sleep eleven in about 34 feet on two slides. Eleven berths at this price is the cheapest double-digit berth count anywhere in the Zinger family. The 2025 published standards for the line list a Super Flex Alpha roof under a limited lifetime warranty, a heated and enclosed underbelly, front diamond plate, pass-through storage, a tankless water heater and an electric awning.

CrossRoads publishes a 9,600-pound GVWR against a 7,062-pound dry weight, leaving 2,538 pounds of cargo capacity and an 842-pound dry tongue. The tank set is 45/39/39 gallons fresh/grey/black — the smallest grey and black tanks on the Zinger roster, which is worth weighing against the eleven-berth rating if you dry-camp with a full crew. The published cargo capacity is 2,538 pounds and the plan is rated to sleep 11. Occupants count against cargo capacity, so a full crew plus gear will use most of it — load to the weight sticker, not to the berth count.

As with the 280RB, the factory marks the 290KB dealer-stock only.

The Zinger is CrossRoads' full-size value travel trailer. It is one of three separate rosters in the Zinger family — the lighter Zinger Lite and the single-axle Zinger Lite Mini carry their own floorplan codes and their own weights, and nothing is shared between them. All nine 2026 Zinger plans are profiled in full and linked below. The 290KB on this page is highlighted.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 45-gallon fresh tank is roughly 15% of the 2,538-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 290KB with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 842 pounds is 12% of the 7,062-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 9,600-pound GVWR the 290KB is towing 2,538 pounds more than its 7,062-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 45 gallons of fresh against 39 grey and 39 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 290KB sits 2 of 9 in the Zinger line: 9,600 pounds against a line that runs from 9,500 to 13,200 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Zinger 280RB is 100 pounds lighter at 9,500 lb GVWR; and Zinger 292RE matches it exactly at 9,600 lb GVWR.

1 other Zinger plan shares this floorplan’s 9,600 lb GVWR, so the ranking above separates plans that tow to the same ceiling. On a shared chassis the figure that actually differs between them is cargo capacity and where the weight sits, not the rating.

Against the 290KB: the Jay Feather 31BH is 4 ft longer and sleeps 1 fewer; the Jay Flight 290RLS is 1 ft longer and sleeps 5 fewer; the Puma 30RKQS is 2 ft longer and sleeps 7 fewer. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest travel trailers from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Zinger floorplans profiled here run 6,822 to 10,517 pounds dry and 33 to 43 feet of exterior length across 9 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Zinger line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the 290KB. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: exterior width, interior height, tire size (a tire description is published, a size is not). If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (93%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

Values on this page carrying an asterisk were derived by arithmetic from published figures, or come from a single source, rather than being printed directly by the manufacturer. The flag travels with the number into the downloadable spec sheet.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.