Possible with younger children?

One of ours was 6 months old when we took her camping. Make sure you dress them appropriately and avoid sun or wind burn. Camping with young children can be a rewarding experience, but like home you have to keep a close eye on them. Have fun!

Rent a RV for a weekend. See if you like it and if it fits your life style.
It will give you some experience in a RV before you take a trip and you will learn how the systems work.

Don't hesitate to ask questions on the forum, someone will have the answer.
Enjoy your travels.

Not entirely sure about that godlucks10 - we want to be close to national parks so we can minimise drive times and we would like to be able to not be in bigger towns all the way.

Sounds like you'd be happier in a mini van and hotels.

Thanks DutchmenSport - I was curious about dinette, wondered if the width would accommodate the smaller childs seat. We had planned a rough route that has a break every two hours, and more than once staying two nights in the one spot to break it up for them.

If towing a trailer, you use car seats, same as always. If using a motor home, there should be seat belts in the seats, usually the passenger seat and the dinette. If you are doing a rental motor home, they will have seat belts in various locations and a baby car seat / booster seat "should" work just fine by using the seat belt to anchor them down.

About young children and RV adventures! Driving is always hard on kids (of any age, even adults). So put it in your plans to stop very often so they can get out and stretch, move, run, jump and play a few minutes. Once they start crying, going into melt-down mode, you'll be stopping soon anyway. Build lots of stops on your route for just this, letting the kids move!

Once at your campsite, or location for the night, you children are no different there than are at home. Nothing changes! Except they will be more excited and harder to get to bed. But, you are on vacation, so give them slack. The more they play, the harder they will sleep! And yes, they WILL be excited about the RV (whatever type you get), and it will be all new for them too! Let them enjoy the excitement. Yes, this is sometimes hard on Mom and Dad, especially after driving all day, but it's their vacation too! Keep that in mind and everyone will be happy.

People go camping with very young children all the time. We did too, long before we had our first pop-up! Here's our little guy! We slept in the back of the pick-up truck!

This was 1985. He was about 6 months old:



And here he is today (actually about a year ago) ... with his own little boy now!

Fizz, open minded about RV type - campervan/winnebago/trailer - nothing locked down yet, wanted to see advice first. Should add that I worry if kids are perpendicular to the road, they will get car sick?

Yosemite17 wrote:
Hello, seeking some guidance as we have never taken an RV holiday before. We live in Southern California and want to head up the coast (Big Sur and the Redwoods) then across to Yosemite and then back south. But are our kids 1.5 and 4.5 yrs too young? I dont see how to fit a car seat safely in an RV?
Thanks for the help, we would really love to do this so are keen to hear other peoples experiences travelling with littler kids.

I have never RVed with children that young but have tent camped with them. Certainly heard and seen others traveling with them.
As far as the seat belts are concerned I imagine both of the children are using some form of car seat so just strap them in the same manner as a regular car.

Have fun out there!

What kind of RV?
You can be sure it's been done by others.