2026 Forest River Surveyor Legend230MDLE

The Surveyor Legend 230MDLE has 1,500 lbs of cargo capacity between 6,088 lbs dry and its 7,588 lbs GVWR, 20% of that rating; filling its 40-gallon fresh tank at 8.3 lb a gallon uses 332 lbs of it (how to read trailer weights).

Tongue weight is 840 lbs, 14% 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: 70 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 Surveyor Legend roster this is the 11th of 14 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 3,777 lbs to 7,743 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 6,088 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 6,838 lbs, and the published GVWR of 7,588 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. 230MDLE is a Surveyor Legend designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 230MDLE differs from the other thirteen Surveyor Legend floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2026). How these ranks are worked out.

• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 13.8%: largest of fourteen; next is the 260BHLE (12.8%).
• Tongue weight, 840 lb: second-heaviest of fourteen, between the 296QBLE (804 lb) and the 303BHLE (860 lb).
• Dry weight, 6,088 lb: fourth-heaviest of fourteen, between the 261RKLE (6,078 lb) and the 242RDLE (6,163 lb).
• GVWR, 7,588 lb: seventh-highest of fourteen, between the 261RKLE (7,578 lb) and the 205RKLE (7,655 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,500 lb: shared with the 242RDLE and 261RKLE; of fourteen, one smaller and ten larger, nearest the 19RKLE (1,216 lb) and the 19MDBLE (1,598 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 19.8%: shared with the 261RKLE and 303BHLE; of fourteen, one smaller and ten larger, nearest the 242RDLE (19.6%) and the 19RKLE (21.7%).
• Length, 29 ft 11 in: shared with the 242RDLE and 260BHLE; of fourteen, eight shorter and three longer, nearest the 252RBLE (29 ft 7 in) and the 261RKLE (30 ft).
• Grey tank, 40 gal: shared with the 202RBLE, 205RKLE and three others; of fourteen, six smaller and two larger, nearest the 19BHLE, 19MDBLE and four others (30 gal) and the 261RKLE and 303BHLE (60 gal).

Next to the 261RKLE, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 230MDLE is 10 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 10 lb higher, has a tongue weight 200 lb heavier, is 1 in shorter and has a grey tank 20 gal smaller; the two publish the same cargo capacity, exterior height, fresh tank and black tank.

Next to the 242RDLE (2027 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 230MDLE is 75 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 75 lb lower, has a tongue weight 160 lb heavier, stands 1 in taller, has a fresh tank 15 gal smaller, has a grey tank 10 gal larger and has a black tank 10 gal smaller; the two publish the same cargo capacity and length.

Surveyor Legend is the lightest-hitching line in this group by a clear margin: tongue weight runs 408 to 860 lb across fifteen published floorplans, on trailers from 23 feet 7 inches to 37 feet 11 inches. Dry weight runs 3,777 to 7,743 lb with 1,497 to 2,798 lb of cargo capacity, and every plan on the roster ties out exactly - dry weight plus cargo equals the published GVWR on all fifteen. Forest River publishes a floorplan description for thirteen of the fifteen, which is unusually complete for this channel.

A full 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 22% of the 230MDLE’s 1,500 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,168 lb. Across 14 Surveyor Legend floorplans the water share runs 12% to 30%, and 1 gives up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Surveyor Legend 261RKLE at 22% and Surveyor Legend 242RDLE at 30%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).