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RV Rental - Baton Rouge to Vermont Next Fall
Posted on 10/23/25 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 10/23/25 at 9:14 pm
Does anyone have any recommendations for RV rental around Baton Rouge? We'd like to take our two kids on a road trip next fall. Better to rent from a dealer or RV sharing site? Any must sees or stopping points for camping along the route?
We are also thinking of doing a quick trip to a campsite in/around Louisiana before just to see how the kids do.
We are also thinking of doing a quick trip to a campsite in/around Louisiana before just to see how the kids do.
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Posted on 10/24/25 at 11:40 am to justinking042
quote:between Baton Rouge and Vermont?
Any must sees or stopping points for camping along the route?
yes there are must sees and stopping points along your 1600 mile route. need to narrow that down a bit.
Posted on 10/24/25 at 2:22 pm to justinking042
Rv share and Outdoorsy are like Touro for RVs you rent from people.
Posted on 10/24/25 at 4:34 pm to justinking042
Mammoth Cave National Park.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:02 am to justinking042
How many days do you have? I would suggest flying to the northeast and RVing from there. It will be a fun drive up with all the excitement but the drive back will likely be forgettable. There’s a ton to see in New England, enough for months and months of RV time.
We rented an RV from Florida to the Grand Canyon and it was great, but when I do it again I’ll fly a good part of the way and just explore without having to drive and drive.
We rented an RV from Florida to the Grand Canyon and it was great, but when I do it again I’ll fly a good part of the way and just explore without having to drive and drive.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 8:38 pm to justinking042
You're at the mercy of the market but there are sites like Imoova that will pay you to take an RV from one location to another. You're basically relocating it for them and they give you gas money for your trip.
Need to have some flexibility but, if it works for your schedule its a cool, cheap way to RV.
Imoova
Need to have some flexibility but, if it works for your schedule its a cool, cheap way to RV.
Imoova
Posted on 10/27/25 at 11:11 pm to justinking042
Holy fuk dude. That’s quite an undertaking for newbies.
Posted on 10/28/25 at 9:39 am to baldona
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I would suggest flying to the northeast and RVing from there
i second this. Vermont, Maine, Mass, New Hampshire can fill up an entire trip and leave lots let to be seen
Posted on 10/28/25 at 11:21 am to jamiegla1
A couple things to remember. RV's don't get good gas mileage, most in the 6-12 MPG range. Unless you have a nicer one, you also are likely going to be closer to 65mph on the interstate. Its possible to make up time by not stopping as often with food and a bathroom on board but you'll generally be slower. So that 10 hour road trip by car is normally going to be 12 by RV. Not necessarily a bad thing, I'm simply saying an RV makes a 3-5 hour drive easier for a family but a longer drive is normally made longer.
Yes plenty of them can go 70+ on the interstate, but not necessarily plenty of the ones you can rent.
Yes plenty of them can go 70+ on the interstate, but not necessarily plenty of the ones you can rent.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:47 am to justinking042
I'll give my 2 cents on RV travel since you didn't get much help here.
We took a trip out west in an RV 2 years ago. Awesome trip, awesome experience, great time with the kids.
We booked through Cruise America. At the end of the day, they were the cheapest, and you know that you'll get 24hr service from them.
There are 3 main factors that comes with the cost of renting an RV:
1. whatever the nightly fee is for however many days you're renting. You can probably expect $100/nt or so.
2. extra mileage cost. This is a big one. make sure you pay attention to how many miles are included, and how much per mile is it when you go over. It should be around .35/mile, and if it's anything more .50/mile, then that's not who you should be renting from. You'll find it can be all over the place on the rv sharing sites. And i get it from some of them, as they don't want you putting a bunch of miles on their RV so they may charge $1/mile, which just means that they want you renting their RV and using it locally.
If you're driving from LA to Vermont, you should expect it to cost another $1000 give or take a few hundred for the extra mileage.
3. whatever they claim you're goign to get in gas mileage, you might as well just cut it in half almost. If they claim 12mpg, you'll probably get 6-8mpg depending on the terrain.
If you're going to cover 3000 miles, at 8mpg, at $3/gallon, you're going to spend over $1000 in gas.
So when you go look on sites and the first thing you see is it's about $1,000 for 10 nights to rent an RV, know that it's really about $3,000, and you haven't even started looking at campsites yet.
Regarding campsites, there's plenty of sites throughout this country that are nice, and nothign like what you expect from crappy sites in LA.
Read reviews and make sure they have warm water showers, that work. I can promise you you'll rather shower at the campsites then in your RV.
Make sure if the sites you stay at have electrical hookups and if they are 30 amp and/or 50 amp, whichever fits your RV. Make sure you stay at places where you can dump your shite. You don't need to do that every single day, but i wouldn't go more than 2-3 days without dumping. Know that if you stay somewhere that doesn't have electrical, then you're going to be running your generator at night, and you're going to get charged when you use the generator by whoever you rent from. And there are some places that don't want people running generators at night.
If there's a pull through option, that's what you want. backing up an RV isn't fun.
Know how long the RV you're renting. You'll notice when renting sites there may be restrictions on length for certain spaces. Know how tall your RV is as well. When you get off the interstate you might have to pay attention to low overpasses, unlikely but you should still know just in case.
I'd start planning my trip now and start looking into campsites to book. Some places are more popular than others and can book up well in advance.
One of the nice things about renting through Cruise America was that there wasnt' a TV in the RV. We played cards and board games every night, and it was nice to not have tvs or phones for the trip.
When we rented, I chose to drive to Dallas first, and rent from there instead of renting from Baton Rouge. Saved me $1300 to do that, which is ridiculous. I would have much rather packed everything at home instead of packign up the truck and then driving to Dallas and packing up the RV there and then having to leave my truck at a crappy place for a week. But i'm cheap.
