2026 Forest River Cascade17SCC

The Cascade 17SCC has 1,251 lbs of cargo capacity between 4,289 lbs dry and its 5,540 lbs GVWR, 23% 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 440 lbs, 10% 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 3rd 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 4,289 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 4,915 lbs, and the published GVWR of 5,540 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. 17SCC is a Cascade designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

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

• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 10.3%: smallest of sixteen; next is the 18PBC (10.7%).
• Dry weight, 4,289 lb: third-lightest of sixteen, between the 17LPC (3,129 lb) and the 18PBC (4,459 lb).
• GVWR, 5,540 lb: third-lowest of sixteen, between the 17LPC (3,910 lb) and the 18PBC (5,575 lb).
• Tongue weight, 440 lb: third-lightest of sixteen, between the 17LPC (410 lb) and the 18PBC (475 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,251 lb: sixth-smallest of sixteen, between the 14BHLPC (1,216 lb) and the 26KFC (1,342 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 22.6%: seventh-largest of sixteen, between the 27LHC (22.3%) and the 23MSC (23.5%).
• Length, 23 ft 11 in: shared with the 18PBC; of sixteen, two shorter and twelve longer, nearest the 17LPC (22 ft 1 in) and the 17MPHC and 17THHC (26 ft 8 in).
• Fresh tank, 26 gal: shared with the 14BHLPC, 17LPC 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, 17LPC 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).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 5 in: shared with the 26KFC; of sixteen, five lower and nine taller, nearest the 17MPHC, 17THHC and 18PBC (10 ft 4 in) and the 26LPC (10 ft 6 in).
• Black tank, 28 gal: shared with the 14BHLPC, 17LPC 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).

Next to the 17LPC, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 17SCC is 1,160 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,630 lb higher, has 470 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 30 lb heavier, is 1 ft 10 in longer and stands 4 in taller; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 18PBC, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 17SCC is 170 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 35 lb lower, has 135 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 35 lb lighter and stands 1 in taller; the two publish the same length, 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), 17% of the 17SCC’s 1,251 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,035 lb. Across 16 Cascade floorplans the water share runs 8% to 32%, and 9 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cascade 39DLC at 16% and Cascade 14BHLPC at 18%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).