2027 Forest River Wildcat262DBEDS

The Wildcat 262DBEDS has 2,678 lbs of cargo capacity between 6,900 lbs dry and its 9,578 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 778 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: 90 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 Wildcat travel-trailer roster this is the 14th of 17 travel trailers by dry weight, in a line that runs from 3,489 lbs to 8,036 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 6,900 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 8,239 lbs, and the published GVWR of 9,578 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. 262DBEDS is a Wildcat designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 262DBEDS differs from the other sixteen Wildcat travel trailers. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2027). How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 6,900 lb: fourth-heaviest of seventeen, between the 261RLX (6,785 lb) and the 305MBX (7,850 lb).
• Grey tank, 60 gal: fourth-smallest of seventeen, between the 181DBEDS (32 gal) and the 220BATH, 221CHEF and eight others (64 gal).
• Black tank, 30 gal: fourth-smallest of seventeen, between the 160BATH, 170DBEDS and 181DBEDS (27 gal) and the 220BATH, 221CHEF and ten others (32 gal).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.3%: sixth-smallest of seventeen, between the 221CHEF (10.8%) and the 251CHEF (11.6%).
• Cargo capacity, 2,678 lb: seventh-smallest of seventeen, between the 220BATH (2,412 lb) and the 271CHEF (2,828 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 28%: seventh-smallest of seventeen, between the 278RLX (27.1%) and the 305MBX (28.6%).
• Length, 33 ft 6 in: seventh-longest of seventeen, between the 261RLX (31 ft 8 in) and the 277FKX (33 ft 11 in).
• Fresh tank, 40 gal: seventh-largest of seventeen, between the 160BATH, 170DBEDS and eight others (39 gal) and the 246DBX, 249RKX and four others (61 gal).
• GVWR, 9,578 lb: ninth-lowest of seventeen, between the 251CHEF (9,513 lb) and the 246DBX (9,595 lb).
• Tongue weight, 778 lb: ninth-lightest of seventeen, between the 241DBEDS (740 lb) and the 246DBX (795 lb).
• Exterior height, 11 ft 3 in: shared with the 241DBEDS, 251CHEF and three others; of seventeen, five lower and six taller, nearest the 220BATH and 221CHEF (11 ft) and the 246DBX, 249RKX and four others (11 ft 7 in).

Next to the 261RLX (2026 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 262DBEDS is 115 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 87 lb lower, has 202 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 87 lb lighter, is 1 ft 10 in longer, stands 4 in lower, has a fresh tank 21 gal smaller, has a grey tank 4 gal smaller and has a black tank 2 gal smaller.

Next to the 305MBX (2026 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 262DBEDS is 950 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,420 lb lower, has 470 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 20 lb lighter, is 2 ft shorter, stands 4 in lower, has a fresh tank 21 gal smaller, has a grey tank 4 gal smaller and has a black tank 2 gal smaller.

Sixteen 2027 Wildcat floorplans with a full factory record, read from Forest River on 2 Nov 2026. They run 3,489 to 8,036 lb dry on lengths of 22 feet 7 inches to 35 feet 6 inches, with hitch weights of 359 to 945 lb and cargo capacities of 1,171 to 3,372 lb. Forest River publishes a GVWR for all sixteen, from 4,759 to 11,145 lb, and dry weight plus cargo capacity equals it exactly on every one.

A full 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 12% of the 262DBEDS’s 2,678 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,346 lb. Across 17 Wildcat travel-trailer floorplans the water share runs 10% to 28%, and 12 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Wildcat 271CHEF at 11% and Wildcat 220BATH at 13%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).