2026 Forest River Cherokee Wolf Pack411STAY

The Wolf Pack 411STAY leaves Forest River's factory at 14,884 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 17,310 lbs and 2,426 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 14% 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 2,426 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Dry pin weight is 3,310 lbs, which is 22% of the dry weight. That figure lands on the truck's rear axle and comes straight off its payload rating - not its towing rating, which is the number most often quoted and the wrong one for this decision. Pin weight rises as the trailer is loaded, and a fifth wheel loaded toward its cargo capacity will put substantially more than 3,310 lbs over the bed. Read the payload figure on your own door sticker rather than a brochure maximum for the model.

Tank capacities are 96 gallons fresh, 88 grey and 88 black, 176 gallons of waste capacity against 96 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 Wolf Pack roster this is the 12th of 12 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 6,253 lbs to 14,884 lbs. It is the heaviest plan in the line, so the tow vehicle should be settled before the floorplan is. 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 14,884 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 16,097 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 17,310 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. 411STAY 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.

A full 96-gallon fresh tank is about 801 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.2), 33% of the 411STAY’s 2,426 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,625 lb. Across 7 Wolf Pack fifth-wheel floorplans the water share runs 16% to 35%, and 1 gives up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Wolf Pack 290PACK13 at 24% and Wolf Pack 397STAY at 35%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.120 S10.4.3).

Closest sibling: the Wolf Pack 352PACK15, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 4 of the 8 fields both publish (this plan first): dry weight 14,884 lb vs 12,768 lb; GVWR 17,310 lb vs 16,745 lb; cargo capacity 2,426 lb vs 3,977 lb; dry hitch weight 3,310 lb vs 2,745 lb. They match on length, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Wolf Pack 350PACK15 is 350 lb lighter (16,960 lb GVWR).

All 12 Wolf Pack floorplans: Wolf Pack line hub.

Against the 411STAY: the Bighorn 36RK is 10 lb lighter and 5 ft shorter; the North Point 365RKTS is 10 lb lighter and 5 ft shorter; the Pinnacle 36KPTS is 40 lb heavier and 4 ft shorter.

11 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 411STAY. Not published: interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning.

Sourcing rules: methodology.