BUREAU OF RECREATIONAL VEHICLES · EST. 1971 ·

BUREAU OF RECREATIONAL VEHICLES

An Independent Agency · Established Under the National Recreation Survey Act of 1971
Bulletin No. 0003 For Reference Use Only Series: Live Reference Collection First filing by J. Whitaker
Exhibit 2026-TT-003

Forest River Cherokee Wolf Pup 14RKLP

Travel Trailer · Rear Bedroom · Rear Kitchen · Single Axle · Model Year 2026
Documented Specifications
Stock number222052
Length, overall17 ft
Exterior height10 ft 2 in
Exterior width7 ft 6 in
Dry weight2,654 lb
GVWR3,850 lb
Hitch weight350 lb (bumper)
Slide rooms0
Sleeping capacity3 (per manufacturer)
BedQueen, rear
BathFront · tub/shower combination
Outdoor kitchenPresent
Interior fabric“Grand Canyon”
Marketing nomenclature“Wolf Pup”

Curatorial Statement

J. Whitaker, Visiting Documentarian · First filing

The Wolf Pup 14RKLP is seventeen feet long. It weighs two thousand six hundred and fifty-four pounds. It will sleep two adults if those adults like each other a great deal, or one adult and a child, or one adult and a dog who shouldn't be on the bed.

The bed is a queen, in the rear, against the back wall. It is the only place in the unit you can fully stand near. The bathroom is in the front. The kitchen is in the middle. There are no slides. There is nothing to slide out into.

You can tow this unit with a midsize SUV that has the towing package, which is to say a vehicle that will, for the first hundred miles, feel as though it is dragging a small house. After the first hundred miles you will forget it is back there. After the first two hundred miles you will remember it is back there only when you try to back into a campsite, which you will fail to do on the first attempt.

The unit has an outdoor kitchen, which is a small box of stainless-steel components welded to the side of a trailer designed for people who do not, in fact, want to cook indoors. This is the right call. You did not buy this unit to cook indoors.

The interior is upholstered in a fabric the manufacturer has chosen to call GRAND CANYON. The fabric does not resemble the Grand Canyon. The fabric resembles a beige sofa from 1994. The Grand Canyon, it should be said, is also brown.

This unit will get you to the Ozarks. It will get you to Big Bend if you take your time and are not embarrassed to drive forty-five on the grades. It will not get you to Alaska, but you should not be going to Alaska in this anyway.

The 14RKLP is not for the family. It is for the person leaving the family for a week.

— J.W., May 2026

Marginal Note · M. Voss, Director of Research

J.W.: your typology of intended occupants is unsupported by the unit's titular signifier. A wolf pup is, etymologically, an infant. The unit is named for a juvenile predator. The implication — that the unit is intended for nascent or family-stage occupants — runs counter to your conclusion. The Bureau notes the contradiction without resolving it. — M.V.

Reply · J. Whitaker

M.V.: I have met dogs more capable of long-distance towing than the people who buy this trailer believing they will use it for a family. The signifier is marketing. The unit is what it is. — J.W.

Marginal Note · E. Mendenhall

Whitaker, Voss: I have sold seven units like this one in the last calendar year. Six went to couples in their fifties returning to the road. One went to a man whose wife had recently died. I would not, in his case, characterize the unit as having been bought “for the person leaving the family.” Some units are for the person to whom the family has, by other means, already occurred. — E.M.

Reply · J. Whitaker

E.M.: noted. The unit is also for him. — J.W.

File: 2026-TT-003.bull First filing by Whitaker Last revised: 2026-05-19