Successful Camping With an Infant!

[jordanv]

I announced a couple weeks back that we would be selling our Oliver after having our baby. We also decided that we would take the Oliver for one last spin with our baby for the memories. 

We live in central Louisiana, and our goal was to get to Grayton Beach State Park and Topsail State Park in Florida. The total drive time getting there was about 6-7 hours plus the pit stops we needed to take. 

For our first night though, we stayed in Baton Rouge. We arrived during a tornado watch at 10pm due to weather delays and I set up in the pouring rain. Our baby had a hard time sleeping this night as well and my wife and I decided “NOPE!” We both wanted to cancel the trip.

We decided during lunch the next day to push forward and really give it a try instead of cancelling. 

We are so glad and thankful that we pushed forward. It was one of our favorite and sweetest camping experiences of our life. 

Grayton state park and Topsail state park are incredible locations if you can get a spot. The surrounding area (30A) is also very nice and family friendly with great restaurants, cafes, and breweries.

Our legacy elite II twin layout worked perfectly for us. Our baby slept in one of the twin beds with a rail guard protector I installed, and I slept on the twin bed table area conversion. We will probably look into getting a custom twin bed for this spot and have it set up permanently as we rarely used the table anyway. 

The one issue we did run into is that our baby hates riding in the carseat, which makes a 6-7 hour drive a bit difficult. We solved this by leaving very early in the morning for the drive there and for the drive home. How early? 4AM & 3AM respectively 

We loved the trip so much, we decided we are not going to sell our camper for now and hold onto this to continue making special memories. 

[Mike and Carol]

I think you made a great decision!  Both of our kids RV with their kids.  We’ve camped with our son and family all over Colorado and it’s a great family bonding time and gets the kids out into nature.  I hope this works out for you!  Mike

[SNY SD UP]

I am very happy that you have decided to give it a GO. 

You might want to consider finding some blogs/articles about camping with infants, to see what their experience has been.  And if there is not a lot of information out there, then maybe you should share your experiences in blogs/articles with pictures, like you have done with us.  

Enjoy your time together, and keep the pics coming.

Bryan

[Frank C]

Congratulations on the new addition to the family! 

[TexasGuy]

How exciting for you and sure you’ll make some great memories.   Lucky kid ! As mine got older car rides also became easier.    

[Nancy K.]

This couple is traveling with a baby and has some good videos.  We met them at a campground in New Hampshire.  https://www.youtube.com/@Wanderlocal

[jordanv]

1 hour ago, Nancy K. said:

This couple is traveling with a baby and has some good videos.  We met them at a campground in New Hampshire.  https://www.youtube.com/@Wanderlocal

This is a great resource. Thanks!

[AlbertNTerri]

Great Pictures, Thanks for sharing!! Glad you chose to stick it out, the memories will last a lifetime!!

[Sparklite]

We travel in our Elite 1 with an (almost) 2 year old.  

Florida state parks are some of the best.  

We stayed in Henderson Beach State park last year, and have reservations  at Dr. Julian G. Bruce St. George Island State Park this coming summer.  

[Patriot]

Great photos, Great news! Beautiful family! Glad you are hanging on to your Ollie!
Keep those fun family camping memories going! 👍🏻😊

-Patriot 🇺🇸

[jordanv]

7 hours ago, Sparklite said:

We travel in our Elite 1 with an (almost) 2 year old.  

Florida state parks are some of the best.  

We stayed in Henderson Beach State park last year, and have reservations  at Dr. Julian G. Bruce St. George Island State Park this coming summer.  

That’s awesome! Where are you based?

[SeaDawg]

I'm all smiles reading these posts.

Our adult daughter grew up camping and sailing and traveling  with us. It wasn't always easy, but she tells us now that her life was so very  enriched with all our trips.

Have fun, and I'm personally really happy that you're introducing your adorable little one to the great outdoors, from the get-go. 

PS, we potty trained our daughter on the boat. She'd probably be embarrassed with this post 😄, but, you know, it is what it is. And, it's a great memory... The smaller toilet was less intimidating to her, I think.

[John and Debbie]

Our three kids always enjoyed camping when they were growing up.  We tented initially then moved up to first a used pop up trailer, then a new pop up.  I am looking forward to taking our grandson camping with our LE2.  He just turned one so it won't be immediately.

John