Forest RiverRockwood & Flagstaff

01 What Rockwood & Flagstaff are

02 Floorplans profiled in depth

Dry weights, lengths and capacities are verified against two named sources and the table says which applies to each row: the eight MY2026 plans come from RVUSA structured spec records, and the 22 MY2027 plans come from Forest River's own factory channel (email.forestriverinc.com roster block plus per-plan detail pages). Forest River publishes no GVWR, sleeping capacity or MSRP for any Rockwood plan in that channel, so those cells read Not published rather than carrying a figure borrowed from the other model year. The ten Signature 5W rows are the Rockwood Signature fifth-wheel roster, the only Rockwood grouping built on a pin box rather than a bumper hitch; their dry pin weights run 1,280 to 2,205 lb and are published on each plan page. An eleventh Signature fifth-wheel floorplan, 301SRK, is catalogued and deliberately not profiled: Forest River publishes its cargo capacity as 7,523 lb, the same figure to the pound as that plan's own published dry weight, against 13.5 to 20.9 percent of dry weight everywhere else in the roster. This site publishes that conflict rather than resolving it. The twin cross-reference in section 03 covers the travel-trailer lines; no Flagstaff fifth-wheel roster was harvested for this channel, so none is paired here. Starting MSRP is a representative dealer-typical figure and is flagged (*) — Forest River publishes no single fixed MSRP, dealer-quoted prices for the same plan vary widely, and selling prices typically run several thousand dollars below MSRP. Options and packages affect final weights — always confirm against the unit's own weight sticker. Every plan on this site whose published figures disagree is listed together at published figures that disagree.

03 The twin cross-reference

MY2027 cross-reference note: Forest River renames floorplan codes between the Rockwood and Flagstaff badges rather than sharing them — the two rosters have no floorplan code in common — so the MY2027 rows are paired by measurement rather than by code. Mini Lite pairs one-to-one with Micro Lite across all thirteen plans and Ultra Lite with Super Lite across all eleven, matched on exact published dry weight and confirmed on the full published field vector: 193 of 195 fields agree on the first class and 163 of 165 on the second, the misses being exterior height alone. Two dry-weight ties were broken on that vector with a clear margin (15 of 15 fields against 11 of 15), not on the code letters. The complete map is in the two tables below. Rockwood Signature rows are left unpaired on purpose: Forest River publishes no Flagstaff Classic roster on this channel, and an unmeasured pairing is worth less than an empty cell. Figures are each badge's own factory record and are not merged across the two — where one badge publishes a field the other omits, the omission stands. A representative cross-section of matched pairs, not the complete catalog — both nameplates carry additional floorplans, and Forest River also builds related lines (Rockwood Signature and Geo Pro, Flagstaff E-Pro and Classic) outside these two classes. Cross-reference by layout and length, since matched plans can carry slightly different code conventions between the nameplates and across model years.

04 Model-year & line notes

05 What every Rockwood & Flagstaff has

06 Documents

07 Recalls

NHTSA lists 35 recall campaigns affecting this line. The earliest was reported 5 Nov 2007 and the most recent 10 Oct 2025.

Coverage is not complete, and this matters. These campaigns come from two passes over NHTSA’s public record: a query-by-query harvest of the recall API (1,556 queries, of which 0 failed and 242 returned an explicit zero), and a sweep of NHTSA’s complete recall flat file (325,650 rows), which added 46 campaigns the API harvest had missed. It missed them because the roster it worked from was built by a catalog endpoint that refuses most requests, so entire manufacturer names were never asked about — NHTSA files several Forest River sub-brands as makes of their own. Two limits remain: NHTSA sometimes files a roster under a parent name, and some matches below rest on the wording of the recall rather than its model field. Campaigns affecting only pre-2005 units fall outside this catalog’s range and are not listed. This page is a starting point, not a clearance. Check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy, and again before you tow.

08 Owner-reported problems

Owners have filed 209 complaints with NHTSA about this line. The earliest was filed 13 Jan 1995 and the most recent 15 Jul 2026. The breakdown below is what those owners actually reported, grouped by the component NHTSA assigned.

Safety outcomes in this set: 9 reports describing a crash, 15 reports describing a fire and 14 reported injuries. These are the owner’s own account of what happened and have not been verified by NHTSA.

What gets reported

Most recent reports

The most recent 10 owner reports filed on this line, newest first. Wording is NHTSA’s summary of what the owner described.

How this count is drawn. A report is counted here only when NHTSA’s own model field names this line. What the owner typed in the description is never used to attribute a report: our line names are ordinary English words, and an owner writing “imagine my surprise when the axle went” or naming the state of Montana is not reporting a Grand Design Imagine or a Keystone Montana. The total does include reports NHTSA filed under this line’s own trim badges — Flagstaff 425D and Rockwood Ultra Lite — because each names the same trailer.

Read these as reports, not as findings. Complaints are submitted by owners and NHTSA does not verify them; no complaint here has been confirmed as a defect, and none of them is a recall. The sample is also self-selected — only owners motivated to file appear in it — so a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Use the pattern, not the total: a component that keeps recurring is worth inspecting on any used unit. File or search complaints at NHTSA.