2026 Forest River Wildcat36FUN

The 36FUN is Wildcat’s dual-entry split-bedroom family plan. It pairs a rear king master with a full rear bath against a front bunkhouse suite (bunk beds plus a queen) with its own second full bath, joined by a mid living room (theater seating, a kitchen island, an entertainment center and a fireplace), opened by three slide-outs with dual entry doors, sleeping eight. With a king master at one end and a bunk-and-queen suite at the other it puts two private sleeping zones and two full bathrooms on a single coach. It rides the full Wildcat build: a 2-inch vacuum-bonded aluminum-framed sidewall structure, a one-piece molded fiberglass front cap, a PVC roof membrane with a lifetime warranty, a heated and enclosed underbelly with 12-volt tank heat pads and sectioned ABS armor, and 4-point automatic leveling.

Forest River publishes a 12,033-pound UVW, a 2,062-pound CCC and a 14,095-pound GVWR (the published GVWR equals UVW plus CCC exactly), against a 2,095-pound dry pin. It carries the line’s larger 76-gallon grey and black tanks (matched to its two full bathrooms). A 45,000-BTU three-air-conditioner system, a 35,000-BTU furnace, a 5,000-BTU electric fireplace, a 60,000-BTU tankless water heater, a 16-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, a 21-inch 2-in-1 oven range, a 30-inch over-the-range microwave and a 60-gallon fresh tank are standard, with a 200-watt rooftop solar prep; Forest River does not yet publish an awning size for this plan on the factory floorplan record.

US street pricing has commonly run in the low-to-mid $60,000s. It is the dual-entry, two-bedroom-style family Wildcat. For a multi-generation family that wants a private rear king master and a front bunkhouse suite with two full bathrooms and dual entry doors — towed behind a properly rated three-quarter-ton or larger truck — the 36FUN is the line’s split-bedroom family plan. It is sold as the Cardinal 36FUN under a sister badge.

Wildcat is Forest River's mid-profile affordable-luxury fifth wheel — a step above the brand's own value-mid Arctic Wolf and a step below its premium-mainstream Sandpiper. Six of the most distinct 2026 floorplans are profiled here in full. The 36FUN on this page is highlighted; each other plan links to its own page.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 60-gallon fresh tank is roughly 24% of the 2,062-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 36FUN with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 2,095 pounds is 17% of this floorplan’s 12,033-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 14,095-pound GVWR the 36FUN is towing 2,062 pounds more than its 12,033-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 60 gallons of fresh against 76 grey and 76 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 36FUN sits 21 of 26 in the Wildcat line: 14,095 pounds against a line that runs from 4,759 to 15,498 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Wildcat 37GALLEY is 15 pounds lighter at 14,080 lb GVWR; and Wildcat 35FL is 20 pounds heavier at 14,115 lb GVWR.

Against the 36FUN: the Blackthorn 2990MK is 85 lb heavier and 8 ft shorter; the Cougar 364BHL is 95 lb lighter and 4 ft shorter and sleeps 2 more. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest fifth wheels from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Wildcat floorplans profiled here run 3,489 to 12,698 pounds dry and 23 to 44 feet of exterior length across 26 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Wildcat line hub.

Named sources publish 17 of the 18 specification fields this catalogue tracks for the 36FUN (93% complete on the full field set).

Not published for this floorplan: awning, tire size (a tire description is published, a size is not). Those rows are left blank rather than copied from a sibling floorplan.

Values marked with an asterisk are arithmetic on published figures or come from a single source; the flag travels into the downloadable spec sheet.

Sourcing rules: methodology.