2026 Grey Wolf 29TE

The Cherokee Grey Wolf 29TE is the big-family flagship of the line — a 37-foot bunkhouse built around a serious outdoor-living setup. A rear bunkhouse sleeps the kids, a private front bedroom anchors the other end, dual entry doors give outdoor access to the bathroom, and the exterior kitchen is a genuine outdoor galley with a side-by-side refrigerator/freezer, an ice maker, a cooktop, a sink and storage. It is designed for families who do most of their cooking and living outside the trailer.

It carries the Grey Wolf build — a wood-frame body with aluminum sidewall construction and the Cherokee Stable Step, with the Black Label trim adding Thermo-Foil Arctic insulation, gel-coat sidewalls and frameless tinted windows. A 13,500-BTU air conditioner is standard and a solar package is available. Despite the length and family focus it stays relatively light at 6,428 pounds dry.

Against a 7,837-pound GVWR that leaves about 1,410 pounds of payload, which a large family fills quickly once water, gear and the loaded outside kitchen are aboard, so it rewards deliberate packing and a well-equipped half-ton or three-quarter-ton truck and a full-size site. RVUSA does not publish the refrigerator's cubic footage, so it is flagged. For large families who want maximum beds and a true outdoor kitchen at a value-tier price, the 29TE is the Grey Wolf line's family flagship.

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 29TE 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 40-gallon fresh tank is roughly 24% of the 1,409-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 29TE with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 837 pounds is 13% of the 6,428-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 7,837-pound GVWR the 29TE is towing 1,409 pounds more than its 6,428-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 40 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 29TE sits 19 of 29 in the Cherokee Grey Wolf line: 7,837 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 26LK is 22 pounds lighter at 7,815 lb GVWR; and Cherokee Grey Wolf 22RR is 33 pounds heavier at 7,870 lb GVWR.

Against the 29TE: the IBEX 25RBH is 1 lb heavier and 4 ft shorter; the Airelume 265 is 7 lb lighter and 5 ft shorter; the Salem & Wildwood 23ZEN is 7 lb lighter and 6 ft shorter and sleeps 4 fewer. 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.

Named sources publish 15 of the 18 specification fields this catalogue tracks for the 29TE (90% complete on the full field set).

Not published for this floorplan: interior height, axle count, tire specification. Those rows are left blank rather than copied from a sibling floorplan.

Values marked with an asterisk are arithmetic on published figures or come from a single source; the flag travels into the downloadable spec sheet.

Sourcing rules: methodology.