2026 Forest River Cascade14BHLPC

The Cascade 14BHLPC has 1,216 lbs of cargo capacity between 2,604 lbs dry and its 3,820 lbs GVWR, 32% of that rating; filling its 26-gallon fresh tank at 8.3 lb a gallon uses 216 lbs of it (how to read trailer weights).

Tongue weight is 320 lbs, 12% 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: 56 gallons of grey and black capacity against 26 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Cascade roster this is the 1st of 16 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,604 lbs to 11,327 lbs. It is the lightest plan in the line, which makes it the one to look at first if the tow vehicle is the constraint.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 2,604 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 3,212 lbs, and the published GVWR of 3,820 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. 14BHLPC is a Cascade designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 14BHLPC differs from the other fifteen Cascade floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 2,604 lb: lightest of sixteen; next is the 17LPC (3,129 lb).
• GVWR, 3,820 lb: lowest of sixteen; next is the 17LPC (3,910 lb).
• Tongue weight, 320 lb: lightest of sixteen; next is the 17LPC (410 lb).
• Length, 17 ft 3 in: shortest of sixteen; next is the 17LPC (22 ft 1 in).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 2 in: second-lowest of sixteen, between the 17LPC (10 ft 1 in) and the 17MPHC, 17THHC and 18PBC (10 ft 4 in).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 31.8%: third-largest of sixteen, between the 29TEC (30.5%) and the 39TNC (32.4%).
• Cargo capacity, 1,216 lb: fifth-smallest of sixteen, between the 18PBC (1,116 lb) and the 17SCC (1,251 lb).
• Fresh tank, 26 gal: shared with the 17LPC, 17SCC and 18PBC; of sixteen, two smaller and ten larger, nearest the 17THHC (13 gal) and the 20OGC, 39DLC and 39TNC (40 gal).
• Grey tank, 28 gal: shared with the 17LPC, 17SCC and 18PBC; of sixteen, two smaller and ten larger, nearest the 17MPHC and 17THHC (12 gal) and the 23MSC, 26KFC and five others (38 gal).
• Black tank, 28 gal: shared with the 17LPC, 17SCC and two others; of sixteen, two smaller and nine larger, nearest the 17THHC (4.5 gal) and the 23MSC, 26KFC and four others (38 gal).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.3%: shared with the 26LPC; of sixteen, eight smaller and six larger, nearest the 17MPHC and 20OGC (12.1%) and the 26KFC (12.5%).

Next to the 17LPC, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 14BHLPC is 525 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 90 lb lower, has 435 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 90 lb lighter, is 4 ft 10 in shorter and stands 1 in taller; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Cascade covers a wider span than any other Forest River travel-trailer line this site has catalogued: thirty-three published floorplans in five factory groupings - single axle, tandem axle, tandem-axle toy hauler, fish house and destination - running from 2,604 lb dry at 17 feet 3 inches to 11,327 lb at 42 feet 8 inches. Tongue weight runs 320 to 1,342 lb over that span. The grouping a plan belongs to predicts its class far better than its floorplan number does, so both are in the table below.

A full 26-gallon fresh tank is about 216 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 18% of the 14BHLPC’s 1,216 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,000 lb. Across 16 Cascade floorplans the water share runs 8% to 32%, and 8 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cascade 17SCC at 17% and Cascade 18PBC at 19%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).