2026 Forest River Cherokee Timberwolf27MDK

The Cherokee Timberwolf 27MDK has 1,800 lbs of cargo capacity between 10,124 lbs dry and its 11,924 lbs GVWR, 15% 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 1,245 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: 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 4th of 11 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 7,109 lbs to 12,589 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 10,124 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 11,024 lbs, and the published GVWR of 11,924 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. 27MDK is a Cherokee Timberwolf designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 27MDK differs from the other ten Cherokee Timberwolf floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• GVWR, 11,924 lb: third-lowest of eleven, between the 20OG (11,275 lb) and the 39DL (13,095 lb).
• Length, 35 ft 11 in: third-shortest of eleven, between the 20OG (35 ft 8 in) and the 39TN (40 ft 7 in).
• Dry weight, 10,124 lb: fourth-lightest of eleven, between the 39TN (8,854 lb) and the 39HBA (10,774 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,800 lb: fourth-smallest of eleven, between the 39DK (1,276 lb) and the 39NA (1,809 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 15.1%: sixth-smallest of eleven, between the 39DC (14.2%) and the 39DL (17.7%).
• Tongue weight, 1,245 lb: sixth-lightest of eleven, between the 39AL (1,180 lb) and the 39DK (1,255 lb).
• Grey tank, 40 gal: shared with the 16ML, 20OG and 39TN; of eleven, one smaller and six larger, nearest the 39DL (38 gal) and the 39AL and 39DK (70 gal).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.3%: shared with the 39HBA; of eleven, four smaller and five larger, nearest the 39JM (11.6%) and the 39DC (12.7%).

Next to the 39TN, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 27MDK is 1,270 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,226 lb lower, has 2,496 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 95 lb heavier, is 4 ft 8 in shorter and stands 9 in taller; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 39HBA, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 27MDK is 650 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,406 lb lower, has 756 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 85 lb lighter, is 8 ft 4 in shorter, has a grey tank 40 gal smaller and has a black tank 30 gal smaller; the two publish the same exterior height and fresh 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), 18% of the 27MDK’s 1,800 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,468 lb. Across 11 Cherokee Timberwolf floorplans the water share runs 8% to 38%, and 3 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cherokee Timberwolf 39NA at 18% and Cherokee Timberwolf 39DK at 26%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).