2026 Grey Wolf 26SS

The Cherokee Grey Wolf 26SS builds a couples' coach around a rear kitchen. The galley anchors the back of the trailer with a spacious pantry beside the refrigerator, an air-fryer microwave and generous overhead cabinets, while the booth dinette sits on the slide and a sofa faces an electric fireplace with hidden shelves behind it for storage. The front of the trailer is a private master bedroom with an RV king bed and a side wardrobe, and a walk-through bathroom — tub/shower, toilet and a vanity with counter space — connects the living area to the bedroom. An outside kitchen lets a couple cook out of doors as well.

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. A 52-gallon fresh tank and 38-gallon grey and black tanks support a couple's water use away from hookups.

At 5,987 pounds dry against a 7,764-pound GVWR it leaves roughly 1,777 pounds of cargo capacity, comfortable for two, and tows easily behind a half-ton truck. The factory record does not publish the refrigerator's cubic footage, so it is flagged; one dealer listing quotes a heavier as-built figure once option packages are added, but the factory base weight is used here. For couples who specifically want a rear cook's kitchen, a private king master and a fireplace lounge — a galley-focused layout rather than a rear lounge or rear bath — the 26SS is the Grey Wolf line's rear-kitchen couples' plan.

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 26SS 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 24% of the 1,777-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 26SS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 764 pounds is 13% of the 5,987-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 7,764-pound GVWR the 26SS is towing 1,777 pounds more than its 5,987-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 26SS sits 10 of 19 in the Cherokee Grey Wolf line: 7,764 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 27LH is 9 pounds lighter at 7,755 lb GVWR; and Cherokee Grey Wolf 23MK is 37 pounds heavier at 7,801 lb GVWR.

Against the 26SS: the Campsite Reserve 25MW is 1 lb heavier and 1 ft shorter; the Coachmen Catalina 231BHS is 2 lb lighter and 3 ft shorter and sleeps 4 more; the Ozark 2430RBK is 9 lb lighter and 5 ft shorter. 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 26SS. 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.