RV and motorhome rentals
One search covers 339 cities across 63 states and provinces. Compare what our rental partners have free on your dates, then book on their site at their price.
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One search covers 339 cities across 63 states and provinces. Compare what our rental partners have free on your dates, then book on their site at their price.
Every vehicle on this site belongs to one of our rental partners. Outwander searches them at the same time, shows what is free on your dates, and hands you to the partner's own site to book. The rental companies pay us, so nothing is added to the price you see.
The two halves of this market work differently, and that shapes what you find. Outdoorsy, RVshare and RVezy list vehicles owned by individuals, so the fleet is varied and pickup is wherever the owner keeps it. Cruise America and Indie Campers run standardized vehicles out of their own depots, which is what makes a one-way trip possible at all. The THL brands (El Monte RV, Mighty and Road Bear RV) work the same way from depots in 12 US cities.
A Class A is built on a bus chassis and runs 23 to 45 feet. A Class C carries the bed over the cab and is what corporate fleets stock most heavily. A Class B is a campervan: van footprint, quicker to drive, less room inside. Travel trailers and fifth wheels are towed, so they only work if you already have a vehicle rated to pull one.
The difference between Class A, B and C has the long version. On the towable side, campers and travel trailers and what a toy hauler is cover the rest.
The nightly rate is the number everyone compares, and it is not the number you pay. Mileage is the line that surprises people most: depot fleets meter it, and a two-week loop runs well into four figures of miles. Campsites are the other one, and they are booked separately from the RV. What a night in an RV park costs has the range.
Fuel follows from the class you picked rather than from the rate. A Class A on a bus chassis and a Class B on a van chassis are not in the same bracket, so the cheaper nightly rate is not always the cheaper trip.
Peer-to-peer owners want their RV back where it started, so one-way rentals almost never come from that side of the market. Depot fleets are the ones that can take a drop-off in another city, and it has to be arranged in advance. Cruise America's depot network makes those trips straightforward.
Our guide to one-way RV rentals works through the version most people choose instead: fly to the region, rent there, drive a loop, fly home. It costs two plane tickets and saves the excess-mileage bill.
From our rental partners: Outdoorsy, RVshare, RVezy, Cruise America, Indie Campers, and the THL brands (El Monte RV, Mighty and Road Bear RV). Outwander does not own or list vehicles. We search them together and send you to the partner's site to book.
No. The rental companies pay us, so what you see is the partner's own price and Outwander adds nothing to it.
Yes. Every search queries the partners at that moment, so the results reflect what is actually free on your dates rather than a cached rate card. If a search comes back empty, it usually means nothing in that fleet is available for those exact dates, not that the location has no RVs. Widening the dates by a day or two is the fastest thing to try.
Four things set the bill: the class, the season, how early you book, and how far you drive. We do not publish a national average, because the spread between a travel trailer in October and a Class A in July is wide enough that the average describes nobody. Each city page below shows the lowest nightly price our partners are returning for that location right now, plus a chart of how the nightly rates on offer there are spread out.
None of them come from us: Outwander adds nothing to the partner's price. The ones that come from the rental are mileage, the cleaning or prep fee, the security deposit, and any generator hours. Mileage is the big one on depot fleets, and our Cruise America promo codes page shows what it works out to on a real trip. Campsites are billed separately by the campground, not the rental company: what a night in an RV park costs has that range.
Class C is the easiest starting point and what corporate fleets stock most heavily: bed over the cab, drives like a large truck. Class A is bigger and built on a bus chassis. Class B is a campervan. Travel trailers need a tow vehicle you already have. The full comparison is in what separates Class A, B and C.
A standard driver's licence covers the RVs on this site. Age is the rule that actually bites: Cruise America rents to drivers 21 and over with a valid licence and a major credit card, while on the peer-to-peer marketplaces the minimum age is set per listing rather than centrally, so it varies from one owner to the next. Read the listing before you book.
It depends which side of the market you book. Depot fleets often meter miles and charge for them, which is why their mileage promotions are usually worth more than a percentage off the nightly rate. On the peer-to-peer platforms each owner sets their own allowance and overage rate. Our Cruise America promo codes page works through what the mileage line is actually worth on a real trip.
The partner does, not us. Outwander is a search layer, so the protection, the deposit and the roadside cover all come from whoever you book with, and they differ between the peer-to-peer platforms and the depot fleets. The terms are on the partner's checkout page before you pay.
Usually only from a depot fleet, and only if you arrange it in advance. Peer-to-peer owners need the vehicle returned to them, so one-way is rare on that side. One-way RV rentals covers the alternatives.
A campervan is a Class B: a van you can park in a normal space, with a bed and a small galley inside. The rest of the RV category is larger, sleeps more, and takes more thought to drive and park. Campervans have their own index at campervan rentals.
339 cities across 63 states and provinces. Each page searches our partners for that location and shows what they have free.
