01 What Sandstorm is
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.
Across the whole Sandstorm roster the published dry weights run from 7,439 lbs to 16,354 lbs, cargo capacities from 3,066 lbs to 5,676 lbs, and dry hitch weights from 1,155 lbs to 3,765 lbs. Exterior lengths run 28 to 45 feet. Those are Forest River's figures for a standard build, captured from the factory roster block and confirmed against each floorplan's own factory page.
Forest River publishes a GVWR for 15 of the 16 floorplans, and on 15 of those the arithmetic ties out exactly: dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published rating to the pound. That check is run on every plan before it is profiled here, and a plan that fails it is catalogued with the disagreement printed rather than quietly corrected.
02 Floorplans profiled in depth
12 of the 16 Sandstorm floorplans are profiled in full below, each on its own page with the complete factory weight, dimension and tank block. The profiled set is spread across the weight range rather than taken from one end of it, so the lightest and heaviest plans in the line are both represented. Every plan profiled here publishes a full field set and, where Forest River publishes a GVWR, passes the dry-plus-cargo arithmetic check.
| Floorplan | Dry wt | Length | Cargo | Hitch wt | GVWR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2215 | 7,439 | 28' 6" | 5,300 | 1,155 | 12,739 |
| 2513 | 7,629 | 30' 0" | 3,771 | 1,230 | 11,400 |
| 2730 | 8,429 | 34' 1" | 5,041 | 1,470 | 13,470 |
| 2600 | 9,129 | 34' 9" | 4,441 | 1,570 | 13,570 |
| 2900 | 9,399 | 36' 6" | 4,456 | 1,855 | 13,855 |
| 2710 | 9,459 | 32' 3" | 5,300 | 2,165 | 14,759 |
| 2800 | 10,419 | 32' 3" | 5,300 | 2,265 | 15,719 |
| 3300 | 10,879 | 36' 10" | 5,676 | 2,555 | 16,555 |
| 3217GX | 13,124 | 38' 4" | 4,036 | 3,160 | 17,160 |
| 3513GX | 13,969 | 40' 5" | 3,281 | 3,250 | 17,250 |
| 4017GX | 15,674 | 45' 0" | 5,326 | 3,765 | 21,000 |
| 4114GX | 15,749 | 45' 11" | 5,251 | 3,360 | 21,000 |
Every figure in this table is a Forest River factory publication for 2026, captured twice - from the line roster block and from each floorplan's own factory page - and cross-checked field by field. Forest River publishes no sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size or MSRP for this line, so there are no columns for them.
03 Also in the 2026 line
The remaining 4 Sandstorm floorplans are catalogued here from the factory's published figures. 4 of them are Forest River dealer-stock-only plans, which are real floorplans but are not orderable through the normal channel. A plan is catalogued rather than profiled when the factory has not yet published its full field set, when its own published figures disagree with each other, or simply because the profiled set is capped. Nothing in this table is estimated.
| Floorplan | Dry wt | GVWR | Cargo | Hitch wt | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2550 (dealer stock) | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Dealer stock only |
| 3216GX (dealer stock) | 12,884 | 16,925 | 4,041 | 2,925 | Dealer stock only |
| 3715GX (dealer stock) | 14,254 | 17,320 | 3,066 | 3,320 | Dealer stock only |
| 4015GX (dealer stock) | 16,354 | 21,000 | 4,646 | 3,335 | Dealer stock only |
Catalogued plans carry the factory figures Forest River publishes and nothing else. A row reading “Not published” means the factory does not publish that field for that plan - it is never a placeholder for a figure this site could not be bothered to find.
04 How to choose
Sort this line by the constraint you actually have. If the tow vehicle is fixed, start at the weight column: the lightest plan in the roster is the 2215 at 7,439 lbs dry and the heaviest is the 4015GX - DSO at 16,354 lbs, and that spread is wide enough that the two ends are not the same buying decision. If the tow vehicle is not fixed, sort by cargo capacity instead - the 3300 carries the most at 5,676 lbs, and payload is the number that runs out first on a long trip.
Do not sort by floorplan number. Forest River's codes encode length loosely and layout not at all, and this site does not decode them into layout claims. Two plans with adjacent numbers in this roster can differ by hundreds of pounds of dry weight and by more than that in dry hitch weight, which is the figure that determines what the tow vehicle has to be.
Where Forest River publishes a floorplan description it is quoted on the plan page and identified as factory marketing copy rather than a specification. Where it publishes none, the plan page says so instead of describing a layout that nobody has verified. That is the difference between a catalogue and a brochure.
05 What to weigh before buying
What this line is
Forest River publishes this roster three times, as Sandstorm, as Stealth and as Shockwave, on three separate factory line pages with their own per-plan detail pages. All three publish the same sixteen floorplan codes and the same specifications: 295 non-null published fields on each side, GVWR on 15 of 16 on each side, and all 15 tie out exactly against dry weight plus cargo capacity. Compared field by field across all sixteen plans, Stealth and Sandstorm differ in nothing at all, and Shockwave differs in one character - it writes the 2215 awning as 18 where the other two write 18 feet. This site catalogues that as one trailer under one set of pages carrying all three names, rather than publishing three near-identical page sets; the Sandstorm badge is used for the page addresses because the three are indistinguishable on every measurable axis and something had to break the tie. Twelve of the sixteen plans are profiled. The other four are marked dealer stock only by the factory and are catalogued with their weights instead. Sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size and MSRP are not published in this channel, and neither is garage length or fuel-station capacity - which on a toy hauler are the two figures buyers most want, so their absence is stated here rather than filled with an estimate.
The four fields Forest River does not publish
Sleeping capacity, axle count, tire size and MSRP are absent from Forest River's specification channel for Sandstorm. They are absent from this site too. None of the four is estimated from the segment, inferred from a sibling floorplan or lifted from a dealer listing quoting its own guess back. Tire size matters most of the four: two codes a digit apart are different tires with different load ratings, and a misread is a safety claim.
Match the tow vehicle honestly
This roster holds two towing classes, so the first question is which half of it you are shopping. The plans here run from 7,439 lbs to 16,354 lbs dry with dry hitch weights of 1,155 lbs to 3,765 lbs, and that span crosses the line between a bumper pull and a fifth wheel. On a travel trailer the hitch load sits on a weight-distribution hitch and the tow vehicle's tongue rating. On a fifth wheel the pin load comes off the truck's payload rating rather than its towing rating - the towing number is the one most often quoted and the wrong one. Check the grouping column in the table above before comparing any two plans on weight alone. Dry weight is not towing weight in either case: water, batteries, propane, gear and dealer-installed accessories all sit on top of it. Read your own door sticker, and weigh the trailer loaded the way you actually travel.