Forest RiverSabre

Sabre is Forest River's affordable-luxury full-size fifth wheel — a residential, heavily-optioned coach pitched a notch below true luxury. It sits a half-step above the brand's own up-trim sibling Sandpiper toward the Cedar Creek luxury line, and cross-shops the volume mainstream-luxury fifth wheels — Grand Design's Reflection and Keystone's Cougar — from just above. Where Sandpiper offers full-size space at a mainstream price, Sabre adds the luxury-tier touches — vacuum-bond laminated construction, a tankless water heater, twin ducted air conditioners, real wood cabinetry and solid-surface counters — while staying well below the Cedar Creek luxury line on price. Forest River markets it as “luxurious RV living at an affordable price.”

The pitch is luxury equipment without the luxury sticker. Every Sabre is built on the Lippert M-19 welded I-beam chassis — continuous welded main beams of 50,000-psi steel, steel-shot-blasted and powder-coated with a 2,000-hour salt-spray-resistant coating — with a heated forced-air underbelly with enclosed gate valves, vacuum-bond laminated sidewalls and slide-outs, a PVC roof membrane with a thermal foil barrier in the roof and front cap, and a high-gloss gelcoat front cap with LED lighting. Running gear is a tandem-axle setup on aluminum wheels with EZ-lube hubs and tire-pressure safety sensors, with an electric auto-level system. The numeric per-axle GAWR is not separately published by Forest River for Sabre, so it is not asserted here.

The systems and interior package reads above the price. Twin 15,000-BTU ducted air conditioners ship standard — prepped for a third — alongside a 50-amp marine-style detachable power cord, a tankless on-demand water heater, a 12-volt refrigerator, real wood lumbercore cabinetry, a workstation farm sink, solid-surface countertops, a 30-inch microwave, an exclusive MK Design residential-style collection and smart projectors in the primary bedrooms. A large smart TV, a Camper King bed, oversized bed slides and stackable washer/dryer prep are standard across the line, with four-camera and inverter prep for off-grid and towing add-ons. For 2026 the retail line spans eight catalogued floorplans plus two Dealer Stock Only; the six most distinct retail layouts are profiled in depth below — from the light, short 32GKS to the heaviest, longest 38RVHUNTER — and the remaining plans are catalogued but not profiled. Sabre is marketed under the Cherokee umbrella.

Six of the most distinct 2026 retail floorplans are profiled in full with Forest River factory-verified specifications, spanning the breadth of the line: the light, short rear-living 32GKS; the Sundeck-equipped 33RLP with its industry-first retractable patio deck; the convertible Flex Room 36FLX; the RV Miles community co-brand 37RVMILES; the two-bedroom 36DBB family flagship; and the heaviest, longest RV Hunter co-brand 38RVHUNTER.

Four further 2026 Sabre fifth wheels round out the catalog. Two are retail plans not profiled in depth here — the 36EST rear kitchen and the 37FLH — and two are listed by Forest River as Dealer Stock Only, built to dealer order rather than catalogued for general retail: the 36ML (a patio-deck plan) and the 38DBL (two full baths, two bedrooms, a loft and an outside kitchen). They are not profiled here, but their factory-published weights are listed for reference. All derive GVWR as UVW plus CCC, the same as the profiled line.

The Sabre line sorts cleanly by who is traveling and how the space is used. For couples, two rear-living plans anchor the bottom of the line: the 32GKS is the lightest and shortest Sabre — a chef's island kitchen, theater seating and a rear living room on the line's lowest pin, the easiest to tow — while the 33RLP adds the signature Sundeck retractable patio deck, an L-shaped sectional, a fireplace and a residential oven for outdoor-focused living. Both sleep four and are the most truck-friendly coaches in the line.

For families and remote workers, three plans carry the volume. The 36FLX is the most versatile — a convertible Flex Room that switches between a mobile office and extra sleeping, a loft, bunk beds and an outside kitchen, sleeping up to ten under the line's longest awning. The 37RVMILES, co-branded with the RV Miles community, pairs a rear living room with a loft, a side patio and a desk for life on the road, with an optional full-body-paint Rugged & Loyal edition. The 36DBB is the two-bedroom family flagship: a private guest suite with its own bath, a drop-frame loft, two full bathrooms, two entry doors, five slides and the line's biggest tanks and payload. For the longest, most-equipped coach, the RV Hunter co-branded 38RVHUNTER adds a bath-and-a-half, a side-by-side refrigerator, washer/dryer prep and a desk with a fold-up bunk — the heaviest and longest Sabre.

Across all of them the build is the same: the Lippert M-19 welded I-beam chassis, vacuum-bond laminated sidewalls, the high-gloss gelcoat front cap, twin 15,000-BTU ducted air conditioners prepped for a third, the tankless water heater, real wood lumbercore cabinetry, solid-surface counters and the smart projectors. The decision is layout, weight and pin, not equipment level — and against a Sandpiper one notch below, the difference is the laminated construction and the richer standard package.