2026 Forest River Salem Villa / Salem Grand Villa / Wildwood Lodge / Wildwood Grand Lodge42ZEN

The Salem Villa 42ZEN leaves Forest River's factory at 14,404 lbs dry with 2,400 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 2,400 lbs before anything else goes in.

Tongue weight is 1,485 lbs, 10% 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: 160 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 12th of 12 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 9,234 lbs to 14,404 lbs. It is the heaviest plan in the line, so the tow vehicle should be settled before the floorplan is.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 14,404 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 15,604 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. 42ZEN is a Salem Villa designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 42ZEN differs from the other eleven Salem Villa floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 14,404 lb: heaviest of twelve; next is the 44ZEN (14,309 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 2,400 lb: largest of twelve; next is the 353FLFB (2,301 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 10.3%: smallest of twelve; next is the 40ZZZ (10.8%).
• Tongue weight, 1,485 lb: sixth-heaviest of twelve, between the 40ZZZ (1,480 lb) and the 40FKP (1,585 lb).
• Length, 44 ft 11 in: shared with the 44ZEN; of twelve, eight shorter and two longer, nearest the 42DMS (43 ft 10 in) and the 40ZZZ and 42ICE (45 ft).
• Exterior height, 13 ft 4 in: tallest of twelve, level with the 40FKP, 40ZZZ and 44ZEN; next are the 42FLDL and 42ICE (13 ft 3 in).
• Black tank, 80 gal: largest of twelve, level with the 42DMS, 42QBQ and 44ZEN; next is the 40ZZZ (70 gal).
• Grey tank, 80 gal: shared with the 40FKP, 42DL and three others; of twelve, four smaller and two larger, nearest the 42DMS (70 gal) and the 40RLB and 40ZZZ (120 gal).

Next to the 44ZEN, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 42ZEN is 95 lb heavier by dry weight, has 509 lb more cargo capacity and has a tongue weight 120 lb lighter; the two publish the same length, exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black 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, 14% of the 42ZEN’s 2,400 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,068 lb. Across 12 Salem Villa floorplans the water share runs 14% to 37%, and this plan’s is the lowest. Nearest on that share: Salem Villa 353FLFB at 14%.