2027 Forest River Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels290SFK

The Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels 290SFK leaves Forest River's factory at 8,764 lbs dry with 2,134 lbs of cargo capacity. Forest River publishes no GVWR for this line, so the loaded rating is not quoted on this page and is not computed from the other two figures. What the cargo number covers is defined by the factory: fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory come out of it. Fresh water is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling the 54-gallon fresh tank spends 448 lbs of the 2,134 lbs before anything else goes in.

Pin weight is 1,635 lbs, 19% of the dry weight as published; it rises as the trailer is loaded and comes off the truck’s payload, not its towing rating, so check it against the payload on your own door sticker (pin weight and payload).

Off hookups: 147 gallons of grey and black capacity against 54 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels roster this is the 4th of 19 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 7,523 lbs to 12,824 lbs. It sits in the lighter third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 8,764 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 9,831 lbs. Forest River publishes no loaded rating for this line, so the ceiling is the one on the trailer’s own weight label (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. No GVWR is published for this line, so dry plus cargo has no rating to check against. A missing row means Forest River does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

Forest River's own description of this floorplan reads: “Front kitchen fifth wheel under 30 ft with smart, space-saving design. Standard auto-leveling for fast setup and large pass-thru storage. Kitchen features rotating/expandable table, 12V fridge, and pantry. Doorside window with televator entertainment. Queen bed with optional king and washer/dryer prep. Includes MaxxAir fan with remote, 2" rear receiver rated 3,000 lbs. And easy road-ready comfort throughout.” That is the factory's marketing copy rather than a specification, and nothing in it is treated as a verified field on this page - layout descriptions, sleeping arrangements and feature claims in factory copy are not carried into the spec table unless the factory also publishes them as specifications.

How the 290SFK differs from the other eighteen Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2027). How these ranks are worked out.

• Length, 29 ft 10 in: second-shortest of nineteen, between the 281SRK (29 ft 4 in) and the 301SRK (31 ft 8 in).
• Grey tank, 108 gal: third-largest of nineteen, between the 404SRK, R361RLS and two others (92 gal) and the 402SFL and 403SDB (131 gal).
• Dry weight, 8,764 lb: fourth-lightest of nineteen, between the 339SBH (8,757 lb) and the 332SRL (8,943 lb).
• Pin weight as a share of dry weight, 18.7%: shared with the 404SRK; of nineteen, sixteen smaller and one larger, nearest the R361RLS (18.2%) and the R371RK (19.3%).
• Cargo capacity, 2,134 lb: seventh-largest of nineteen, between the 339SBH (2,092 lb) and the 281SRK (2,142 lb).
• Pin weight, 1,635 lb: ninth-lightest of nineteen, between the 8294BS (1,575 lb) and the 8288SB (1,699 lb).
• Exterior height, 13 ft 3 in: ninth-tallest of nineteen, between the 281SRK, 8288SB and four others (13 ft 2 in) and the 401SFB, 404SRK and four others (13 ft 4 in).
• Black tank, 39 gal: smallest of nineteen, level with the 281SRK, 301SRK and three others; next are the 8288SB, 8291RK and three others (50 gal).

Next to the 339SBH, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 290SFK is 7 lb heavier by dry weight, has 42 lb more cargo capacity, has a pin weight 173 lb heavier, is 6 ft 9 in shorter, stands 3 in taller, has a fresh tank 1 gal larger and has a grey tank 30 gal larger; the two publish the same black tank.

Next to the 332SRL, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 290SFK is 179 lb lighter by dry weight, has 88 lb more cargo capacity, has a pin weight 100 lb heavier, is 5 ft 2 in shorter, stands 3 in taller, has a fresh tank 1 gal larger and has a grey tank 30 gal larger; the two publish the same black tank.

Signature is where Rockwood stops being a bumper-pull range. Across the fourteen plans profiled here dry weight runs 7,523 to 12,824 lb and pin weight runs 1,280 to 2,205 lb, which is a payload question before it is a towing one -- pin weight lands on the truck's rear axle, and the heavier plans ask for more of it once passengers and a hitch are in. Pin sits in a band of 15.4 to 19.3 percent of dry weight across the whole roster, so the grouping scales predictably rather than hiding a nose-heavy outlier. Cargo capacity runs 1,461 to 2,674 lb and does not track size: the heaviest plan carries the most, but the second-least accommodating plan is a mid-weight one, so the spread is worth reading per plan rather than by length. Fresh water is 53 or 54 gallons on every plan in the roster; grey runs 78 to 131 gallons and black 39 to 92, so waste capacity is the variable that separates these plans off-grid, not fresh.

A full 54-gallon fresh tank is about 448 lb of water, 21% of the 290SFK’s 2,134 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,686 lb. Across 19 Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels floorplans the water share runs 17% to 31%, and 12 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels 281SRK at 21% and Rockwood Signature Fifth Wheels 339SBH at 21%.