2026 Forest River Sandstorm / Stealth / Shockwave2513

The Sandstorm 2513 leaves Forest River's factory at 7,629 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 11,400 lbs and 3,771 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 33% of the loaded rating, and Forest River's own definition is worth reading before you plan against it: cargo capacity is what remains for fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory. Fresh water alone is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling this trailer's 102-gallon fresh tank spends 847 lbs of that 3,771 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Tongue weight is 1,230 lbs, 16% 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: 120 gallons of grey and black capacity against 102 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Sandstorm travel-trailer roster this is the 2nd of 5 travel trailers by dry weight, in a line that runs from 7,439 lbs to 9,399 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 7,629 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 9,515 lbs, and the published GVWR of 11,400 lbs is the limit (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly. 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. 2513 is a Sandstorm designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 2513 differs from the other four Sandstorm travel trailers. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• GVWR, 11,400 lb: lowest of five; next is the 2215 (12,739 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 3,771 lb: smallest of five; next is the 2600 (4,441 lb).
• Exterior height, 12 ft 6 in: lowest of five; next are the 2215, 2600 and two others (12 ft 9 in).
• Dry weight, 7,629 lb: second-lightest of five, between the 2215 (7,439 lb) and the 2730 (8,429 lb).
• Tongue weight, 1,230 lb: second-lightest of five, between the 2215 (1,155 lb) and the 2730 (1,470 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 16.1%: second-smallest of five, between the 2215 (15.5%) and the 2600 (17.2%).
• Length, 30 ft: second-shortest of five, between the 2215 (28 ft 6 in) and the 2730 (34 ft 1 in).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 33.1%: third-smallest of five, between the 2600 (32.7%) and the 2730 (37.4%).

Next to the 2215, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 2513 is 190 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,339 lb lower, has 1,529 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 75 lb heavier, is 1 ft 6 in longer and stands 3 in lower; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 2730, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 2513 is 800 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 2,070 lb lower, has 1,270 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 240 lb lighter, is 4 ft 1 in shorter, stands 3 in lower, has a grey tank 2 gal smaller and has a black tank 2 gal smaller; the two publish the same fresh tank.

Sandstorm is a toy-hauler roster published under three badges at once, and the first useful thing to know about it is that Sandstorm, Stealth and Shockwave are the same sixteen trailers. Not similar - the same floorplan codes, the same dry weights, the same cargo capacities, the same tanks, checked field by field. So a shopper cross-shopping the three badges is cross-shopping one product, and the choice between them is a dealer question rather than a trailer question. Within that roster there are two real classes. Five plans are travel trailers, 7,439 to 9,399 lb dry with 1,155 to 1,855 lb on the tongue. Seven are fifth wheels, 9,459 to 15,749 lb dry with 2,165 to 3,765 lb on the pin. The lightest fifth wheel outweighs the heaviest bumper pull, so the two halves do not overlap and no plan here is a borderline call. Cargo capacity runs 3,281 to 5,676 lb on the fifth wheels and 3,771 to 5,300 lb on the travel trailers - the bumper pulls give up very little payload, which is unusual and is the reason to read the table rather than assume the fifth wheels carry more.

A full 102-gallon fresh tank is about 847 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 22% of the 2513’s 3,771 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,924 lb. Across 5 Sandstorm travel-trailer floorplans the water share runs 16% to 22%, and this plan’s is the highest. Nearest on that share: Sandstorm 2600 at 19%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).