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2026 Forest River Campsite Reserve19KR

a 26-foot travel trailer that leaves the factory at 4,993 lbs dry and is rated to carry 2,732 lbs of cargo.

Tow-Critical Data — as built, MY2026

4,993lb
Dry Weight
7,725lb
GVWR
725lb
Tongue Weight
26ft
Length
2,732 lb cargo Travel Trailer · Toy Haulers Built by · Forest River Model year · 2026

01 What makes it unique

The Campsite Reserve 19KR leaves Forest River's factory at 4,993 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 7,725 lbs and 2,732 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 35% of the loaded rating, and Forest River's own definition is worth reading before you plan against it: cargo capacity is what remains for fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory. Fresh water alone is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling this trailer's 52-gallon fresh tank spends 432 lbs of that 2,732 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry tongue weight is 725 lbs, or 15% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits inside it as published. Tongue weight is not fixed: it moves with how the trailer is loaded, and weight added ahead of the axles raises it. A weight-distribution hitch is the normal fitment at this tongue load, and the tow vehicle's tongue-weight limit is a separate number from its trailer-weight limit.

Tank capacities are 52 gallons fresh, 38 grey and 28 black, 66 gallons of waste capacity against 52 gallons of supply. The ratio is what governs how long the trailer can sit off hookups: waste capacity exceeds fresh, so the fresh tank is the binding constraint and refilling extends the stay. Forest River publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Campsite Reserve roster this is the 7th of 22 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 3,764 lbs to 12,380 lbs. It sits in the lighter third of the line. Comparing floorplans inside one line is more reliable than comparing across brands, because every figure here comes from the same factory channel on the same day.

A useful way to read the pair of weights is to stop planning against the dry figure. Nobody tows a trailer at 4,993 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity, which is modest for a family trip, and this plan is already near 6,359 lbs on the road. Compare that number against the tow vehicle, not the dry weight, and leave margin on top of it - the published GVWR of 7,725 lbs is a limit rather than a target.

Every number above was captured twice from Forest River and checked against itself before it was published. The line roster block and the individual floorplan page are two separate factory renderings of the same trailer, and this plan's 4 shared figures agree exactly on both. Dry weight plus cargo capacity also equals the published GVWR exactly, which is the arithmetic check this site runs on every profiled floorplan. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because Forest River does not publish it in this channel, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

Forest River publishes no floorplan description for this plan in the channel this page is built from - only the numeric specification block. Rather than describe a layout from the floorplan code, which would be a guess dressed as a fact, this page carries what the factory publishes and says where it stops. 19KR is a Campsite Reserve designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

02 Full specifications

Dimensions

Exterior length
26' 0"
Exterior height
10' 11"
Exterior width
96"

Weights

Dry / unit base weight (UVW)
4,993 lbs
GVWR (max loaded)
7,725 lbs
Net cargo / payload (CCC)
2,732 lbs
Dry tongue (hitch) weight
725 lbs

Capacities

Fresh water
52 gal
Grey water
38 gal
Black water
28 gal

Running gear

Hitch type
Bumper pull (weight-distribution recommended)
Axles
Not published by Forest River
Tires
Not published by Forest River

Sleeping & layout

Sleeps
Not published by Forest River
Awnings
15'

Verified specs, drawn to scale

Original graphics built from this floorplan’s own verified figures.

Loaded weight budget

Loaded weight budget for the 19KRHorizontal bar. Dry weight 4,993 pounds, then cargo capacity 2,732 pounds, against a GVWR of 7,725 pounds. Dry tongue weight 725 pounds on the same scale.GVWR 7,725 lbsDry 4,993 lbsCargo capacity 2,732 lbsDry tongue weight 725 lbs — same scale
Drawn from this page’s published figures. The bar runs from empty to GVWR: the dark band is dry weight, the light band is everything you are allowed to add — water, propane, batteries and gear all come out of it.

Size, drawn to scale

Scale outline of the 19KRScale outline of the 19KR. Overall length 26' 0", overall height 10' 11", overall width 8' 0".end view8' 0"26' 0" overall length10' 11"
Overall length and height are drawn true to scale from the published figures, and the end view uses the same scale. Axle count is as published; axle position, wheel size and the nose profile are schematic. This is a size drawing, not a floorplan, and not a claim about body shape.

Holding tanks

Holding tank capacities for the 19KRHolding tank capacities: fresh 52 gallons, grey 38 gallons, black 28 gallons.Fresh52 galGrey38 galBlack28 gal
Published tank capacities on one scale. A full fresh tank is about 434 lbs of water — roughly 16% of this plan’s 2,732 lb cargo capacity, before you load anything else.

These graphics are generated from the same verified record that builds the table above, and are published under this site’s own licence — nothing here is traced from, or derived from, a manufacturer drawing or photo. Where a figure is not published for this plan, the graphic that would need it is omitted rather than estimated. The full record is in the published dataset.

What it takes to tow this

Built from this floorplan’s verified weights. We publish the trailer side only.

