2026 Cherokee Alpha Wolf26RL

The 26RL puts the living room across the rear: a tri-fold sofa between end tables under overhead cabinets, an angled entertainment center with a fireplace, and theater seating with a free-standing table, chairs and a storage ottoman in a slide. The drawing in Forest River’s December 2025 Alpha Wolf brochure also shows a kitchen slide with a pantry, microwave and 12-volt refrigerator, a kitchen island, a hutch and a second pantry, a shower bath, and a front 60-by-80 queen bedroom with wardrobes. Two slide-outs, one entry door, an 11-foot and a 9-foot awning, outside storage and a rear accessory hitch.

Forest River’s December 2025 Alpha Wolf brochure prints a 7,258-pound UVW, a 2,492-pound CCC and a 1,080-pound hitch weight, 34 ft 6 in long, 11 ft 2 in high and 96 inches wide, with 81-gallon fresh, 70-gallon grey and 35-gallon black tanks; Forest River’s 2026 Alpha Wolf roster (saved 6 Aug 2026) agrees on the four figures it prints. Neither prints a GVWR, so none is shown and none is computed.

Its 2,492-pound CCC is close to double the 25RB’s 1,329 pounds on a body 3 ft 5 in longer. 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 26RL differs from the other six Alpha Wolf floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 25.6%: second-largest of six, between the 33BH (24.4%) and the 22SW (28.7%).
• GVWR, 9,750 lb: third-highest of six, between the 26DBH (7,955 lb) and the 33BH (10,665 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 2,492 lb: third-largest of seven, between the 29DCB (2,317 lb) and the 33RL (2,562 lb).
• Slide-out count, 2: third-most of six, between the 25RB, 26DBH and 29DCB (1) and the 33BH and 33RL (3).
• Dry weight, 7,258 lb: fourth-lightest of seven, between the 26DBH (6,625 lb) and the 29DCB (7,818 lb).
• Tongue weight, 1,080 lb: fourth-lightest of seven, between the 26DBH (955 lb) and the 33BH (1,135 lb).
• Length, 34 ft 6 in: fourth-shortest of seven, between the 26DBH (32 ft 8 in) and the 33BH (37 ft 2 in).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 14.9%: largest of seven, level with the 29DCB; next is the 26DBH (14.4%).
• Exterior height, 11 ft 2 in: shared with the 33BH; of six, three lower and one taller, nearest the 25RB, 26DBH and 29DCB (11 ft) and the 33RL (11 ft 4 in).

Next to the 26DBH, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 26RL is 633 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,795 lb higher, has 1,162 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 125 lb heavier, is 1 ft 10 in longer, stands 2 in taller, has a grey tank 35 gal larger and has one more slide-out; the two publish the same fresh tank and black tank.

Next to the 29DCB, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 26RL is 560 lb lighter by dry weight, has 175 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 85 lb lighter, is 2 ft 11 in shorter, stands 2 in taller and has one more slide-out; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black 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), 27% of the 26RL’s 2,492 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,820 lb. Across 7 Alpha Wolf floorplans the water share runs 26% to 51%, and 4 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Alpha Wolf 33RL at 26% and Alpha Wolf 29DCB at 29%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).