2026 Forest River Cherokee Timberwolf39DC

The Cherokee Timberwolf 39DC has 1,916 lbs of cargo capacity between 11,554 lbs dry and its 13,470 lbs GVWR, 14% 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 1,470 lbs, 13% 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: 150 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 7th 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 11,554 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 12,512 lbs, and the published GVWR of 13,470 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. 39DC is a Cherokee Timberwolf designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

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

• GVWR, 13,470 lb: second-highest of eleven, between the 39JM (13,465 lb) and the 39NA (13,614 lb).
• Tongue weight, 1,470 lb: second-heaviest of eleven, between the 39JM (1,465 lb) and the 39NA (1,614 lb).
• Length, 44 ft 11 in: second-longest of eleven, between the 39HBA (44 ft 3 in) and the 39AL (45 ft).
• Dry weight, 11,554 lb: fifth-heaviest of eleven, between the 39DL (10,778 lb) and the 39NA (11,805 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 14.2%: fifth-smallest of eleven, between the 39NA (13.3%) and the 27MDK (15.1%).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.7%: fifth-largest of eleven, between the 27MDK and 39HBA (12.3%) and the 20OG and 39TN (13%).
• Cargo capacity, 1,916 lb: sixth-smallest of eleven, between the 39NA (1,809 lb) and the 39DL (2,317 lb).
• Grey tank, 80 gal: largest of eleven, level with the 39HBA, 39JM and 39NA; next are the 39AL and 39DK (70 gal).
• Black tank, 70 gal: shared with the 39HBA and 39NA; of eleven, seven smaller and one larger, nearest the 16ML, 20OG and four others (40 gal) and the 39JM (80 gal).

Next to the 39DL, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 39DC is 776 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 375 lb higher, has 401 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 375 lb heavier, is 2 ft 3 in longer, stands 2 in taller, has a grey tank 42 gal larger and has a black tank 32 gal larger; the two publish the same fresh tank.

Next to the 39NA, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 39DC is 251 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 144 lb lower, has 107 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 144 lb lighter, is 2 ft 3 in longer and stands 7 in taller; the two publish the same 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), 17% of the 39DC’s 1,916 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,584 lb. Across 11 Cherokee Timberwolf floorplans the water share runs 8% to 38%, and 5 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cherokee Timberwolf 39DL at 14% and Cherokee Timberwolf 39NA at 18%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).