2022 Forest River Cherokee Wolf PupTR16TS

The Cherokee Wolf Pup TR16TS leaves Forest River's factory at 3,204 lbs dry with 766 lbs of cargo capacity. Forest River publishes no GVWR for this line, so the loaded rating is not quoted on this page and is not computed from the other two figures. What the cargo number covers is defined by the factory: fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory come out of it. Fresh water is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling the 26-gallon fresh tank spends 216 lbs of the 766 lbs before anything else goes in.

Dry tongue weight is 470 lbs, or 15% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits inside 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 26 gallons fresh, 23 grey and 28 black, 51 gallons of waste capacity against 26 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 Cherokee Wolf Pup roster this is the 1st of 5 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 3,204 lbs to 3,879 lbs. It is the lightest plan in the line, which makes it the one to look at first if the tow vehicle is the constraint. 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 these figures is to stop planning against the dry weight. Nobody tows a trailer at 3,204 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity and this plan is already near 3,587 lbs on the road. Because Forest River publishes no loaded rating for this line, the ceiling has to come from the trailer's own weight label rather than from this page, and the comparison you make against the tow vehicle should use the loaded figure.

Every number above was read from one factory document: Forest River's own 2022 brochure for this line, and each figure was read back against that document's text before it was published. This is a single-channel record rather than the two-rendering cross-check this site runs on factory web captures, and it is described that way rather than dressed up as more. The brochure publishes no GVWR for this line, so the loaded rating is shown as not published and is never computed from dry weight plus cargo capacity. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because the brochure does not publish it, 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. TR16TS is a Cherokee Wolf Pup designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Dry weight runs 3,204 to 3,879 lb and dry tongue weight 335 to 470 lb, which is the whole point of the line: every plan here is inside what a mid-size SUV or a half-ton is normally rated to pull. Cargo capacity is the wide variable and it does not follow weight - 611 lb on one plan against 1,851 lb on another, and the 1,851 lb plan is the second-heaviest of the five. That 611 lb figure is the one to read carefully: a full 26-gallon fresh tank comes out of it before anything is packed. Every plan holds 26 gallons fresh and 23 grey; black is 23 gallons on four and 28 on one. Travel length runs 21 ft 7 in to 23 ft 2 in, exterior height is 10 ft 6 in on all five and width 85 in throughout.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 26-gallon fresh tank is roughly 28% of the 766-pound cargo capacity, leaving the TR16TS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 470 pounds is 15% of the 3,204-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.

Tank balance is generous here: 26 gallons of fresh against 23 grey and 28 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 9 Cherokee Wolf Pup floorplans profiled here, the TR16TS is the lightest by dry weight at 3,204 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: Cherokee Wolf Pup TR16HE is 105 pounds heavier at 3,309 lb dry.

Against the TR16TS: the Jay Flight 175FQW is 14 lb lighter; the Jay Flight SLX 184BS is 14 lb lighter; the Ozark 1620DBLE is 20 lb heavier. 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 Pup floorplans profiled here run 3,204 to 4,311 pounds dry and 22 to 24 feet of exterior length across 9 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 Pup line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 9 of them for the TR16TS. 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: GVWR, interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, awning, 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 (75%) 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.