2026 Wolf Den / Black Label 304SR

The Cherokee Wolf Den 304SR turns the usual layout around: the private bedroom suite goes across the back of the trailer instead of the front, behind the living space rather than ahead of it. Three slide-outs open the mid-ship living area around a kitchen island, the convertible furniture extends sleeping to about six, and a full bath, an outside kitchen and a 12-foot power awning complete the plan. At 38 feet 11 inches on a tandem axle it is the second-longest 2026 Wolf Den, and at 8,989 pounds unloaded it is the heaviest.

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.

The number that defines the base 304SR is its cargo capacity: 8,989 pounds unloaded against a published 9,995-pound GVWR leaves just 1,006 pounds — by far the tightest margin in the 2026 lineup, and 52 gallons of fresh water alone weighs about 430 of it. This floorplan is also sold as the Cherokee Black Label 304SRBL, and there the factory publishes a different rating: 9,120 pounds unloaded against an 11,314-pound GVWR, for 2,194 pounds of cargo capacity — more than double the base margin. A buyer planning to load this trailer should weigh the trim choice as carefully as the floorplan, and weigh the loaded trailer either way. For owners who want a private rear suite and triple-slide living space in a metal-sided value coach, the 304SR is the Wolf Den line's rear-suite plan — with a spec sheet that rewards careful reading.

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 304SR on this page is highlighted; every 2026 plan links to its own page.

Fresh water is the single biggest line in this floorplan’s load plan. A full 52-gallon tank is about 43% of the 1,006-pound cargo capacity — enough that whether you tow with water aboard is a real decision on the 304SR rather than a detail.

The published dry tongue weight of 1,291 pounds is 14% of the 8,989-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 304SR is towing 1,006 pounds more than its 8,989-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.

Ranked by GVWR, the 304SR sits 4 of 6 in the Cherokee Wolf Den line: 9,995 pounds against a line that runs from 9,995 to 11,273 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: Cherokee Wolf Den 294GEBG matches it exactly at 9,995 lb GVWR; and Cherokee Wolf Den 306MM is 1,105 pounds heavier at 11,100 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 304SR: the Campsite Reserve 29TJ is 2 ft shorter; the Cascade 29TEC is 2 ft shorter; the Classic 30RB is 5 lb heavier and 8 ft shorter and sleeps 2 fewer. 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 14 of them for the 304SR. 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: exterior height, exterior width, 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 (92%) 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.

Values on this page carrying an asterisk were derived by arithmetic from published figures, or come from a single source, rather than being printed directly by the manufacturer. The flag travels with the number into the downloadable spec sheet.

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