2026 Forest River Cascade301BHC

The Cascade 301BHC has 1,932 lbs of cargo capacity between 8,063 lbs dry and its 9,995 lbs GVWR, 19% 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 960 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: 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 13th of 16 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,604 lbs to 11,327 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 8,063 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 9,029 lbs, and the published GVWR of 9,995 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. 301BHC is a Cascade designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 301BHC differs from the other fifteen Cascade floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Length, 37 ft 3 in: third-longest of sixteen, between the 29TEC (36 ft 6 in) and the 39TNC (40 ft 7 in).
• Dry weight, 8,063 lb: fourth-heaviest of sixteen, between the 29TEC (6,943 lb) and the 20OGC (8,349 lb).
• Tongue weight, 960 lb: fourth-heaviest of sixteen, between the 29TEC (885 lb) and the 20OGC (1,010 lb).
• Exterior height, 11 ft 1 in: fourth-tallest of sixteen, between the 23MSC, 26SSC and two others (10 ft 8 in) and the 39TNC (12 ft 9 in).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 19.3%: fifth-smallest of sixteen, between the 26KFC (17.2%) and the 26SSC (19.7%).
• Cargo capacity, 1,932 lb: sixth-largest of sixteen, between the 23MSC (1,827 lb) and the 39DLC (2,015 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.9%: sixth-smallest of sixteen, between the 39DLC (11.8%) and the 17MPHC and 20OGC (12.1%).
• GVWR, 9,995 lb: shared with the 29TEC; of sixteen, eleven lower and three higher, nearest the 26KFC (7,805 lb) and the 20OGC (11,210 lb).
• Fresh tank, 52 gal: largest of sixteen, level with the 23MSC, 26KFC and four others; next are the 20OGC, 39DLC and 39TNC (40 gal).
• Black tank, 38 gal: shared with the 23MSC, 26KFC 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 23MSC, 26KFC 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 29TEC, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 301BHC is 1,120 lb heavier by dry weight, has 1,120 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 75 lb heavier, is 9 in longer and stands 5 in taller; the two publish the same GVWR, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 20OGC, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 301BHC is 286 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,215 lb lower, has 929 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 50 lb lighter, is 1 ft 7 in longer, stands 2 ft 5 in lower, has a fresh tank 12 gal larger, has a grey tank 2 gal smaller and has a black tank 2 gal smaller.

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), 22% of the 301BHC’s 1,932 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,500 lb. Across 16 Cascade floorplans the water share runs 8% to 32%, and 5 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cascade 17THHC at 20% and Cascade 23MSC at 24%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).