2026 Forest River Cherokee Wolf Pack26-13.5

The Wolf Pack 26-13.5 leaves Forest River's factory at 6,688 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 11,315 lbs and 4,627 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 41% 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 96-gallon fresh tank spends 797 lbs of that 4,627 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry tongue weight is 1,115 lbs, or 17% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits above 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 96 gallons fresh, 44 grey and 44 black, 88 gallons of waste capacity against 96 gallons of supply. The ratio is what governs how long the trailer can sit off hookups: waste and fresh are close to matched, so both fill at roughly the same rate. 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 Wolf Pack roster this is the 4th of 12 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 6,253 lbs to 14,884 lbs. It sits in the lighter third of the line. 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 6,688 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 9,002 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 11,315 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 roster block 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. 26-13.5 is a Wolf Pack designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Wolf Pack is the toy-hauler roster inside Forest River's Cherokee family, and it is published as a single list holding two towing classes. Five floorplans are Wolf Pack Limited travel trailers, 6,253 to 8,988 lb dry with 1,115 to 1,490 lb on the tongue. Seven are Wolf Pack Limited fifth wheels, 9,313 to 14,884 lb dry with 2,155 to 3,310 lb on the pin. The lightest fifth wheel is heavier than the heaviest bumper pull, so the two halves do not overlap and nothing on this roster is a borderline call - either a plan needs a bed-mounted hitch or it does not.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 96-gallon fresh tank is roughly 17% of the 4,627-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 26-13.5 with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 1,115 pounds is 17% of the 6,688-pound dry weight — at or above the top of the usual 10–15% band before you load anything. A nose-heavy dry figure eats truck payload directly, so budget the hitch load against your door-jamb sticker rather than against the tow rating.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 11,315-pound GVWR the 26-13.5 is towing 4,627 pounds more than its 6,688-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is worth a look before a long boondocking trip: 96 gallons of fresh against 44 grey and 44 black. Waste capacity is smaller than supply, so on this floorplan the grey tank fills before the fresh tank empties — the drain schedule, not the fill, is what ends the stay.

Of the 8 Wolf Pack floorplans profiled here, the 26-13.5 is the lightest by GVWR at 11,315 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: Wolf Pack 21-14 is 10 pounds heavier at 11,325 lb GVWR.

Against the 26-13.5: the Puma 32BHFS is 7 lb lighter and 7 ft longer; the Longitude 319BH is 20 lb heavier and 6 ft longer; the Reflection 312BHTS is 20 lb lighter and 6 ft longer. 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 Wolf Pack floorplans profiled here run 6,253 to 14,884 pounds dry and 27 to 45 feet of exterior length across 8 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 Wolf Pack line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 11 of them for the 26-13.5. 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, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning. 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 (85%) 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.