2026 Wolf Den / Black Label 273XLK

The Cherokee Wolf Den 273XLK puts the living room across the back. A rear lounge fills the back wall, a kitchen island anchors the galley ahead of it, and the front is a private bedroom — all opened up by two slide-outs. The convertible living-room furniture extends sleeping to four, and a full bath, an outside kitchen and the line's longest awning at 21 feet round out the plan. At 33 feet 7 inches and 7,341 pounds unloaded it is the shortest floorplan in the 2026 Wolf Den lineup — the entry point to a full-size line.

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, a 12-volt refrigerator and an air-fryer convection microwave.

At 7,341 pounds unloaded against a published 9,995-pound GVWR it leaves about 2,654 pounds of cargo capacity — the second-largest margin in the lineup — on the shortest, 33-foot tandem-axle body in the line. This floorplan is also sold as the Cherokee Black Label 273XLKBL, which carries its own factory-published figures: 7,489 pounds unloaded against a 9,985-pound GVWR, with an 830-pound hitch weight and a 33-foot-4 body — close to the base numbers, but not the same numbers. For a couple who wants a rear living room and a kitchen island in the shortest full-size Wolf Den, the 273XLK is the line's entry plan.

How the 273XLK differs from the other five Cherokee Wolf Den floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Length, 33 ft 7 in: shortest of six; next is the 271RK (36 ft 3 in).
• Dry / unit base weight, 7,341 lb: second-lightest of six, between the 294GEBG (7,336 lb) and the 271RK (7,569 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry / unit base weight, 14%: second-largest of six, between the 301BH (13.6%) and the 304SR (14.4%).
• Sleeping capacity, 4: second-smallest of five, between the 271RK (3) and the 306MM (6).
• Cargo capacity, 2,654 lb: third-largest of six, between the 306MM (2,522 lb) and the 294GEBG (2,659 lb).
• Tongue weight, 1,029 lb: third-heaviest of six, between the 271RK (956 lb) and the 301BH (1,073 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 26.6%: shared with the 294GEBG; of six, three smaller and one larger, nearest the 271RK (24.3%) and the 301BH (30%).
• Slide-out count, 2: shared with the 271RK and 301BH; of six, one fewer and two more, nearest the 294GEBG (1) and the 304SR and 306MM (3).

Next to the 294GEBG, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry / unit base weight, the 273XLK is 5 lb heavier by dry / unit base weight, has 5 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 102 lb heavier, is 3 ft shorter, sleeps five fewer and has one more slide-out; the two publish the same GVWR, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 271RK, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry / unit base weight, the 273XLK is 228 lb lighter by dry / unit base weight, has 228 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 73 lb heavier, is 2 ft 8 in shorter and sleeps one more; the two publish the same GVWR, fresh tank, grey tank, black tank and slide-out count.

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 273XLK on this page is highlighted; every 2026 plan links to its own page.

A full 52-gallon fresh tank is about 432 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 16% of the 273XLK’s 2,654 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,222 lb (556 lb per rated berth). Across 6 Cherokee Wolf Den floorplans the water share runs 13% to 43%, and 2 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cherokee Wolf Den 294GEBG at 16% and Cherokee Wolf Den 271RK at 18%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).