2026 Wolf Pup 17JW

The Cherokee Wolf Pup 17JW is the only standard wood-frame plan in the line with a slide-out, and it uses it to pack the most beds. A U-shaped dinette rides on the slide, opening the main room; a front bed anchors one end; rear bunks stack the kids or guests; and the convertible dinette adds more sleepers, so nominal capacity reaches eight. A full bath with a tub/shower surround and a galley with a flush-mount cooktop and an oversized dinette round out a layout that stays under 24 feet, and an outside kitchen extends cooking out of doors.

Wolf Pup is Forest River's entry-lightweight, metal-sided line — built on Power Gear frame technology with a Space Saver Rail design, high-impact front metal in place of corrugated metal, a Tufflex PVC seamless walk-on roof and a five-eighths-inch tongue-and-groove plywood floor, riding on the Cherokee Stable Step. Standard equipment runs to an 8,000-BTU air conditioner, a 20,000-BTU furnace, a 200-watt solar panel with a 40-amp controller and a battery disconnect, a tankless water heater, a backup camera, a full-length power awning and an outside kitchen. The optional Black Label package adds frameless tinted automotive glass, gel-coat sidewalls, solid-surface countertops and Thermo-Foil Arctic insulation.

At 4,311 pounds dry against a 5,707-pound GVWR it leaves roughly 1,396 pounds of cargo capacity — reasonable for a trailer that sleeps eight, though a full family load of water and gear will use it up, so weigh the loaded trailer. The tandem-axle, sub-24-foot body tows comfortably behind a half-ton truck. The factory floorplan record does not publish this plan's exterior height, so it is flagged. For a larger family that wants the most beds and a slide-out living area in the Wolf Pup line — a real bunkhouse with a U-dinette slide in a light, affordable package — the 17JW is the line's slide-equipped family bunkhouse.

The Cherokee Wolf Pup is Forest River's entry-lightweight travel trailer — the small, SUV-towable line that sits a step below the Cherokee Grey Wolf. It spans roughly fifteen-plus floorplans for 2026 across three families: full-feature wood-frame travel trailers, a lightweight single-axle "LP" sub-line on the T-9 chassis, and a small toy hauler. The 17JW on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page. The highest-demand layouts are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the line hub.