2027 Forest River Cedar Creek380DB

The 380DB is the family Cedar Creek. A loft and a double bunk give it the most sleeping capacity in the line — up to ten — and a dual-entry layout with two full baths keeps a full household moving, a rare configuration in a luxury fifth wheel. A central kitchen, a main-room lounge and a private front bedroom with a king bed complete a plan built around children and guests. The full Cedar Creek build carries through across four slide-outs: the 101-inch widebody Z-frame, 3M-bonded fiberglass sidewalls and the Rhino Box hitch.

Packing that much family layout into the coach uses up the payload. Forest River lists a published 16,815-pound GVWR against the 15,024-pound dry weight, leaving a 1,791-pound payload — the tightest in the line — and a 2,815-pound dry pin. An 82-gallon black tank serves the two baths. Dual Coleman MACH 8 15,000-BTU air conditioners, a 20-cubic-foot stainless refrigerator and a 200-watt solar package are standard; with the tightest payload of any plan, careful loading and a weight-conscious approach to water and gear matter most here.

At a starting MSRP around $133,000 it is the line’s dedicated bunk coach, and dealers discount it well below the placard. For a family that needs ten berths, two full baths and dual entries in a luxury fifth wheel — and that loads carefully against the tight payload — the 380DB is the family Cedar Creek.

Cedar Creek is Forest River's flagship full-size luxury fifth wheel and the first Forest River fifth wheel in this catalog — a direct rival to Keystone's Montana and Grand Design's Solitude. The 2027 fifth-wheel line runs to eight floorplans, and all eight are profiled here in full. The 380DB on this page is highlighted; each other plan links to its own page.

Fresh water is the single biggest line in this floorplan’s load plan. A full 75-gallon tank is about 35% of the 1,791-pound cargo capacity — enough that whether you tow with water aboard is a real decision on the 380DB rather than a detail.

The published dry pin weight of 2,815 pounds is 19% of this floorplan’s 15,024-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 16,815-pound GVWR the 380DB is towing 1,791 pounds more than its 15,024-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 75 gallons of fresh against 82 grey and 82 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 380DB sits 3 of 8 in the Cedar Creek line: 16,815 pounds against a line that runs from 16,095 to 18,000 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Cedar Creek 361RL is 190 pounds lighter at 16,625 lb GVWR; and Cedar Creek 390RKB is 45 pounds heavier at 16,860 lb GVWR.

Against the 380DB: the Influence 3203GK is 15 lb lighter and 8 ft shorter and sleeps 7 fewer; the Nightfall 350N is 25 lb lighter and 3 ft shorter; the Columbus 379MBL is 30 lb lighter. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest fifth wheels from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Cedar Creek floorplans profiled here run 12,254 to 15,429 pounds dry and 35 to 43 feet of exterior length across 8 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Cedar Creek line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 18 of them for the 380DB. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: tire size (a tire description is published, a size is not). If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (98%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.