Minimum tow rating your vehicle needs7,725 lb
Published dry tongue weight725 lb
Loaded tongue weight, typical range772–1,159 lb
Minimum receiver hitch capacity7,725 lb towed / 1,159 lb tongue
The tongue weight above is dry. It is the figure the manufacturer publishes for an empty trailer. Loaded — with water, propane, batteries and your gear — it runs higher, which is why the range row uses loaded weight. Sizing your truck off the dry number under-budgets your payload.
The arithmetic that actually binds. Open your driver’s door and read the payload figure on the yellow-and-white sticker — that number is specific to your truck as built. Subtract from it: loaded tongue weight (use the range above), every passenger, everything in the bed and cab, and the weight-distributing hitch itself where one is used. What is left is your margin. Payload, not tow rating, is what most half-ton owners run out of first.

We do not publish tow ratings for specific trucks. A single model can vary by thousands of pounds depending on engine, axle ratio, cab, drivetrain and package — the only authoritative figure is the one on your own door jamb. Loaded tongue percentages are industry convention for travel trailers (10–15% of loaded weight), not a measurement of this unit. Hitch classes are not used here as a rating: SAE J684 covers trailers to 10,000 lb GVWR and does not define Class V, and capacity boundaries differ between manufacturers — read the rating stamped on your hitch.

03 The Campsite Reserve floorplan family

Campsite Reserve is the widest single Forest River travel-trailer roster this site carries: dry weight runs 3,764 lb at the 16BC to 12,380 lb at the top of the loft group, and cargo capacity runs 1,020 to 4,336 lb. Dry tongue weight runs 431 to 1,425 lb and GVWR 5,531 to 14,000 lb. The loft plans are where the weight is -- the 39-series sits at the top of every column -- and the three toy haulers sit in the middle rather than the top, which is unusual for a line that carries both. Twenty-one of the twenty-two profileable plans tie out exactly against dry weight plus cargo capacity. The exception is 23TS, whose own arithmetic gives 7,795 lb against a published GVWR of 7,805; it is catalogued here with that disagreement stated and is not profiled.

FloorplanNominalSleepsNotable
16BC21' 10"3,7645,531Travel Trailers
17LS23' 10"4,3045,625Travel Trailers
18LM23' 9"4,5045,595Travel Trailers
20LJ25' 9"4,6887,580Travel Trailers
20AJ24' 7"4,6937,550Travel Trailers
23SF27' 6"4,8187,700Travel Trailers
19KR26' 0"4,9937,725Toy Haulers
25CY29' 2"5,1787,630Travel Trailers
23TS28' 0"5,3937,805Toy Haulers · published specifications only
23JW29' 7"5,8187,650Travel Trailers
25MW29' 8"6,0087,765Travel Trailers
26CJ32' 9"6,4217,674Travel Trailers
26RM33' 1"6,4887,920Travel Trailers
27MR34' 8"7,2439,985Travel Trailers
29TJ36' 11"7,3539,995Travel Trailers
28SW37' 11"7,57811,625Toy Haulers
32GT39' 10"7,5939,995Travel Trailers
20JW35' 8"8,77411,205Travel Trailers w/ Loft
39GB40' 7"8,91913,255Travel Trailers w/ Loft
39IB44' 6"11,03914,000Travel Trailers w/ Loft
39LA43' 9"12,19414,000Travel Trailers w/ Loft
39JD43' 4"12,38013,400Travel Trailers w/ Loft

Campsite Reserve is published in three factory groupings across twenty-three floorplans for 2026: fourteen Travel Trailers, five Travel Trailers with a loft, and three Toy Haulers. Every plan on the roster is a bumper-pull -- Forest River publishes a hitch weight, not a pin weight, on all of them, including the toy haulers -- so nothing on this line needs a fifth-wheel truck. One plan, 23CY, is marked dealer-stock-only on the factory roster and publishes no detail page, so it appears in the count of twenty-three and nowhere else on this site -- it is not catalogued and its specifications are not reproduced here. Forest River publishes dry weight, cargo capacity, dry tongue weight, GVWR, all three exterior dimensions and all three tank capacities for the remaining twenty-two. Sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size and MSRP are not published in this channel. Twenty of the twenty-two carry no factory floorplan description.

04 What owners & reviewers report

What Forest River does not publish for this line

Sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size and MSRP are absent from Forest River's specification channel for Campsite Reserve, so they are absent here. They are not estimated from the segment, not carried over from a sibling floorplan, and not taken from a dealer listing quoting itself. A tire size in particular is a safety-relevant number that differs between two codes a digit apart, and this site does not guess one.

Weigh it before you tow it

Every figure on this page is a factory publication for a standard build. Forest River's own footnote on unloaded weight calls it an estimated average based on a standard build with optional equipment, and options, dealer-installed accessories and the previous owner's additions all move it. The only weight that governs your towing decision is the one under your own trailer on a scale, loaded the way you actually travel.

SOURCING — ownership notes to be expanded with cited threads from owner communities & forums per the data plan

05 How it compares

Lighter
Campsite Reserve 23SF

4,818 lbs dry against this plan's 4,993 lbs, a difference of 175 lbs. Same line, same factory channel, same model year - so the gap is a real one rather than a difference in how two brands measure.

