2027 Forest River Cedar Creek Cottage40CRS

The Cedar Creek Cottage 40CRS has 1,731 lbs of cargo capacity between 12,269 lbs dry and its 14,000 lbs GVWR, 12% 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 40CRS shows, at the front, a king bed with overhead cabinets, a dresser with a TV above, a wardrobe with shelves and washer/dryer prep. Mid-coach: a bath with a shower with seat and linen storage behind a sliding door, a closet and drawers, a kitchen island, a microwave and a fridge in a slide with a Murphy pantry, and power theater seating and a table with chairs in a second slide. At the rear: a hide-a-bed sofa across the rear and a swivel-mounted TV and fireplace. It draws a 18-foot awning. Outside it labels an LP quick connect. Layouts change with options; check the unit itself.

Tongue weight is 1,615 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: 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 1st of 6 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 12,269 lbs to 13,478 lbs. It is the lightest plan in the line, which makes it the one to look at first if the tow vehicle is the constraint.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 12,269 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 13,135 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's own description of this floorplan reads: “Our 40CRS floorplan features a roomy king bedroom with slide and loads of storage in the front of the unit. The closet is prepped and ready for washer and dryer. The large central bathroom includes a residential shower with built-in seat, skylight, and a linen closet. Designer lighting and shiplap accents throughout give this cottage a modern farmhouse feel.” That is the factory's marketing copy rather than a specification, and nothing in it is treated as a verified field on this page - layout descriptions, sleeping arrangements and feature claims in factory copy are not carried into the spec table unless the factory also publishes them as specifications.

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

• Dry weight, 12,269 lb: lightest of six; next is the 40CCK (12,474 lb).
• Length, 42 ft: longest of six; next are the 40CBK and 40CMK (41 ft 6 in).
• Cargo capacity, 1,731 lb: second-largest of six, between the 40CCK (1,526 lb) and the 40CBK (2,087 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 12.4%: second-largest of six, between the 40CCK (10.9%) and the 40CBK (13.4%).
• Tongue weight, 1,615 lb: third-lightest of six, between the 40CBK (1,565 lb) and the 40CMK (1,765 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 13.2%: third-smallest of six, between the 40CFL2B (11.9%) and the 40CMK (14.1%).

Next to the 40CCK, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 40CRS is 205 lb lighter by dry weight, has 205 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 195 lb lighter and is 1 ft 6 in longer; the two publish the same GVWR, exterior height, 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), 36% of the 40CRS’s 1,731 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,108 lb. Across 6 Cedar Creek Cottage floorplans the water share runs 30% to 57%, and 4 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cedar Creek Cottage 40CBK at 30% and Cedar Creek Cottage 40CCK at 41%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).