2026 Cherokee Alpha Wolf33RL

The 33RL puts a tri-fold sofa across the rear between end tables, with theater seating, a pantry, microwave and 12-volt refrigerator in one slide and an entertainment center with a fireplace, a free-standing table, chairs and a storage ottoman in the other. The drawing in Forest River’s December 2025 Alpha Wolf brochure also shows a kitchen island, a hutch, a shower bath beside a closet with washer/dryer prep, and a front bedroom with a 72-by-80 king bed in a slide, a dresser with a fireplace, wardrobes and a sun bench at the front window. Outside: a kitchen with a refrigerator, ice maker and a TV the drawing labels standard, 14-foot and 11-foot awnings and outside storage. Three slide-outs and one entry door.

Forest River’s December 2025 Alpha Wolf brochure prints an 8,833-pound UVW, a 2,562-pound CCC and a 1,195-pound hitch weight, 39 ft 3 in long, 11 ft 4 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.

At 8,833 pounds unloaded, 39 ft 3 in and 11 ft 4 in it is the heaviest, longest and tallest of the ten plans in the brochure. For a couple living aboard for weeks, the king bed and the washer/dryer prep are the features to look at. 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 33RL differs from the other six Alpha Wolf floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 8,833 lb: heaviest of seven; next is the 33BH (8,063 lb).
• GVWR, 11,395 lb: highest of six; next is the 33BH (10,665 lb).
• Tongue weight, 1,195 lb: heaviest of seven; next is the 29DCB (1,165 lb).
• Length, 39 ft 3 in: longest of seven; next is the 29DCB (37 ft 5 in).
• Exterior height, 11 ft 4 in: tallest of six; next are the 26RL and 33BH (11 ft 2 in).
• Cargo capacity, 2,562 lb: second-largest of seven, between the 26RL (2,492 lb) and the 33BH (2,602 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 13.5%: second-smallest of seven, between the 22SW (13.3%) and the 25RB (13.8%).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 22.5%: third-smallest of six, between the 25RB (16.8%) and the 33BH (24.4%).
• Slide-out count, 3: most of six, level with the 33BH; next is the 26RL (2).

Next to the 33BH, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 33RL is 770 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 730 lb higher, has 40 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 60 lb heavier, is 2 ft 1 in longer, stands 2 in taller and has a black tank 35 gal smaller; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and slide-out count.

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 571.120 S10.4.2), 26% of the 33RL’s 2,562 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,890 lb. Across 7 Alpha Wolf floorplans the water share runs 26% to 51%, and 5 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Alpha Wolf 33BH at 26% and Alpha Wolf 26RL at 27%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).