2027 Forest River Cedar Creek Cottage40CDL

The Cedar Creek Cottage 40CDL has 1,246 lbs of cargo capacity between 12,754 lbs dry and its 14,000 lbs GVWR, 9% of that rating; filling its 75-gallon fresh tank at 8.3 lb a gallon uses 622 lbs of it (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s 2027 floorplan drawing for the 40CDL shows, at the front, a front living room with a hide-a-bed sofa, a swivel-mounted TV and fireplace and a Murphy pantry. Mid-coach: a kitchen slide with a fridge and a microwave, a kitchen island, power theater seating and a table with chairs in a slide, a closet and drawers, and a bath with a shower with seat and linen storage behind a sliding door. At the rear: a king bed in a slide with a dresser and TV, a wardrobe and washer/dryer prep, under a loft with three bunk mats and a wardrobe. It draws a 18-foot awning. Outside it labels an LP quick connect. Layouts change with options; check the unit itself.

Tongue weight is 1,825 lbs, 14% 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: 123 gallons of grey and black capacity against 75 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Cedar Creek Cottage roster this is the 4th of 6 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 12,269 lbs to 13,478 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 12,754 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 13,377 lbs, and the published GVWR of 14,000 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 written floorplan description for this plan; the layout described above is read off Forest River’s own floorplan drawing for this model year. 40CDL is a Cedar Creek Cottage designation, and this site does not decode the code itself into a layout claim.

How the 40CDL differs from the other five Cedar Creek Cottage floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Tongue weight, 1,825 lb: heaviest of six; next is the 40CCK (1,810 lb).
• Exterior height, 12 ft 10 in: lowest of six; next are the 40CBK, 40CCK and three others (13 ft 5 in).
• Cargo capacity, 1,246 lb: second-smallest of six, between the 40CFL2B (1,096 lb) and the 40CMK (1,481 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 8.9%: second-smallest of six, between the 40CFL2B (7.8%) and the 40CMK (10.6%).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 14.3%: second-largest of six, between the 40CMK (14.1%) and the 40CCK (14.5%).
• Dry weight, 12,754 lb: third-heaviest of six, between the 40CMK (12,519 lb) and the 40CFL2B (12,904 lb).
• Length, 40 ft 6 in: shortest of six, level with the 40CCK; next is the 40CFL2B (41 ft 3 in).

Next to the 40CMK, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 40CDL is 235 lb heavier by dry weight, has 235 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 60 lb heavier, is 1 ft shorter and stands 7 in lower; the two publish the same GVWR, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 40CFL2B, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 40CDL is 150 lb lighter by dry weight, has 150 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 295 lb heavier, is 9 in shorter and stands 7 in lower; the two publish the same GVWR, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Cedar Creek Cottage is a destination trailer, which is a different proposition from a travel trailer of the same size: it is towed to a site and left there, and the numbers show it. Six floorplans run 12,269 to 13,478 lb dry at 40 to 42 feet, on hitch weights of only 1,530 to 1,825 lb - far lighter at the hitch than a fifth wheel of the same mass. Cargo capacity runs 1,096 to 2,087 lb, and every plan ties out exactly against its published GVWR.

A full 75-gallon fresh tank is about 622 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 50% of the 40CDL’s 1,246 lb cargo capacity, leaving 624 lb. Across 6 Cedar Creek Cottage floorplans the water share runs 30% to 57%, and 1 gives up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cedar Creek Cottage 40CMK at 42% and Cedar Creek Cottage 40CFL2B at 57%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).