Forest RiverXLR Boost

XLR Boost is the hardest of Forest River's toy-hauler rosters to read from the outside, for two reasons. It mixes classes: three published floorplans are XLR Boost travel trailers at 6,758 to 8,393 lb dry with 1,175 to 1,500 lb on the tongue, and three are XLR Boost or XLR Boost X fifth wheels at 9,094 to 13,074 lb dry with 2,090 to 3,220 lb on the pin. And Forest River publishes no GVWR for any of the eleven plans, so the loaded figure that determines whether a given truck can legally tow a given plan is not available from the factory in this channel. Cargo capacity is published, 2,507 to 5,300 lb, and dry weight is published, so what the roster tells you is what the trailer weighs empty and how much it will carry - not what it may weigh when full.

Across the whole XLR Boost roster the published dry weights run from 6,473 lbs to 13,074 lbs, cargo capacities from 2,507 lbs to 5,300 lbs, and dry hitch weights from 1,090 lbs to 3,220 lbs. Exterior lengths run 26 to 43 feet. Those are Forest River's figures for a standard build, captured from the factory roster block and confirmed against each floorplan's own factory page.

There is one thing to know before comparing XLR Boost against anything else: Forest River publishes no GVWR for this line. Dry weight, cargo capacity and dry hitch weight are published for every floorplan; the loaded rating is not. The factory's own glossary defines cargo capacity as GVWR minus unloaded weight, so the rating can be worked out - and a figure worked out is not a figure the manufacturer published, so this site does not print one as though it were. The weight label on the trailer itself carries the real number.

6 of the 11 XLR Boost floorplans are profiled in full below, each on its own page with the complete factory weight, dimension and tank block. The profiled set is spread across the weight range rather than taken from one end of it, so the lightest and heaviest plans in the line are both represented. Every plan profiled here publishes a full field set and, where Forest River publishes a GVWR, passes the dry-plus-cargo arithmetic check.

The remaining 5 XLR Boost floorplans are catalogued here from the factory's published figures. 5 of them are Forest River dealer-stock-only plans, which are real floorplans but are not orderable through the normal channel. A plan is catalogued rather than profiled when the factory has not yet published its full field set, when its own published figures disagree with each other, or simply because the profiled set is capped. Nothing in this table is estimated.

Sort this line by the constraint you actually have. If the tow vehicle is fixed, start at the weight column: the lightest plan in the roster is the 2017B - DSO at 6,473 lbs dry and the heaviest is the 366BX at 13,074 lbs, and that spread is wide enough that the two ends are not the same buying decision. If the tow vehicle is not fixed, sort by cargo capacity instead - the 366BX carries the most at 5,300 lbs, and payload is the number that runs out first on a long trip.

Do not sort by floorplan number. Forest River's codes encode length loosely and layout not at all, and this site does not decode them into layout claims. Two plans with adjacent numbers in this roster can differ by hundreds of pounds of dry weight and by more than that in dry hitch weight, which is the figure that determines what the tow vehicle has to be.

Where Forest River publishes a floorplan description it is quoted on the plan page and identified as factory marketing copy rather than a specification. Where it publishes none, the plan page says so instead of describing a layout that nobody has verified. That is the difference between a catalogue and a brochure.