2026 Wolf Den / Black Label 271RK

The Cherokee Wolf Den 271RK puts the kitchen across the back of the trailer. A full rear galley runs the back wall with generous counter space, a large sink, a flush-mount cooktop, a microwave and a 10-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator; a slide-out opens the mid living area with a jackknife sofa and a booth dinette, both of which convert to extra berths; and the front is a private bedroom with dual wardrobes and overhead storage. A full bath with a foot-flush toilet, a tub and shower and a vanity serves the unit, and an outside kitchen extends cooking out of doors.

Wolf Den is Forest River's large-format Cherokee value line — built on Power Gear frame technology with a Space Saver Rail design, high-impact front metal in place of corrugated metal, an aerodynamic smooth-radius front, a Tufflex PVC seamless walk-on roof, an armored underbelly and a five-eighths-inch tongue-and-groove plywood floor, riding on the Cherokee Exclusive Stable Step. Standard equipment is full-size: a 15,000-BTU air conditioner, a 30,000-BTU furnace, a 200-watt solar panel with a 40-amp controller and a battery disconnect, a backup camera, a tankless water heater and an air-fryer convection microwave. The optional Black Label package adds frameless tinted automotive glass, gel-coat sidewalls, solid-surface countertops and Thermo-Foil Arctic insulation.

At 7,569 pounds unloaded against a published 9,995-pound GVWR it leaves about 2,426 pounds of cargo capacity — comfortable for a couple's water, food and gear in a trailer of this size — and the tandem-axle, 36-foot body needs a capable half-ton or larger tow vehicle rather than an SUV. The rear-kitchen layout trades a rear lounge for a serious galley, which suits cooks but means the living-room seating doubles as the dinette and the only convertible sleeping space. For two travelers who want a full kitchen and a private front bedroom in an affordable, metal-sided full-size trailer, the 271RK is the Wolf Den line's rear-kitchen couples' coach.

The Cherokee Wolf Den is Forest River's large-format value travel trailer — a full-size, family-and-couples line in the Cherokee division, separate from and bigger than the entry Wolf Pup. The 2026 lineup is six floorplans from roughly 33 to 40 feet, all built on the same metal-sided Cherokee stick-and-tin recipe with 12-volt residential equipment, and each is also sold as a Cherokee Black Label trim with its own factory-published weights. The 271RK on this page is highlighted; every 2026 plan links to its own page.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 52-gallon fresh tank is roughly 18% of the 2,426-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 271RK with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 956 pounds is 13% of the 7,569-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 9,995-pound GVWR the 271RK is towing 2,426 pounds more than its 7,569-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 52 gallons of fresh against 38 grey and 38 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 6 Cherokee Wolf Den floorplans profiled here, the 271RK is the lightest by GVWR at 9,995 pounds — the entry point to the line and the one most likely to suit a vehicle already at its limit.

Either side of it in the same line: Cherokee Wolf Den 273XLK matches it exactly at 9,995 lb GVWR.

3 other Cherokee Wolf Den plans share this floorplan’s 9,995 lb GVWR, so the ranking above separates plans that tow to the same ceiling. On a shared chassis the figure that actually differs between them is cargo capacity and where the weight sits, not the rating.

Against the 271RK: the Puma Ambush 27TH is 2 ft shorter. 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 travel trailers 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 Cherokee Wolf Den floorplans profiled here run 7,336 to 8,989 pounds dry and 34 to 40 feet of exterior length across 6 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 Cherokee Wolf Den line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the 271RK. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: interior height, tire specification. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (95%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.