2026 Forest River Cherokee Timberwolf39AL

The Cherokee Timberwolf 39AL has 1,186 lbs of cargo capacity between 11,994 lbs dry and its 13,180 lbs GVWR, 9% 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 1,180 lbs, 10% 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: 110 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 10th of 11 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 7,109 lbs to 12,589 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 11,994 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 12,587 lbs, and the published GVWR of 13,180 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. 39AL is a Cherokee Timberwolf designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 39AL differs from the other ten Cherokee Timberwolf floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 9.8%: smallest of eleven; next is the 39DL (10.2%).
• Length, 45 ft: longest of eleven; next is the 39DC (44 ft 11 in).
• Dry weight, 11,994 lb: second-heaviest of eleven, between the 39DK (11,979 lb) and the 39JM (12,589 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,186 lb: second-smallest of eleven, between the 39JM (876 lb) and the 39DK (1,276 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 9%: second-smallest of eleven, between the 39JM (6.5%) and the 39DK (9.6%).
• Tongue weight, 1,180 lb: fifth-lightest of eleven, between the 39TN (1,150 lb) and the 27MDK (1,245 lb).
• GVWR, 13,180 lb: sixth-lowest of eleven, between the 39TN (13,150 lb) and the 39DK (13,255 lb).
• Grey tank, 70 gal: shared with the 39DK; of eleven, five smaller and four larger, nearest the 16ML, 20OG and two others (40 gal) and the 39DC, 39HBA and two others (80 gal).

Next to the 39DK, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 39AL is 15 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 75 lb lower, has 90 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 75 lb lighter and is 1 ft 3 in longer; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 39JM, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 39AL is 595 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 285 lb lower, has 310 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 285 lb lighter, is 1 ft 8 in longer, stands 2 in taller, has a grey tank 10 gal smaller and has a black tank 40 gal smaller; the two publish the same 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), 28% of the 39AL’s 1,186 lb cargo capacity, leaving 854 lb. Across 11 Cherokee Timberwolf floorplans the water share runs 8% to 38%, and 1 gives up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cherokee Timberwolf 39DK at 26% and Cherokee Timberwolf 39JM at 38%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).