2026 Forest River Puma Camping Edition18BHCE

The Puma Camping Edition 18BHCE has 1,456 lbs of cargo capacity between 4,159 lbs dry and its 5,615 lbs GVWR, 26% of that rating; filling its 34-gallon fresh tank at 8.3 lb a gallon uses 282 lbs of it (how to read trailer weights).

Tongue weight is 515 lbs, 12% of the dry weight as published; it rises as the trailer is loaded and counts against the tow vehicle’s tongue-weight and payload limits (tongue weight by size).

Off hookups: 60 gallons of grey and black capacity against 34 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Puma Camping Edition roster this is the 15th of 30 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,295 lbs to 7,018 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 4,159 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 4,887 lbs, and the published GVWR of 5,615 lbs is the limit (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly. A missing row means Forest River does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

Forest River publishes no floorplan description for this plan in the channel this page is built from - only the numeric specification block. Rather than describe a layout from the floorplan code, which would be a guess dressed as a fact, this page carries what the factory publishes and says where it stops. 18BHCE is a Puma Camping Edition designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 18BHCE differs from the other 29 Puma Camping Edition floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2026). How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity, 1,456 lb: twelfth-smallest of 30, between the 130BHCE (1,450 lb) and the 131RBCE (1,475 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 25.9%: twelfth-largest of 27, between the 12FBCE and 210RKCE (25.6%) and the 20BHCE (26.2%).
• Dry weight, 4,159 lb: fifteenth-lightest of 30, between the 16DSCE (3,629 lb) and the 20RLCE (4,188 lb).
• GVWR, 5,615 lb: fifteenth-lowest of 30, between the 16DSCE (5,130 lb) and the 20RLCE (5,688 lb).
• Length, 23 ft 1 in: fifteenth-shortest of 30, between the 16DSCE (22 ft) and the 20RLCE (24 ft 8 in).
• Black tank, 30 gal: smallest of 30, level with the 120RKCE, 121RKCE and eleven others; next are the 141THCE, 20BHCE and fourteen others (35 gal).
• Tongue weight, 515 lb: shared with the 260BHCE; of 30, fifteen lighter and thirteen heavier, nearest the 20BHCE (495 lb) and the 20RLCE (565 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.4%: shared with the 12FBCE and 300BHCE; of 30, twelve smaller and fifteen larger, nearest the 305BHCE (12.3%) and the 17COUPLE (12.5%).
• Fresh tank, 34 gal: smallest of 30, level with the 120RKCE, 121RKCE and twelve others; next are the 20BHCE, 20RLCE and thirteen others (43 gal).
• Grey tank, 30 gal: smallest of 30, level with the 120RKCE, 121RKCE and twelve others; next are the 20BHCE, 20RLCE and five others (35 gal).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 5 in: shared with the 121RKCE, 122BHCE and six others; of 30, eight lower and thirteen taller, nearest the 210RKCE (10 ft 4 in) and the 260BHCE (10 ft 6 in).

Next to the 16DSCE, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 18BHCE is 530 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 485 lb higher, has 45 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 75 lb heavier and is 1 ft 1 in longer; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 20RLCE, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 18BHCE is 29 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 73 lb lower, has 44 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 50 lb lighter, is 1 ft 7 in shorter, has a fresh tank 9 gal smaller, has a grey tank 5 gal smaller and has a black tank 5 gal smaller; the two publish the same exterior height.

Camping Edition is where Puma starts, and the range is wide enough that the badge on the side tells you very little on its own. The lightest plans here are single-axle trailers under 2,700 lbs dry; the heaviest are past 7,000 lbs dry. Cargo capacity runs 671 to 1,592 lbs and does not track length in the way buyers expect, so the plan that fits the family may not be the plan that carries their gear. Forest River publishes a GVWR for every plan in this class, which is the number to tow against.

A full 34-gallon fresh tank is about 282 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 19% of the 18BHCE’s 1,456 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,174 lb. Across 30 Puma Camping Edition floorplans the water share runs 19% to 42%, and 26 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Puma Camping Edition 131RBCE at 19% and Puma Camping Edition 130BHCE at 19%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).