2026 Forest River Cherokee Wolf Pack27-12.5

The Wolf Pack 27-12.5 leaves Forest River's factory at 8,988 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 11,690 lbs and 2,702 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 23% 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 81-gallon fresh tank spends 672 lbs of that 2,702 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Tongue weight is 1,490 lbs, 17% of the dry weight as published; it rises as the trailer is loaded and counts against the tow vehicle’s tongue-weight and payload limits (tongue weight by size).

Off hookups: 88 gallons of grey and black capacity against 81 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Wolf Pack travel-trailer roster this is the 5th of 5 travel trailers by dry weight, in a line that runs from 6,253 lbs to 8,988 lbs. It is the heaviest travel trailer in the line, so the tow vehicle should be settled before the floorplan is.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 8,988 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 10,339 lbs, and the published GVWR of 11,690 lbs is the limit (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly. A missing row means Forest River does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

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. 27-12.5 is a Wolf Pack designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 27-12.5 differs from the other four Wolf Pack travel trailers. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 8,988 lb: heaviest of five; next is the 26-13.5 (6,688 lb).
• GVWR, 11,690 lb: highest of five; next are the 21-14 and 25-14 (11,325 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 2,702 lb: smallest of five; next is the 26-13.5 (4,627 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 23.1%: smallest of five; next is the 26-13.5 (40.9%).
• Tongue weight, 1,490 lb: heaviest of five; next are the 21-14 and 25-14 (1,125 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 16.6%: smallest of five; next is the 26-13.5 (16.7%).
• Length, 38 ft 6 in: longest of five; next is the 26-13.5 (31 ft 9 in).

Next to the 26-13.5, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 27-12.5 is 2,300 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 375 lb higher, has 1,925 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 375 lb heavier, is 6 ft 9 in longer and has a fresh tank 15 gal smaller; the two publish the same exterior height, grey tank and black tank.

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.

A full 81-gallon fresh tank is about 672 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 25% of the 27-12.5’s 2,702 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,030 lb. Across 5 Wolf Pack travel-trailer floorplans the water share runs 13% to 25%, and this plan’s is the highest. Nearest on that share: Wolf Pack 26-13.5 at 17%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).