2026 Forest River Arctic Wolf289PANO

The 289PANO is new for 2026 and Arctic Wolf’s panoramic rear-living couple’s plan. It pairs a private front bedroom with a mid bath and a mid kitchen, opening to a rear living room with dual opposing slide-outs, a rear entertainment wall and a living-room Televator television, all washed in light from panoramic windows. It sleeps four. Distinctively for the line, a second 15,000-BTU air conditioner is standard rather than optional. It rides the full Arctic Wolf build: a 2-inch full-cage aluminum frame, laminated exterior walls under the Elemental Protection Package, an enclosed heated underbelly and automatic leveling.

Forest River publishes a 9,348-pound UVW and a 2,622-pound CCC, which derive an 11,970-pound GVWR (the manufacturer’s own definition is that CCC equals GVWR minus UVW), against a 1,770-pound dry pin. Twin 15,000-BTU air conditioners, a 35,000-BTU furnace, a 5,200-BTU electric fireplace, a tankless water heater, a 10-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, solid-surface counters and an 81-gallon Niagara fresh tank are standard, with a mandatory 100-watt Juice Pack solar package (expandable to 500 watts), a Series 27 battery and a 30-amp charge controller, under a 15-foot power awning.

US street pricing has run in the high $50,000s to around $60,000 (one dealer published an MSRP near $93,905, with street pricing far below placard). It is the newer, fully-cooled couple’s Arctic Wolf. For a couple who wants a panoramic rear living room with dual opposing slides, a mid kitchen and a second air conditioner standard in a value-mid full-size fifth wheel — towed behind a properly rated three-quarter-ton or larger truck — the 289PANO is the line’s newest couple’s plan.

Arctic Wolf is Forest River's value-mid full-size fifth wheel — a step below the brand's own premium-mainstream sibling Sandpiper, and the value entry to Forest River full-size fifth-wheel ownership. Six of the most distinct 2026 floorplans are profiled here in full. The 289PANO on this page is highlighted; each other plan links to its own page.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 81-gallon fresh tank is roughly 26% of the 2,622-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 289PANO with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 1,770 pounds is 19% of this floorplan’s 9,348-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 11,970-pound GVWR the 289PANO is towing 2,622 pounds more than its 9,348-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 81 gallons of fresh against 70 grey and 35 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 289PANO sits 4 of 6 in the Arctic Wolf line: 11,970 pounds against a line that runs from 9,995 to 15,335 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: Arctic Wolf 331BH is 125 pounds lighter at 11,845 lb GVWR; and Arctic Wolf 3250SUITE is 70 pounds heavier at 12,040 lb GVWR.

Against the 289PANO: the Reflection 32BH is 25 lb heavier and 1 ft longer and sleeps 3 more; the Cardinal 32CHILL is 218 lb heavier; the Eagle 31QBH is 270 lb lighter and sleeps 3 more. 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 fifth wheels 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 Arctic Wolf floorplans profiled here run 7,893 to 12,563 pounds dry and 30 to 44 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 Arctic Wolf line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 18 of them for the 289PANO. 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: tire size (a tire description is published, a size is not). 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 (94%) 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.

Values on this page carrying an asterisk were derived by arithmetic from published figures, or come from a single source, rather than being printed directly by the manufacturer. The flag travels with the number into the downloadable spec sheet.

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