CrossRoadsZinger

The Zinger is CrossRoads' full-size value travel trailer — a bumper-pull tandem-axle line running from about 32 to 43 feet, and the volume seller in the CrossRoads towable catalogue. CrossRoads RV, based in Goshen, Indiana and a division of Thor Industries, positions Zinger against the price-leaders: Forest River's Salem / Wildwood and Aurora, Prime Time's Avenger, Keystone's Springdale, Coachmen's Catalina and Palomino's Puma.

Before you compare a Zinger against anything, know which Zinger you are looking at. Zinger, Zinger Lite and Zinger Lite Mini are three separate rosters, not three trims of one line — they share no floorplan codes at all, they carry three separate model records at the industry spec databases, and they have three different model-year histories: the Zinger has been in production since 2009, the Zinger Lite since 2018, and the Zinger Lite Mini is new for 2026. A dealer listing that says “Zinger 18BH” and one that says “Zinger Lite Mini 18BH” may or may not be the same trailer depending on the year, because the 18-series moved rosters for 2026 and was re-specified on the way. This page covers the Zinger roster only; the lighter tandem-axle Zinger Lite and the single-axle Zinger Lite Mini have their own.

Unusually for the value bracket, every figure that matters here is published. CrossRoads gives an MSRP, a travel length, a dry weight and a maximum sleeping capacity for all nine plans on its roster card, and an exterior height, a dry tongue weight, a cargo carrying capacity, an axle count, all three tank capacities and an awning length for each on its floorplan pages. The independent RVUSA records agree with the factory exactly on dry weight, price, length, tongue weight, cargo capacity, fresh and grey capacity and axle count across the whole roster, and supply the GVWR the factory omits — and on all nine plans the dry weight plus the cargo capacity equals that GVWR to the pound. That is a clean published-GVWR line, so every weight on this hub is shown with no derivation and no asterisk.

Two things are not published, and this site does not invent them. CrossRoads gives no exterior width and no axle rating for the line. And while the spec databases print an interior height, they print the same interior height for all 21 plans across all three Zinger rosters — including the 16-foot Mini — while the factory brochure prints a different figure again, so it is not a per-plan measurement and no interior height is shown anywhere on these pages. Standards and options quoted here are the 2025 published lists, the most recent literature CrossRoads publishes for the line, and are labelled 2025 throughout rather than asserted as 2026 equipment.

All nine 2026 Zinger floorplans are profiled in full — the complete factory roster, not a selection. They run from the 32-foot 280RB, the cheapest and the one with the biggest cargo margin, to the 43-foot 390DB flagship, and take in three plans rated to sleep twelve. Every layout description below is taken from the CrossRoads factory floorplan record; five plans (280RB, 320FB, 328SB, 340BH and 340LR) publish no layout description anywhere on the factory site, so their rows show the published slide and berth counts instead and their pages make no layout claim.

The Zinger roster sorts on two questions: how many berths, and how much cargo margin you are willing to give up to get them. For the lightest and loosest way in, the 280RB is the cheapest plan, the shortest, the only single-slide plan, and carries 2,678 pounds of cargo capacity on the roster's lightest tongue — but it is dealer-stock only, so availability depends on the lot.

For families, three plans are rated for twelve. They are not equivalent. The 328SB is the cheapest of the three but leaves only 1,630 pounds of cargo; the 331BH is tighter still at 1,540, though it buys the roster's only 54-gallon fresh tank and 60-gallon grey and black tanks; and the 340BH steps up to an 11,450-pound GVWR, which buys back 658 pounds of cargo over the 331BH at the cost of the roster's heaviest tongue at 1,296 pounds. Below them the 290KB is the cheapest way to eleven berths in the line, with the caveat that it also carries the roster's smallest grey and black tanks. The 320FB sits in the middle at ten berths.

For couples, the 292RE puts recliners and a fireplace in a 34-foot body, the 340LR spends 38 feet on a lounge and returns the roster's second-largest cargo margin at 2,527 pounds, and the 390DB is the 43-foot flagship with a king bed, a queen bed and the only 84-gallon black tank in the line. Note the awnings do not track length: the 292RE gets 10 feet and the 340LR 11, while the 320FB, 331BH and 340BH all get 20. If a patio matters, check that column before the floorplan.