2026 Forest River Surveyor Legend252RBLE

The Surveyor Legend 252RBLE has 1,702 lbs of cargo capacity between 6,033 lbs dry and its 7,735 lbs GVWR, 22% 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 735 lbs, 12% 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 9th of 14 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 3,777 lbs to 7,743 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 6,033 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 6,884 lbs, and the published GVWR of 7,735 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. 252RBLE is a Surveyor Legend designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 252RBLE 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, 12.2%: third-largest of fourteen, between the 19MDBLE (12.1%) and the 260BHLE (12.8%).
• GVWR, 7,735 lb: fourth-highest of fourteen, between the 242RDLE (7,663 lb) and the 260BHLE (7,740 lb).
• Tongue weight, 735 lb: fifth-heaviest of fourteen, between the 242RDLE (680 lb) and the 260BHLE (740 lb).
• Dry weight, 6,033 lb: sixth-heaviest of fourteen, between the 205RKLE (5,843 lb) and the 261RKLE (6,078 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,702 lb: sixth-smallest of fourteen, between the 19MDBLE (1,598 lb) and the 19RBLE (1,732 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 22%: sixth-smallest of fourteen, between the 19RKLE (21.7%) and the 205RKLE (23.7%).
• Length, 29 ft 7 in: seventh-longest of fourteen, between the 204MKLE and 205RKLE (27 ft) and the 230MDLE, 242RDLE and 260BHLE (29 ft 11 in).
• 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 205RKLE, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 252RBLE is 190 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 80 lb higher, has 110 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 80 lb heavier and is 2 ft 7 in longer; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 261RKLE, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 252RBLE is 45 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 157 lb higher, has 202 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 95 lb heavier, is 5 in shorter and has a grey tank 20 gal smaller; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank and black tank.

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), 20% of the 252RBLE’s 1,702 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,370 lb. Across 14 Surveyor Legend floorplans the water share runs 12% to 30%, and 4 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Surveyor Legend 205RKLE at 18% and Surveyor Legend 19RKLE at 20%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).