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Planning a vacation, road trip or camping with your family? Review this list to see what you might want to add to your own packing list.

  • 72 hour kit
  • AC Adaptor
  • Antiseptic hand wash
  • Atlas
  • Baby cereal
  • Baby coat
  • Baby cup
  • Baby food
  • Baby items (if applicable)
  • Baby medications (prescriptions, fever reducer, teething ointment, Etc.)
  • Baby powder / formula
  • Baby spoon
  • Back/day packs
  • Bags, disposable – grocery sack, trash bag, zip loc bag – to put dirty/wet diaper in, dirty clothes
  • Batteries (camera, etc.)
  • Bibs & Burp clothes
  • Blankets (kids, baby, pillows, stuffed animals)
  • Book about the place you are visiting – culture, history, landscape
  • Bottle with water in it - ready to put formula in later
  • Bottles
  • Bowl
  • Caffeinated drinks or pills
  • Calling card for phone calls
  • Camera
  • Camp chairs
  • Cards
  • Carrier or sling
  • Cash
  • Cell phone & chargers
  • Change / coins
  • Changing Pad
  • Cleaning towels/rags
  • Clorox wipes – great for quick clean up
  • Clothes – 2+ change of clothes for baby - sleeper & outfit (and onsies)
  • Clothes/outfits for ALL TRAVELING!!!
  • Clothing appropriate for possible weather changes
  • Coats
  • Coals
  • Cooler
  • Cooler/ice – if you pack pumped milk or other fresh items
  • Coolers
  • Deodorant
  • Diaper rash ointments
  • Diapers - plenty
  • Digital Camera
  • Dinner ingredients
  • Dish Brush
  • Dish Soap
  • Dry Foods (emergency)
  • DVD - portable/player
  • DVDs - kids and adults
  • Eating utensils (plastic)
  • Electronic games
  • Emergency phone names & phone numbers
  • Emergency Road-side Assistant kit
  • Empty (clean) gas can
  • Entertainment for children
  • Extension cord
  • Extra keys to your car
  • Extra Shirt for everyone riding in car (spills, then seeing family/friends, etc.)
  • Favorite items of baby (blanket, toy, stuffed animal)
  • First aid kit, thermometer, etc.
  • Flashlight
  • Flip flops, crocs, rain boots
  • Food
  • Full tank of gas
  • Games
  • Garbage bags
  • Good book
  • GPS system
  • GPS unit
  • Grocery sacks
  • Gum (for when your ears plug up due to changing elevation)
  • Hair Brush
  • Hair clips/pony tail holders
  • Hairdryer
  • Hand sanitizer
  • Hats (sun, warm, fish)
  • Ice
  • Insurance card, auto club, roadside assistance information
  • iPod or MP3 player
  • iPod or MP3 player convertor/adaptor – so you can play the music on your car stereo/speakers
  • Items for your trip (special trip-specific items)
  • Jackets
  • Juice (older child)
  • Kids stuffed animals, toys, etc.
  • Kleenex
  • Lantern
  • List of recommended rest stops & bathroom locations
  • Lotion
  • Lunch ingredients
  • Magazine
  • Make-up
  • Map of park
  • Maps
  • Medical information – list of allergies or medical issues
  • Medications (RX and over the counter)
  • Milk or breast milk, in a smaller cooler with ice (or formula)
  • National or States Park pass
  • National Parks Passport stamping book if visiting a National Park, monument or site
  • Newspaper
  • Pacifiers
  • Packing list (so you return home with what you took)
  • Pajamas (warm)
  • Paper
  • Paper cups
  • Paper Towels
  • Pediatrician’s phone number
  • Pen
  • Phone numbers of family members, emergency contacts
  • Pillows
  • Placemat - for older babies who feed themselves (stick to bottom of table-anti-germ)
  • Plastic bags - for wet clothes, trash, dirty diapers (grocery sacks work well)
  • Pocket knife
  • Power adaptor
  • Prescription drugs
  • Puke bucket
  • Rattle
  • Roadside assistance kit
  • Snack food – for older baby, siblings, and adults
  • Snow scraper, if any chance of snow
  • Socks
  • Suction bulb – for baby nose
  • Sunglasses
  • Sunscreen
  • Sweatshirts or sweaters
  • Teething gel/ointment/rings
  • Tennis shoes
  • Thermometer
  • Tire changing kit, spare tire
  • Tissue
  • Toilet Paper
  • Toiletries
  • Tools for traveling - wrench, screwdriver, hammer, fixing tire equip, etc.
  • Toys
  • Trash bags
  • Travel guide books
  • Travel itinerary, hotel phone number & address, travel plan details
  • Travel pillow
  • Two-way radios
  • Umbrella
  • Underwear, bra, socks, etc
  • Washcloths
  • Water Bottles/Jug
  • Water packs (camelbacks if hiking on trip, etc.)
  • Wet wipes
  • Windshield wiper fluid
  • Work & projects to get caught up (if you are the passenger)
  • Work gloves