2026 Forest River Campsite Reserve23JW

The Campsite Reserve 23JW has 1,832 lbs of cargo capacity between 5,818 lbs dry and its 7,650 lbs GVWR, 24% of that rating; filling its 52-gallon fresh tank at 8.3 lb a gallon uses 432 lbs of it (how to read trailer weights).

Tongue weight is 650 lbs, 11% of the dry weight as published; it rises as the trailer is loaded and counts against the tow vehicle’s tongue-weight and payload limits (tongue weight by size).

Off hookups: 66 gallons of grey and black capacity against 52 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Campsite Reserve roster this is the 10th of 22 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 3,764 lbs to 12,380 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 5,818 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 6,734 lbs, and the published GVWR of 7,650 lbs is the limit (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly. A missing row means Forest River does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

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. 23JW is a Campsite Reserve designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 23JW differs from the other 21 Campsite Reserve floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.2%: fifth-smallest of 22, between the 18LM (11%) and the 39JD (11.3%).
• GVWR, 7,650 lb: seventh-lowest of 22, between the 25CY (7,630 lb) and the 26CJ (7,674 lb).
• Tongue weight, 650 lb: seventh-lightest of 22, between the 25CY (630 lb) and the 26CJ (674 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,832 lb: ninth-smallest of 22, between the 39LA (1,806 lb) and the 23TS and 32GT (2,402 lb).
• Dry weight, 5,818 lb: tenth-lightest of 22, between the 23TS (5,393 lb) and the 25MW (6,008 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 23.9%: tenth-smallest of 21, between the 17LS (23.5%) and the 32GT (24%).
• Length, 29 ft 7 in: tenth-shortest of 22, between the 25CY (29 ft 2 in) and the 25MW (29 ft 8 in).
• Black tank, 28 gal: smallest of 22, level with the 16BC, 17LS and seven others; next are the 20LJ, 26CJ and five others (38 gal).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 8 in: shared with the 20AJ, 25CY and three others; of 22, five lower and eleven taller, nearest the 29TJ (10 ft 7 in) and the 18LM (10 ft 9 in).

Next to the 23TS, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 23JW is 425 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 155 lb lower, has 570 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 155 lb lighter, is 1 ft 7 in longer and stands 2 in lower; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 25MW, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 23JW is 190 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 115 lb lower, has 75 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 115 lb lighter, is 1 in shorter and stands 2 in taller; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

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. 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 published on its own page with that disagreement stated rather than profiled with the rest.

A full 52-gallon fresh tank is about 432 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 24% of the 23JW’s 1,832 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,400 lb. Across 22 Campsite Reserve floorplans the water share runs 8% to 34%, and 4 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Campsite Reserve 18LM at 20% and Campsite Reserve 25MW at 25%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).