2026 Cherokee Alpha Wolf22SW

The 22SW is the lightest of the eleven plans on Forest River’s 2026 Alpha Wolf roster (saved 6 Aug 2026). That roster prints four figures per plan — hitch weight, UVW, CCC and length — and for the 22SW they are 735 pounds, 5,513 pounds, 2,222 pounds and 27 ft 0 in. It labels every 2026 Alpha Wolf plan Dealer Stock Only.

The 22SW is not in Forest River’s December 2025 Alpha Wolf brochure, and no saved Forest River document prints its GVWR, height, width, grey or black tank, awnings, slides or floorplan. This page therefore does not describe its layout; check the unit itself. Its 2,222-pound CCC is the sixth-largest of the eleven, on the second-shortest body after the 21RB.

The brochure’s standard, Weather Guard and Limited package lists apply line-wide: laminated exterior walls with block-foam insulation, a drop-frame design with “SuperStor” basement storage, an 81-gallon “Niagara” fresh tank, an armored underbelly tank enclosure with forced-air heat and 12-volt heat pads, a 15,000-BTU central air conditioner, an on-demand tankless water heater, a 12-volt residential-style refrigerator, 4-corner power stabilizer jacks, a power front jack and the Juice Pack 100-watt solar package.

How the 22SW differs from the other six Alpha Wolf floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 5,513 lb: lightest of seven; next is the 25RB (6,581 lb).
• GVWR, 7,735 lb: lowest of six; next is the 25RB (7,910 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 28.7%: largest of six; next is the 26RL (25.6%).
• Tongue weight, 735 lb: lightest of seven; next is the 25RB (910 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 13.3%: smallest of seven; next is the 33RL (13.5%).
• Length, 27 ft: shortest of seven; next is the 25RB (31 ft 1 in).
• Cargo capacity, 2,222 lb: third-smallest of seven, between the 26DBH (1,330 lb) and the 29DCB (2,317 lb).

Next to the 25RB, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 22SW is 1,068 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 175 lb lower, has 893 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 175 lb lighter and is 4 ft 1 in shorter; the two publish the same fresh tank.

Alpha Wolf is the laminated-fiberglass tier of Forest River's Cherokee travel-trailer family — a construction step above the metal-sided Grey Wolf and Wolf Den on the same drop-frame bumper-pull architecture, and a cross-shop against Forest River's own Salem / Wildwood, Jayco's Jay Flight, Keystone's Passport and Coachmen's Catalina. Eleven floorplans are published for 2026.

A full 81-gallon fresh tank is about 672 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 30% of the 22SW’s 2,222 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,550 lb. Across 7 Alpha Wolf floorplans the water share runs 26% to 51%, and 2 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Alpha Wolf 29DCB at 29% and Alpha Wolf 26DBH at 51%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).