2026 CrossRoads Zinger Lite260BH

The 260BH is the 252BH with a slide, a bigger fresh tank and a much heavier body. CrossRoads describes an ideal family trailer with a queen bed, two generous bunks and a cozy dinette, a well-appointed kitchen and a bathroom with a spacious shower, and says it comfortably sleeps up to six people — while the factory roster card rates it at ten. Both figures come from CrossRoads; the roster card is the one rendered here. It is about 31 feet with a 14-foot awning. The 2025 published standards for the tandem-axle Zinger Lite list the same Super Flex Alpha roof under a limited lifetime warranty, a heated and enclosed underbelly, a tankless water heater, a 3-burner range with a 17-inch oven and an electric awning.

The number to look hard at is the cargo capacity. CrossRoads publishes a 7,600-pound GVWR against a 6,144-pound dry weight, leaving 1,456 pounds — the tightest margin of all 21 plans in the Zinger family, on a plan rated for ten. The published cargo capacity is 1,456 pounds and the plan is rated to sleep 10. 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. Filling the 45-gallon fresh tank is roughly another 375 pounds against that figure. The 800-pound dry tongue is 228 pounds heavier than the 252BH's for two more feet of trailer.

The Zinger Lite is the lighter tandem-axle roster in the Zinger family — a separate floorplan set from the full-size Zinger and from the single-axle Zinger Lite Mini, not a trim of either. Five plans are profiled in full and linked below; the 295BH is catalogued and shown muted because CrossRoads publishes no hitch weight, cargo capacity or GVWR for it. The 260BH on this page is highlighted.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 45-gallon fresh tank is roughly 26% of the 1,456-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 260BH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 800 pounds is 13% of the 6,144-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 7,600-pound GVWR the 260BH is towing 1,456 pounds more than its 6,144-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 42 grey and 42 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 260BH sits 3 of 5 in the Zinger Lite line: 7,600 pounds against a line that runs from 7,500 to 8,800 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 Lite 252BH is 50 pounds lighter at 7,550 lb GVWR; and Zinger Lite 260RL is 1,200 pounds heavier at 8,800 lb GVWR.

Against the 260BH: the Coachmen Apex Ultra-Lite 242BARV is 2 ft shorter and sleeps 6 fewer; the Campsite Ultra 19KB is 9 ft shorter; the Classic Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian LE 28RB is 3 ft shorter and sleeps 6 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 Lite floorplans profiled here run 4,544 to 6,652 pounds dry and 25 to 33 feet of exterior length across 5 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 Lite line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the 260BH. 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 (91%) 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.