You might want to look into renting from Atlanta. There's not a damn thing to see from BR to ATL anyway, and if you can save $1500 by doing so, i'd consider it. The scenery from ATL to Vermont will be much better.
all in all, my wife and kids were skeptical of taking this long RV trip, but it's without a doubt the best vacation we've ever been on, and they've been asking to do another one. It's a lot of planning and work to get your schedule right, but it's worth it.
We took a trip out west in an RV 2 years ago. Awesome trip, awesome experience, great time with the kids.
We booked through Cruise America. At the end of the day, they were the cheapest, and you know that you'll get 24hr service from them.
There are 3 main factors that comes with the cost of renting an RV:
1. whatever the nightly fee is for however many days you're renting. You can probably expect $100/nt or so.
2. extra mileage cost. This is a big one. make sure you pay attention to how many miles are included, and how much per mile is it when you go over. It should be around .35/mile, and if it's anything more .50/mile, then that's not who you should be renting from. You'll find it can be all over the place on the rv sharing sites. And i get it from some of them, as they don't want you putting a bunch of miles on their RV so they may charge $1/mile, which just means that they want you renting their RV and using it locally.
If you're driving from LA to Vermont, you should expect it to cost another $1000 give or take a few hundred for the extra mileage.
3. whatever they claim you're goign to get in gas mileage, you might as well just cut it in half almost. If they claim 12mpg, you'll probably get 6-8mpg depending on the terrain.
If you're going to cover 3000 miles, at 8mpg, at $3/gallon, you're going to spend over $1000 in gas.
So when you go look on sites and the first thing you see is it's about $1,000 for 10 nights to rent an RV, know that it's really about $3,000, and you haven't even started looking at campsites yet.
Regarding campsites, there's plenty of sites throughout this country that are nice, and nothign like what you expect from crappy sites in LA.
Read reviews and make sure they have warm water showers, that work. I can promise you you'll rather shower at the campsites then in your RV.
Make sure if the sites you stay at have electrical hookups and if they are 30 amp and/or 50 amp, whichever fits your RV. Make sure you stay at places where you can dump your shite. You don't need to do that every single day, but i wouldn't go more than 2-3 days without dumping. Know that if you stay somewhere that doesn't have electrical, then you're going to be running your generator at night, and you're going to get charged when you use the generator by whoever you rent from. And there are some places that don't want people running generators at night.
If there's a pull through option, that's what you want. backing up an RV isn't fun.
Know how long the RV you're renting. You'll notice when renting sites there may be restrictions on length for certain spaces. Know how tall your RV is as well. When you get off the interstate you might have to pay attention to low overpasses, unlikely but you should still know just in case.
I'd start planning my trip now and start looking into campsites to book. Some places are more popular than others and can book up well in advance.
One of the nice things about renting through Cruise America was that there wasnt' a TV in the RV. We played cards and board games every night, and it was nice to not have tvs or phones for the trip.
When we rented, I chose to drive to Dallas first, and rent from there instead of renting from Baton Rouge. Saved me $1300 to do that, which is ridiculous. I would have much rather packed everything at home instead of packign up the truck and then driving to Dallas and packing up the RV there and then having to leave my truck at a crappy place for a week. But i'm cheap.
You might want to look into renting from Atlanta. There's not a damn thing to see from BR to ATL anyway, and if you can save $1500 by doing so, i'd consider it. The scenery from ATL to Vermont will be much better.
all in all, my wife and kids were skeptical of taking this long RV trip, but it's without a doubt the best vacation we've ever been on, and they've been asking to do another one. It's a lot of planning and work to get your schedule right, but it's worth it.
Posted on 11/2/25 at 6:28 am to justinking042
Millers RV
Me, wife and pup recently did a trip to that area in our Class B van it was 4500 miles and about a month long.
First stop was in Hershey Pa (there's an amusement park only open on weekends at that time of year). Then we went to Amish area of Pa.
Enter Vermont in Bennington and follow route 100 to Stowe. Plenty state parks but all are dry camping with nice restroom/showers. We stayed at a few along with some nights in the national forest.
We headed to the Lake Willougby area before heading to the white mountains of New Hampshire. We took a short trip into Maine before getting on the kancamagus highway in New Hampshire heading west back into Vermont.
We headed north to Burlington before heading to a group of island in Lake Champlain. We then cut across NY to Niagara Falls.
We followed along Lake Erie to Cleveland before heading south to Hocking Hills State Park
Plenty of outdoor activities - hiking and biking, farm tours, historical sites and quaint small towns. He did the Ben & Jerry's tour it was nice but a lot of weird people work there.
Campgrounds average around 70/night and gas about 3.50/ gallon
RV rental will be spendy
Me, wife and pup recently did a trip to that area in our Class B van it was 4500 miles and about a month long.
First stop was in Hershey Pa (there's an amusement park only open on weekends at that time of year). Then we went to Amish area of Pa.
Enter Vermont in Bennington and follow route 100 to Stowe. Plenty state parks but all are dry camping with nice restroom/showers. We stayed at a few along with some nights in the national forest.
We headed to the Lake Willougby area before heading to the white mountains of New Hampshire. We took a short trip into Maine before getting on the kancamagus highway in New Hampshire heading west back into Vermont.
We headed north to Burlington before heading to a group of island in Lake Champlain. We then cut across NY to Niagara Falls.
We followed along Lake Erie to Cleveland before heading south to Hocking Hills State Park
Plenty of outdoor activities - hiking and biking, farm tours, historical sites and quaint small towns. He did the Ben & Jerry's tour it was nice but a lot of weird people work there.
Campgrounds average around 70/night and gas about 3.50/ gallon
RV rental will be spendy
This post was edited on 11/2/25 at 7:34 am
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