2026 Forest River Arctic Wolf38LEAH.G

The 38LEAH.G is Arctic Wolf’s flagship and the line’s halo plan — RV News’ 2026 RV of the Year in the mid-price fifth-wheel class, developed as a Forest River collaboration with the RV influencer Leah Goodrich as an extended-stay, digital-nomad full-timer coach. It is the only Arctic Wolf with a true laundry room and a standard washer and dryer (every other plan offers only prep), and one of two with a compact under-cabinet dishwasher. It pairs a bath-and-a-half with a king bed slide, a bedroom projector and fireplace, a butcher-block island, an oversized pantry, and an L-shaped sectional rear lounge with a desk workspace, under three slide-outs. At 43 feet 6 inches it is the longest Arctic Wolf, and at about 12,563 pounds dry it is the heaviest profiled. 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 12,563-pound UVW and a 2,772-pound CCC, which derive a 15,335-pound GVWR (the manufacturer’s own definition is that CCC equals GVWR minus UVW), against a 2,360-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 16-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, the standard washer and dryer, a dishwasher, 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 dual 17-foot and 12-foot power awnings.

US street pricing has run around the mid-$60,000s (units have advertised near $63,995) with published MSRP higher. It is the award-winning, full-timer flagship Arctic Wolf. For a couple or a remote-working full-timer who wants a bath-and-a-half, a true laundry room with a standard washer and dryer, a dishwasher, a king bed slide and an L-shaped sectional with a desk in the longest, most-equipped coach of the line — towed behind a properly rated three-quarter-ton or larger truck — the 38LEAH.G is the line’s flagship and its RV-of-the-Year 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 38LEAH.G 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 24% of the 2,772-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 38LEAH.G with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 2,360 pounds is 19% of this floorplan’s 12,563-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 15,335-pound GVWR the 38LEAH.G is towing 2,772 pounds more than its 12,563-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 70 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 6 Arctic Wolf floorplans profiled here, the 38LEAH.G carries the highest GVWR at 15,335 pounds. It is the top of the line by weight, which makes tow-vehicle capability the first thing to settle rather than the last.

Either side of it in the same line: Arctic Wolf 3250SUITE is 3,295 pounds lighter at 12,040 lb GVWR.

Against the 38LEAH.G: the Sabre 36FLX is 32 lb lighter and 2 ft shorter and sleeps 6 more; the Sandpiper 3990FL is 40 lb heavier and sleeps 4 more; the Sierra 3990FL is 40 lb heavier. 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 38LEAH.G. 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 (95%) 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.