2026 Grey Wolf 22MKSE

The Cherokee Grey Wolf 22MKSE is one of the lightest family bunkhouses in the line. Forest River describes the front bed as an innovative Cherokee Sleep System that transforms from a sofa into a queen-size bed, a rear bunkhouse stacks the kids or guests, and a booth dinette in the main room doubles as dining and sleeping for one or two more — so the practical count runs from six to eight depending on the build. A full bathroom with a hybrid tub and shower surround handles a family's needs, and a full kitchen with an included air fryer rounds out a layout that stays under 4,900 pounds dry in just over 26 feet.

Grey Wolf builds it on a wood-frame body with aluminum sidewall construction, riding on the Cherokee Stable Step, with the widely stocked Black Label trim adding Thermo-Foil Arctic insulation, high-gloss gel-coat sidewalls and frameless tinted automotive glass. Standard equipment includes a 15,000-BTU air conditioner, a 12-volt refrigerator, an air-fryer convection microwave, a tankless water heater and a 15-foot power awning, with a 200-watt solar package available for off-hookup nights. A 52-gallon fresh tank supports family-size water use away from hookups.

At 4,869 pounds dry against a 7,675-pound GVWR it leaves roughly 2,806 pounds of cargo capacity — unusually generous, and a genuine benefit for a family loading water, gear and toys — and its low weight makes it towable by many SUVs as well as any half-ton truck. The factory record does not publish the refrigerator's cubic footage, so it is flagged. For a family that wants real bunks and a convertible queen in the lightest, most affordable bunkhouse the Grey Wolf line offers, the 22MKSE is the compact-bunkhouse value.

The Cherokee Grey Wolf is Forest River's highest-volume value-mid travel trailer — the company calls it the number-one-selling RV in its lineup. It spans roughly twenty travel-trailer floorplans for 2026 plus toy-hauler and fish-house variants. The 22MKSE on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page. The highest-demand layouts are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the line hub.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 52-gallon fresh tank is roughly 15% of the 2,806-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 22MKSE with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 675 pounds is 14% of the 4,869-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 7,675-pound GVWR the 22MKSE is towing 2,806 pounds more than its 4,869-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 52 gallons of fresh against 38 grey and 28 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 22MKSE sits 6 of 19 in the Cherokee Grey Wolf line: 7,675 pounds against a line that runs from 7,575 to 8,083 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: Cherokee Grey Wolf 26DJSE is 36 pounds lighter at 7,639 lb GVWR; and Cherokee Grey Wolf 23DBH is 37 pounds heavier at 7,712 lb GVWR.

Against the 22MKSE: the Salem & Wildwood 28ICE is 7 ft longer; the Campsite Reserve 26CJ is 1 lb lighter and 6 ft longer; the Campsite Ultra 26CJL is 1 lb lighter and 6 ft longer. 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 travel trailers 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 Cherokee Grey Wolf floorplans profiled here run 4,508 to 7,356 pounds dry and 24 to 38 feet of exterior length across 19 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 Cherokee Grey Wolf line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 15 of them for the 22MKSE. 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: interior height, axle count, tire specification. 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 (97%) 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.

Values on this page carrying an asterisk were derived by arithmetic from published figures, or come from a single source, rather than being printed directly by the manufacturer. The flag travels with the number into the downloadable spec sheet.

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