Forest RiverSolaire

Solaire is split by the factory into two groups - Lite Travel Trailers and Travel Trailers - and the split is worth reading, because the whole line sits in a narrow cargo band while the dry weights nearly double. Dry weight runs 4,658 to 8,298 lb across the roster, and cargo capacity runs only 1,252 to 1,990 lb. That means the heavier Solaire plans carry proportionally less than the lighter ones, not more. Dry tongue weights run 520 to 1,080 lb, which keeps the whole roster inside half-ton territory on the hitch.

Across the whole Solaire roster the published dry weights run from 4,658 lbs to 8,298 lbs, cargo capacities from 1,252 lbs to 1,990 lbs, and dry tongue weights from 520 lbs to 1,080 lbs. Exterior lengths run 24 to 37 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.

There is one thing to know before comparing Solaire against anything else: Forest River publishes no GVWR for this line. Dry weight, cargo capacity and dry tongue weight are published for every floorplan; the loaded rating is not. The factory's own glossary defines cargo capacity as GVWR minus unloaded weight, so the rating can be worked out - and a figure worked out is not a figure the manufacturer published, so this site does not print one as though it were. The weight label on the trailer itself carries the real number.

8 of the 17 Solaire 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.

The remaining 9 Solaire floorplans are catalogued here from the factory's published figures. 3 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.

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 235BH at 4,658 lbs dry and the heaviest is the 3380RLBT at 8,298 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 3150TBSS carries the most at 1,990 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 tongue 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.