2026 Forest River Cherokee Grey Wolf24RRT

The Cherokee Grey Wolf 24RRT leaves Forest River's factory at 6,169 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 7,938 lbs and 1,769 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 22% of the loaded rating, and Forest River's own definition is worth reading before you plan against it: cargo capacity is what remains for fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory. Fresh water alone is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling this trailer's 52-gallon fresh tank spends 432 lbs of that 1,769 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry tongue weight is 938 lbs, or 15% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits inside it as published. Tongue weight is not fixed: it moves with how the trailer is loaded, and weight added ahead of the axles raises it. A weight-distribution hitch is the normal fitment at this tongue load, and the tow vehicle's tongue-weight limit is a separate number from its trailer-weight limit.

Tank capacities are 52 gallons fresh, 38 grey and 38 black, 76 gallons of waste capacity against 52 gallons of supply. The ratio is what governs how long the trailer can sit off hookups: waste capacity exceeds fresh, so the fresh tank is the binding constraint and refilling extends the stay. Forest River publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Cherokee Grey Wolf roster this is the 23rd of 35 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 3,418 lbs to 7,356 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight. Comparing floorplans inside one line is more reliable than comparing across brands, because every figure here comes from the same factory channel on the same day.

A useful way to read the pair of weights is to stop planning against the dry figure. Nobody tows a trailer at 6,169 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity, which is modest for a family trip, and this plan is already near 7,053 lbs on the road. Compare that number against the tow vehicle, not the dry weight, and leave margin on top of it - the published GVWR of 7,938 lbs is a limit rather than a target.

Every number above was captured twice from Forest River and checked against itself before it was published. The line roster block and the individual floorplan page are two separate factory renderings of the same trailer, and this plan's 4 shared figures agree exactly on both. Dry weight plus cargo capacity also equals the published GVWR exactly, which is the arithmetic check this site runs on every profiled floorplan. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because Forest River does not publish it in this channel, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

Forest River's own description of this floorplan reads: “The Grey Wolf 24RRT by Forest River is a versatile and affordable travel trailer that offers a spacious open-concept design. The rear ramp provides easy access to the toy hauler garage area, which can be converted into a patio deck for outdoor living. The comfortable living area features ample seating and a collapsable table. The well-equipped kitchen, with its full-size pantry, 12-volt refrigerator, air fryer combo…” 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.

Ten Grey Wolf floorplans from the 2026 factory roster with no page on this site before now, and they are the specialist end of a 35-plan roster rather than more of the same: six toy haulers, three fish houses and one further travel trailer. They run 4,449 to 7,280 lb dry on lengths of 24 feet 1 inch to 36 feet 11 inches, with dry tongue weights of 495 to 1,274 lb. Forest River publishes a GVWR for all ten and dry weight plus cargo capacity equals it exactly on all ten.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 52-gallon fresh tank is roughly 25% of the 1,769-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 24RRT with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 938 pounds is 15% of the 6,169-pound dry weight — at or above the top of the usual 10–15% band before you load anything. A nose-heavy dry figure eats truck payload directly, so budget the hitch load against your door-jamb sticker rather than against the tow rating.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 7,938-pound GVWR the 24RRT is towing 1,769 pounds more than its 6,169-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 38 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 24RRT sits 24 of 29 in the Cherokee Grey Wolf line: 7,938 pounds against a line that runs from 5,595 to 9,995 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 25RRT is 38 pounds lighter at 7,900 lb GVWR; and Cherokee Grey Wolf 26DBH is 2 pounds heavier at 7,940 lb GVWR.

Against the 24RRT: the Jay Flight 284BHS is 12 lb heavier; the Jay Flight SLX 287BHS is 12 lb heavier and 1 ft longer; the Alpha Wolf 26DBH is 17 lb heavier. 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 4,449 to 7,356 pounds dry and 24 to 38 feet of exterior length across 29 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 11 of them for the 24RRT. 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, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning. 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 (85%) 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.