2026 Forest River Cascade17LPC

The Cascade 17LPC has 781 lbs of cargo capacity between 3,129 lbs dry and its 3,910 lbs GVWR, 20% 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 410 lbs, 13% 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 2nd of 16 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,604 lbs to 11,327 lbs. It sits in the lighter third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 3,129 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 3,519 lbs, and the published GVWR of 3,910 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. 17LPC is a Cascade designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 17LPC differs from the other fifteen Cascade floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 13.1%: largest of sixteen; next is the 23MSC (13%).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 1 in: lowest of sixteen; next is the 14BHLPC (10 ft 2 in).
• Dry weight, 3,129 lb: second-lightest of sixteen, between the 14BHLPC (2,604 lb) and the 17SCC (4,289 lb).
• GVWR, 3,910 lb: second-lowest of sixteen, between the 14BHLPC (3,820 lb) and the 17SCC (5,540 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 781 lb: second-smallest of sixteen, between the 17THHC (535 lb) and the 17MPHC (811 lb).
• Tongue weight, 410 lb: second-lightest of sixteen, between the 14BHLPC (320 lb) and the 17SCC (440 lb).
• Length, 22 ft 1 in: second-shortest of sixteen, between the 14BHLPC (17 ft 3 in) and the 17SCC and 18PBC (23 ft 11 in).
• Fresh tank, 26 gal: shared with the 14BHLPC, 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 14BHLPC, 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 14BHLPC, 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).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 20%: shared with the 18PBC; of sixteen, six smaller and eight larger, nearest the 26SSC (19.7%) and the 27LHC (22.3%).

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

Next to the 17SCC, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 17LPC is 1,160 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,630 lb lower, has 470 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 30 lb lighter, is 1 ft 10 in shorter and stands 4 in lower; 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), 28% of the 17LPC’s 781 lb cargo capacity, leaving 565 lb. Across 16 Cascade floorplans the water share runs 8% to 32%, and 2 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cascade 27LHC at 25% and Cascade 26SSC at 28%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).