2026 Forest River Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label294GEBGBL

The Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label 294GEBGBL leaves Forest River's factory at 7,509 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 9,985 lbs and 2,476 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 25% of the loaded rating, and Forest River's own definition is worth reading before you plan against it: cargo capacity is what remains for fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory. Fresh water alone is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling this trailer's 52-gallon fresh tank spends 432 lbs of that 2,476 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry tongue weight is 889 lbs, or 12% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits inside it as published. Tongue weight is not fixed: it moves with how the trailer is loaded, and weight added ahead of the axles raises it. A weight-distribution hitch is the normal fitment at this tongue load, and the tow vehicle's tongue-weight limit is a separate number from its trailer-weight limit.

Tank capacities are 52 gallons fresh, 38 grey and 38 black, 76 gallons of waste capacity against 52 gallons of supply. The ratio is what governs how long the trailer can sit off hookups: waste capacity exceeds fresh, so the fresh tank is the binding constraint and refilling extends the stay. Forest River publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label roster this is the 2nd of 4 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 7,489 lbs to 9,281 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight. Comparing floorplans inside one line is more reliable than comparing across brands, because every figure here comes from the same factory channel on the same day.

A useful way to read the pair of weights is to stop planning against the dry figure. Nobody tows a trailer at 7,509 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity, which is modest for a family trip, and this plan is already near 8,747 lbs on the road. Compare that number against the tow vehicle, not the dry weight, and leave margin on top of it - the published GVWR of 9,985 lbs is a limit rather than a target.

Every number above was captured twice from Forest River and checked against itself before it was published. The line listing and the individual floorplan page are two separate factory renderings of the same trailer, and this plan's 4 shared figures agree exactly on both. Dry weight plus cargo capacity also equals the published GVWR exactly, which is the arithmetic check this site runs on every profiled floorplan. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because Forest River does not publish it in this channel, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

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. 294GEBGBL is a Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Black Label is Forest River's blacked-out trim tier, and these 4 floorplans are the Wolf Den side of it. They are NOT the base plans under a different name: measured plan by plan against the codes they share, 39 of 40 differ in published dry weight, by a median of 246 lb and up to 1,025 lb, so a Black Label plan tows differently from the base plan whose code it echoes. This group runs 7,489 lb dry to 9,281 lb, on hitch weights of 830 to 1,313 lb. Forest River publishes a GVWR for every one, and dry weight plus cargo capacity equals it exactly on all 4.

A full 52-gallon fresh tank is about 434 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 18% of the 294GEBGBL’s 2,476 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,042 lb. Across 4 Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label floorplans the water share runs 17% to 20%, and 2 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label 273XLKBL at 17% and Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label 306MMBL at 19%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).

Closest sibling: the Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label 273XLKBL, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 4 of the 8 fields both publish (this plan first): length 36 ft 8 in vs 33 ft 4 in; dry weight 7,509 lb vs 7,489 lb; cargo capacity 2,476 lb vs 2,496 lb; dry hitch weight 889 lb vs 830 lb. They match on GVWR, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label 273XLKBL matches it at 9,985 lb GVWR; Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label 304SRBL is 1,329 lb heavier (11,314 lb GVWR).

All 4 Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label floorplans: Cherokee Wolf Den Black Label line hub.

Against the 294GEBGBL: the Campsite Reserve 27MR is 2 ft shorter; the Rockwood & Flagstaff Ultra Lite 2906RL is 4 lb heavier and 1 ft shorter; the Cascade 29TEC is 10 lb heavier.

11 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 294GEBGBL. Not published: interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning.

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