2026 Forest River Cascade23MSC

The Cascade 23MSC has 1,827 lbs of cargo capacity between 5,948 lbs dry and its 7,775 lbs GVWR, 23% 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 775 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: 76 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 Cascade roster this is the 8th of 16 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,604 lbs to 11,327 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 5,948 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 6,862 lbs, and the published GVWR of 7,775 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. 23MSC is a Cascade designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 23MSC 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%: second-largest of sixteen, between the 27LHC and 39TNC (12.8%) and the 17LPC (13.1%).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 23.5%: sixth-largest of sixteen, between the 17SCC (22.6%) and the 20OGC (25.5%).
• Cargo capacity, 1,827 lb: seventh-largest of sixteen, between the 27LHC (1,737 lb) and the 301BHC (1,932 lb).
• Dry weight, 5,948 lb: eighth-lightest of sixteen, between the 17THHC (5,167 lb) and the 27LHC (6,038 lb).
• Fresh tank, 52 gal: largest of sixteen, level with the 26KFC, 26LPC and four others; next are the 20OGC, 39DLC and 39TNC (40 gal).
• GVWR, 7,775 lb: shared with the 27LHC; of sixteen, eight lower and six higher, nearest the 26SSC (7,725 lb) and the 26KFC (7,805 lb).
• Tongue weight, 775 lb: shared with the 27LHC; of sixteen, eight lighter and six heavier, nearest the 26SSC (725 lb) and the 26KFC (805 lb).
• Length, 29 ft 2 in: shared with the 26LPC; of sixteen, six shorter and eight longer, nearest the 17MPHC and 17THHC (26 ft 8 in) and the 26SSC (30 ft 9 in).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 8 in: shared with the 26SSC, 27LHC and 29TEC; of sixteen, eight lower and four taller, nearest the 26LPC (10 ft 6 in) and the 301BHC (11 ft 1 in).
• Black tank, 38 gal: shared with the 26KFC, 26SSC and three others; of sixteen, seven smaller and three larger, nearest the 14BHLPC, 17LPC and three others (28 gal) and the 20OGC, 39DLC and 39TNC (40 gal).
• Grey tank, 38 gal: shared with the 26KFC, 26LPC and four others; of sixteen, six smaller and three larger, nearest the 14BHLPC, 17LPC and two others (28 gal) and the 20OGC, 39DLC and 39TNC (40 gal).

Next to the 17THHC, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 23MSC is 781 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 2,073 lb higher, has 1,292 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 173 lb heavier, is 2 ft 6 in longer, stands 4 in taller, has a fresh tank 39 gal larger, has a grey tank 26 gal larger and has a black tank 33.5 gal larger.

Next to the 27LHC, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 23MSC is 90 lb lighter by dry weight, has 90 lb more cargo capacity and is 4 ft shorter; the two publish the same GVWR, tongue weight, exterior height, 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 52-gallon fresh tank is about 432 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 24% of the 23MSC’s 1,827 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,395 lb. Across 16 Cascade floorplans the water share runs 8% to 32%, and 4 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cascade 301BHC at 22% and Cascade 27LHC at 25%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).