Miles per day/hours on the road

super_camper wrote:

Jnccpf wrote:
First let me say I am a newbie when comes to the RV. My wife and I are planning a trip from CT to Yellowstone, but due to limited vacation time, we are going to try to get their as quickly as we can. In your experience, when making a trip like this how many miles a day do you an to drive and how long does it take you? My thought was we could make about 600 or so miles a day doing 12 hour days. That would give us time to take a brake, get gas and perhaps stop at a roadside attraction. I am looking for you real life experiences. Thanks!!

Edit!!! We have two children, 13 and 15.

We have 3 kids and drove to Yellowstone from Ontario a few years ago, our vacation was 3 weeks. We have also driven out west, out east, and to Florida many times. We have about 60,000 miles on our MH now.

I am the only driver and my "sweet spot" for daily distance is 500 miles or about 10 hours. We can usually average 50/miles per hour with an early start, drive 5 hours before lunch and 5 hours after lunch. We occasionally drive 700 miles/day when returning from Florida but could only do this for a single day which is our last day before arriving home.

When we plan our trips I always plan for 500 miles/day and rarely make reservations for the driving days, this allows us to be flexible and drive less or more depending on conditions.

One comment I forgot based on your post, If you plan on 600 miles/day over 12 hours do not expect any time whatsoever for stops at attractions, you will find that meal stops will also have to be brief to maintain this average.