2026 Forest River Viking22BHSR

The Viking 22BHSR has 2,102 lbs of cargo capacity between 5,498 lbs dry and its 7,600 lbs GVWR, 28% 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 600 lbs, 11% 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: 64 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 Viking roster this is the 11th of 16 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,499 lbs to 8,052 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 5,498 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 6,549 lbs, and the published GVWR of 7,600 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. 22BHSR is a Viking designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 22BHSR differs from the other fifteen Viking 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, 10.9%: third-smallest of sixteen, between the 17FQ (10.7%) and the 17BH (11.2%).
• Dry weight, 5,498 lb: sixth-heaviest of sixteen, between the 25QBH (5,048 lb) and the 25TH (5,550 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 2,102 lb: seventh-largest of sixteen, between the 30RKDS (1,948 lb) and the 25TH (2,350 lb).
• GVWR, 7,600 lb: eighth-highest of sixteen, between the 26BH (7,450 lb) and the 25QBH (7,630 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 27.7%: eighth-largest of sixteen, between the 282DORM (25.9%) and the 292TB (28.4%).
• Tongue weight, 600 lb: eighth-heaviest of sixteen, between the 18DBS (515 lb) and the 25QBH (630 lb).
• Length, 26 ft: eighth-shortest of sixteen, between the 18BH and 18DBS (23 ft) and the 242MK (26 ft 10 in).
• Grey tank, 32 gal: shared with the 18BH, 242MK and 26BH; of sixteen, three smaller and nine larger, nearest the 17BH and 17FQ (27 gal) and the 12BH, 12RD and two others (37 gal).
• Exterior height, 11 ft: shared with the 242MK, 25QBH and four others; of sixteen, eight lower and one taller, nearest the 25TH (10 ft 7 in) and the 30RKDS (11 ft 3 in).
• Fresh tank, 40 gal: largest of sixteen, level with the 18BH, 242MK and five others; next is the 18DBS (39 gal).

Next to the 25QBH, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 22BHSR is 450 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 30 lb lower, has 480 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 30 lb lighter, is 4 ft 5 in shorter and has a grey tank 32 gal smaller; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank and black tank.

Next to the 25TH (2027 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 22BHSR is 52 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 300 lb lower, has 248 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 332 lb lighter, is 4 ft shorter, stands 5 in taller, has a fresh tank 2 gal larger, has a grey tank 12 gal smaller and has a black tank 4 gal larger.

Viking is organised by weight rather than by layout, and the factory names the groupings accordingly: 3K, 4K, 5K and 6K Series. That makes it the most readable roster in this group for anyone shopping to a tow limit, because the series name is the weight class. Eighteen floorplans run 2,499 to 7,208 lb dry on lengths of 16 feet to 36 feet 8 inches, with tongue weights of 325 to 930 lb.

A full 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 16% of the 22BHSR’s 2,102 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,770 lb. Across 16 Viking floorplans the water share runs 11% to 55%, and 9 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Viking 25TH at 13% and Viking 30RKDS at 16%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).