Heavier
Campsite Reserve 25CY

5,178 lbs dry, 185 lbs more than this plan, and 2,452 lbs of cargo capacity against this one's 2,732 lbs. Stepping up a floorplan usually buys length before it buys payload.

Most cargo in the line
Campsite Reserve 39GB

4,336 lbs of cargo capacity, the highest of the 21 Campsite Reserve floorplans profiled here. If payload rather than length is the binding constraint, that is the plan to compare against.

06 Loading it for a trip

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 52-gallon fresh tank is roughly 16% of the 2,732-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 19KR with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

Weight budgetFigureWhat it means
Cargo capacity as published (CCC)2,732 lbEverything you add: gear, water, propane, batteries, food, people’s belongings.
Fresh tank filled (52 gal × 8.34 lb)−434 lbWater is the heaviest thing most owners add, and it is added first.
Cargo budget left with a full fresh tank2,298 lb16% of this plan’s capacity is spent before a single bag is loaded.

The published dry tongue weight of 725 pounds is 15% of the 4,993-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 7,725-pound GVWR the 19KR is towing 2,732 pounds more than its 4,993-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 52 gallons of fresh against 38 grey and 28 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

07 Where this floorplan sits

Ranked by GVWR, the 19KR sits 10 of 21 in the Campsite Reserve line: 7,725 pounds against a line that runs from 5,531 to 14,000 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: Campsite Reserve 23SF is 25 pounds lighter at 7,700 lb GVWR; and Campsite Reserve 25MW is 40 pounds heavier at 7,765 lb GVWR.

Comparable travel trailersGVWR (lb)Dry (lb)SleepsLength
19KR7,7254,99326 ft 0 in
Cascade 26SSC7,7256,20330 ft 9 in
Viking 262DBS7,7256,09331 ft 11 in
Ozark 25CP7,7206,28829 ft 7 in
Alpha Wolf 22SW7,7355,51327 ft 0 in
Campsite Ultra 25JT7,7356,80830 ft 1 in
Surveyor Legend 252RBLE7,7356,03329 ft 7 in

Against the 19KR: the Cascade 26SSC is 5 ft longer; the Viking 262DBS is 6 ft longer; the Ozark 25CP is 5 lb lighter and 4 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 Campsite Reserve floorplans profiled here run 3,764 to 12,380 pounds dry and 22 to 44 feet of exterior length across 21 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 Campsite Reserve line hub.

08 Common questions about the 19KR

How much does the 19KR weigh?

It leaves the factory at 4,993 pounds dry, and its manufacturer-set loaded ceiling (GVWR) is 7,725 pounds. Real towing weight lands between the two and depends entirely on what you load. Use the GVWR when matching a tow vehicle; the dry figure is only useful for comparing floorplans against each other.

How much can the 19KR carry?

Cargo carrying capacity is 2,732 pounds. That is the whole budget: water, propane, batteries, gear and everything you bring. Filling the 52-gallon fresh tank uses about 434 pounds of that.

What is the tongue weight of the 19KR?

The published dry tongue weight is 725 pounds. It is measured empty; loaded, it runs higher, and it comes out of your tow vehicle’s payload rather than its tow rating.

What size tow vehicle does the 19KR need?

Your vehicle needs a tow rating of at least 7,725 pounds — this floorplan’s GVWR — and enough payload left over for the hitch load, passengers and anything in the bed. This site does not publish tow ratings for specific vehicles, because one truck model varies by thousands of pounds across engine, axle ratio, cab and package. The figure that governs is the payload sticker on your own door jamb.

What are the tank capacities on the 19KR?

Fresh 52 gallons, grey 38 gallons, black 28 gallons. Tank sizes set how long the floorplan can sit away from hookups, and the smallest of the three is what ends the stay.

How long is the 19KR?

Exterior length is 26' 0". Measure against your site length and your storage before committing — the exterior figure is the one that has to fit, and it includes the tongue or pin box.

Every figure in these answers is read from this page’s verified specification table. Where the manufacturer publishes nothing, the question is not answered rather than estimated.

09 What this page publishes, and what it does not

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 11 of them for the 19KR. 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, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning. 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 (85%) 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.

11 NHTSA safety record

This floorplan belongs to the Campsite Reserve line, and NHTSA holds 3 recall campaigns and 1 owner complaint against that line. They are separate records and are not added together — a recall is a manufacturer-confirmed defect with a remedy; a complaint is one owner’s account, which NHTSA does not verify.

Too few reports to show a pattern. 1 complaint has been filed on this line — not enough to say what fails most often. It covers structure.

Recall coverage is not complete — our harvest of NHTSA’s recall API ran 1,556 queries, of which 0 failed and 242 returned an explicit zero. A line can still be under-reported where NHTSA files a roster under a parent name, or where a match rests on the wording of the recall rather than its model field. Complaints come from the complete bulk file but are unverified and self-selected: a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy. Full tables are on the Campsite Reserve line page.