2026 PalominoPuma Grand Mesa 394RKL

Forest River publishes a 18,575-pound GVWR for the Puma Grand Mesa 394RKL against a 15,114-pound unloaded weight, and the 3,461 pounds of cargo carrying capacity that leaves is the largest on the 3-plan fifth wheel roster. Dry weight plus CCC equals the published GVWR exactly, so the three figures are internally consistent rather than rounded against each other. The dry pin weight is 2,575 pounds before anything is loaded.

The 394RKL measures 42' 7" long, 13' 5" tall and 101" wide, and carries a 75 / 78 / 39-gallon fresh, grey and black tank set with a 19' & 19' awning. Height is the number to check first on a trailer this size — measure garage doors, carports and low branches against the published 13' 5" before the first trip. Against its neighbours on the roster, the shorter 393RL runs 270 pounds lighter dry and the longer 395FKL runs 185 pounds lighter dry.

Equipment for this plan is published as 2 named packages on its factory floorplan record — the “River Package (mandatory)” and the “Ranch Package (mandatory)”, listing 34 items and 27 items respectively. The first package opens with 6 Point Hydraulic Leveling System, 8000 LB Axles, 2-Tone Aluminum Wheels and H Rated Tires w/J Rated Spare. Package inclusion on any given unit is not asserted here and Forest River publishes no MSRP for this tier, so confirm delivered equipment and current pricing with a dealer.

Puma Grand Mesa is the fifth wheel tier of Palomino’s Puma family — 3 floorplans filed by the factory under “Fifth Wheels”, sold under the parent Puma line and rostered on the Puma hub’s Puma Grand Mesa section. Per this site’s family policy a factory sub-roster lives under its parent hub rather than taking a hub of its own.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 75-gallon fresh tank is roughly 18% of the 3,461-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Puma Grand Mesa 394RKL with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 2,575 pounds is 17% of this floorplan’s 15,114-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 18,575-pound GVWR the Puma Grand Mesa 394RKL is towing 3,461 pounds more than its 15,114-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 75 gallons of fresh against 78 grey and 39 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 33 Puma floorplans profiled here, the Puma Grand Mesa 394RKL carries the highest GVWR at 18,575 pounds. It is the top of the line by weight, which makes tow-vehicle capability the first thing to settle rather than the last.

Either side of it in the same line: Puma Grand Mesa 395FKL is 575 pounds lighter at 18,000 lb GVWR.

Against the Puma Grand Mesa 394RKL: the Pinnacle 38SSWS is 125 lb heavier; the North Point 395DSDB is 225 lb heavier and 2 ft longer; the Bighorn 40DB is 275 lb heavier and 1 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 fifth wheels 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 Puma floorplans profiled here run 6,173 to 15,114 pounds dry and 30 to 43 feet of exterior length across 33 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 Puma line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 11 of them for the Puma Grand Mesa 394RKL. 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, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning. 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 (82%) 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.