2026 Palomino Puma32BHFS

The 32BHFS is the biggest Puma on this list. The Forest River factory describes the floorplan as one entry and four slide outs, with a metal exterior and a 21-foot awning, and an interior of bunk beds, a kitchen island and a front bedroom — sleeping up to eleven in about 39 feet. Four slides is the most on the roster, and an island galley alongside a bunk room is a combination the value bracket rarely offers: the slides buy the floor width that makes an island possible without choking the walkway. It carries the standard Puma build: a powder-coated steel I-beam frame with steel crossmembers under .024/.030-gauge aluminum skin, an AlphaPly roof membrane under a limited lifetime warranty, R-7 fiberglass insulation cut and glued between sidewall studs on 16-inch centres, a 5/8-inch Araucoply plywood floor under a 25-year limited warranty, an enclosed Darco-wrapped underbelly with enclosed water tanks, a tankless water heater and an 11 cu ft 12-volt refrigerator. Solar is roof and side-mount prep only — no panel is installed from the factory.

Palomino publishes an 11,308-pound GVWR against the 9,608-pound dry weight, leaving a 1,700-pound cargo capacity and a 1,175-pound dry tongue — the heaviest plan of the eight profiled on every count, and comfortably beyond what a half-ton should be asked to do. The tank set is 43/70/35 gallons fresh/grey/black. Note that it carries a single entry despite eleven berths and four slides, where the 32BHQS in the same length gets a second door and a half bath. Palomino and Forest River publish no MSRP for the Puma line, so confirm street pricing with a dealer. The 32BHFS wants a three-quarter-ton truck and an honest look at the cargo maths.

Forest River lists all four Puma packages as required, but the Value Shopper Package specifies a 13,500 BTU ducted air conditioner and the Limited Edition Package specifies a 15,000 BTU unit in place of it — the two required packages contradict each other, so confirm the air conditioner on the actual unit.

Puma is Palomino's metal-sided value travel trailer — bumper-pull towables on a powder-coated steel I-beam frame, and a cross-shop against Forest River's own Salem / Wildwood and Aurora, Prime Time's Avenger, Keystone's Springdale and Jayco's Jay Flight SLX. Eight floorplans are profiled in full and linked below; the remaining plans are catalogued and shown muted. The 32BHFS on this page is highlighted.

A full 43-gallon fresh tank is about 359 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 21% of the 32BHFS’s 1,700 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,341 lb (122 lb per rated berth). Across 24 Puma travel-trailer floorplans the water share runs 11% to 28%, and 7 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Puma 32BHQS at 21% and Puma 31RLQS at 21%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).

Closest sibling: the Puma 32BHQS, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 5 of the 9 fields both publish (this plan first): dry weight 9,608 lb vs 9,072 lb; GVWR 11,308 lb vs 10,800 lb; cargo capacity 1,700 lb vs 1,728 lb; dry hitch weight 1,175 lb vs 1,045 lb; black tank 35 gal vs 65 gal. They match on length, sleeps, fresh tank and grey tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Puma Ambush 29TH is 313 lb lighter (10,995 lb GVWR); Puma Vista 37PFL is 441 lb heavier (11,749 lb GVWR).

All 33 Puma floorplans: Puma line hub.

Against the 32BHFS: the Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label 304SRBL is 6 lb heavier; the Wolf Pack 26-13.5 is 7 lb heavier and 7 ft shorter; the Eagle 312BHOK is 8 lb lighter and 5 ft shorter.

16 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 32BHFS. Not published: interior height, tire specification.

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.