2026 Forest River Cherokee Timberwolf16ML

The Cherokee Timberwolf 16ML has 4,131 lbs of cargo capacity between 7,109 lbs dry and its 11,240 lbs GVWR, 37% 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 1,040 lbs, 15% 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: 80 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 Cherokee Timberwolf roster this is the 1st of 11 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 7,109 lbs to 12,589 lbs. It is the lightest plan in the line, which makes it the one to look at first if the tow vehicle is the constraint.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 7,109 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 9,175 lbs, and the published GVWR of 11,240 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. 16ML is a Cherokee Timberwolf designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 16ML differs from the other ten Cherokee Timberwolf floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 7,109 lb: lightest of eleven; next is the 20OG (8,294 lb).
• GVWR, 11,240 lb: lowest of eleven; next is the 20OG (11,275 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 36.8%: largest of eleven; next is the 39TN (32.7%).
• Tongue weight, 1,040 lb: lightest of eleven; next is the 20OG (1,075 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 14.6%: largest of eleven; next is the 39NA (13.7%).
• Length, 27 ft 9 in: shortest of eleven; next is the 20OG (35 ft 8 in).
• Cargo capacity, 4,131 lb: second-largest of eleven, between the 20OG (2,981 lb) and the 39TN (4,296 lb).
• Grey tank, 40 gal: shared with the 20OG, 27MDK and 39TN; of eleven, one smaller and six larger, nearest the 39DL (38 gal) and the 39AL and 39DK (70 gal).

Next to the 20OG, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 16ML is 1,185 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 35 lb lower, has 1,150 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 35 lb lighter and is 7 ft 11 in shorter; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Timberwolf carries the widest cargo spread of any line in this group: 876 lb at the bottom of the roster and 4,296 lb at the top, a factor of nearly five, on trailers 7,109 to 12,589 lb dry. Two of the eleven published plans are in a separate mini-loft travel-trailer grouping and the other nine are destination trailers. Hitch weight stays between 1,040 and 1,614 lb across the whole range, so the hitch figure alone will not tell you which end of the line you are looking at - the cargo number will.

A full 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 8% of the 16ML’s 4,131 lb cargo capacity, leaving 3,799 lb. Across 11 Cherokee Timberwolf floorplans the water share runs 8% to 38%, and 9 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cherokee Timberwolf 39TN at 8% and Cherokee Timberwolf 20OG at 11%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).