2026 Cherokee Alpha Wolf25RB

The 25RB is the Alpha Wolf aimed squarely at solo campers and couples. Forest River describes it as one entry and one slide out with a fiberglass exterior, a front bedroom and a rear bathroom, and highlights the rear bathroom itself as the feature: spacious, with plenty of storage. The kitchen carries a hidden pantry, a 12-volt refrigerator, a farm-style sink, an oven and a microwave, and the dinette doubles as an extra bed alongside the theatre seating.

A rear bathroom running the full width is the trade this plan makes. It buys a genuinely comfortable bath for two people living aboard, and it spends the length that a bunkhouse plan would use for berths. At 31 feet 1 inch and 6,581 pounds dry it sits mid-pack in the line, but the published 7,910-pound GVWR leaves only 1,329 pounds of cargo — the tightest margin of any Alpha Wolf. The dry tongue is 910 pounds.

That cargo figure deserves attention rather than alarm. It is a couples' trailer, and two people's gear does not weigh 1,300 pounds — but 81 gallons of fresh water does weigh about 672, and filling the tank consumes half the margin before anything else goes aboard. The rest of the build is line-standard: laminated fiberglass over block foam on a drop frame, a Super Truss roof under a lifetime PVC membrane, an armored heated underbelly, tankless hot water, four power stabilizer jacks, the Juice Pack solar package, and a 15-foot awning over 81/35/35 tanks.

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 half-ton 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.

Water dominates the load plan on this floorplan. Filling the 81-gallon fresh tank consumes about 51% of the 1,329-pound cargo capacity, which means the 25RB is realistically a travel-with-partial-water trailer unless you are heading somewhere with no hookups and are prepared to leave gear behind.

The published dry tongue weight of 910 pounds is 14% of the 6,581-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 7,910-pound GVWR the 25RB is towing 1,329 pounds more than its 6,581-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is worth a look before a long boondocking trip: 81 gallons of fresh against 35 grey and 35 black. Waste capacity is smaller than supply, so on this floorplan the grey tank fills before the fresh tank empties — the drain schedule, not the fill, is what ends the stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 25RB sits 2 of 6 in the Alpha Wolf line: 7,910 pounds against a line that runs from 7,735 to 11,395 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: Alpha Wolf 22SW is 175 pounds lighter at 7,735 lb GVWR; and Alpha Wolf 26DBH is 45 pounds heavier at 7,955 lb GVWR.

Against the 25RB: the Jay Flight 262RLS is 10 lb lighter; the Prowler 2601RLS is 10 lb lighter; the Cherokee Grey Wolf 26BRB is 17 lb lighter and 2 ft longer. 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 Alpha Wolf floorplans profiled here run 5,513 to 8,833 pounds dry and 27 to 39 feet of exterior length across 6 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 Alpha Wolf line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 14 of them for the 25RB. 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: interior height, sleeps, axle count, tire specification. 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 (96%) 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.

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