2026 Grey Wolf 27GH

The Cherokee Grey Wolf 27GH flips the usual layout: the kitchen moves to the front and a private bedroom goes to the rear. A large front window sits over a galley with ample counter space, a full pantry and a U-shaped dinette, and the open living area carries a convertible sofa for extra sleeping plus a hidden pantry for storage. The rear is a private bedroom with a king-size bed and a second entry/exit door, giving the back of the trailer the feel of a real master suite rather than an open front bed. An outside kitchen and a rear storage rack extend the living and gear space out of doors.

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 with 38-gallon grey and black tanks supports a couple's water use away from hookups.

At 6,386 pounds dry against a 7,814-pound GVWR the factory base leaves roughly 1,428 pounds of cargo capacity, comfortable for two, and tows behind a half-ton truck. The factory record does not publish the refrigerator's cubic footage, so it is flagged; a dealer listing quotes a heavier as-built figure once option packages are added, but the factory base weight is used here. For couples who want a residential front kitchen with a big front window and a genuinely private rear bedroom — a reversed layout that trades an open front bed for a real back suite — the 27GH is the Grey Wolf line's front-kitchen couples' coach.

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 27GH 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.

Fresh water is the single biggest line in this floorplan’s load plan. A full 52-gallon tank is about 30% of the 1,428-pound cargo capacity — enough that whether you tow with water aboard is a real decision on the 27GH rather than a detail.

The published dry tongue weight of 814 pounds is 13% of the 6,386-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 7,814-pound GVWR the 27GH is towing 1,428 pounds more than its 6,386-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 27GH sits 12 of 19 in the Cherokee Grey Wolf line: 7,814 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 23MK is 13 pounds lighter at 7,801 lb GVWR; and Cherokee Grey Wolf 26LK is 1 pounds heavier at 7,815 lb GVWR.

Against the 27GH: the Campsite Ultra 26TH is 6 lb heavier; the Avenger 26DBS is 9 lb lighter and sleeps 4 more; the Cascade 26KFC is 9 lb lighter and 2 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 27GH. 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.