2026 Forest River Salem Villa / Salem Grand Villa / Wildwood Lodge / Wildwood Grand Lodge40ZZZ

The Salem Villa 40ZZZ leaves Forest River's factory at 13,694 lbs dry with 2,000 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 40-gallon fresh tank spends 332 lbs of the 2,000 lbs before anything else goes in.

Tongue weight is 1,480 lbs, 11% 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: 190 gallons of grey and black capacity against 40 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Salem Villa roster this is the 9th of 12 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 9,234 lbs to 14,404 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 13,694 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 14,694 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 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. 40ZZZ is a Salem Villa designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 40ZZZ differs from the other eleven Salem Villa floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 10.8%: second-smallest of twelve, between the 42ZEN (10.3%) and the 44ZEN (11.2%).
• Dry weight, 13,694 lb: fourth-heaviest of twelve, between the 42DL (12,719 lb) and the 42ICE (13,749 lb).
• Length, 45 ft: longest of twelve, level with the 42ICE; next are the 42ZEN and 44ZEN (44 ft 11 in).
• Grey tank, 120 gal: largest of twelve, level with the 40RLB; next are the 40FKP, 42DL and four others (80 gal).
• Black tank, 70 gal: fifth-largest of twelve, between the 353FLFB, 40FDEN and five others (40 gal) and the 42DMS, 42QBQ and two others (80 gal).
• Tongue weight, 1,480 lb: sixth-lightest of twelve, between the 42DMS (1,475 lb) and the 42ZEN (1,485 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 2,000 lb: shared with the 40FKP; of twelve, eight smaller and two larger, nearest the 42ICE (1,996 lb) and the 353FLFB (2,301 lb).
• Exterior height, 13 ft 4 in: tallest of twelve, level with the 40FKP, 42ZEN and 44ZEN; next are the 42FLDL and 42ICE (13 ft 3 in).

Next to the 42DL, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 40ZZZ is 975 lb heavier by dry weight, has 864 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 375 lb lighter, is 3 ft 2 in longer, stands 4 in taller, has a fresh tank 1 gal larger, has a grey tank 40 gal larger and has a black tank 30 gal larger.

Next to the 42ICE, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 40ZZZ is 55 lb lighter by dry weight, has 4 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 265 lb lighter, stands 1 in taller, has a grey tank 80 gal larger and has a black tank 30 gal larger; the two publish the same length and fresh tank.

These are destination trailers - towed to a seasonal site, levelled, and largely left there - and the numbers only make sense read that way. Fourteen floorplans run 9,234 to 14,404 lb dry against cargo capacity of just 886 to 2,446 lb. On a touring trailer that ratio would be a warning; here it is the design, because the trailer is not being loaded for a trip. What it does mean is that the fit-out a seasonal site accumulates eats the margin quickly, and 886 lb is not much once a screen room, a grill and a season of furniture are aboard. All fourteen are bumper pull, with 1,260 to 1,855 lb on the tongue - for a tow most owners make twice a year, which is why so many of these are delivered rather than towed by the buyer. Forest River splits the roster into a standard group and a Grand group, and the split is real: the six Grand plans start at 12,209 lb dry where the six standard plans start at 9,234 lb. Fresh water is 39 to 40 gallons across the whole roster, which is a plumbed-site number rather than a boondocking one and tells you plainly what these are for.

A full 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water, 17% of the 40ZZZ’s 2,000 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,668 lb. Across 12 Salem Villa floorplans the water share runs 14% to 37%, and 8 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Salem Villa 40FKP at 17% and Salem Villa 42ICE at 17%.