Helpful Tips For An Outback Queensland Road Trip With Kids

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Does the idea of a road trip with kids fill you with excitement or a little bit of dread, or perhaps a bit of both?

Don’t worry, we had the same feeling before we went on our Outback Queensland road trip! The thought of being stuck together in a cramped space for hours on end was a little freaky!

But, we think road tripping is one of the best and most practical ways to travel with your kids and now this is how we travel most of the time.

However, the Outback can present more challenges than your typical road trip, so we’ve decided to list some of our best tips for how to road trip Outback Queensland with kids so you can explore this region and have fun, not nightmares!

Tips For An Outback Queensland Road Trip With Kids

Below are some of our top tips for having an enjoyable road trip with your kids in Outback Queensland. Later in this guide, we’ll share our experience from our road trip and whether we think this region is ideal for a road trip, or not.

1. Pack enough snacks

I can promise you 10 minutes into the trip the kids are going to be whining they’re hungry. Give your kids an individual lunchbox filled with healthy snacks. This helps them get used to planning and making their food last.

Caveat. This does require training so pack extra food in case they gobble it all down at once, which they will do at first. (By the way, don’t give them all the extra food you packed right away. Pretend you don’t have it for awhile, so they absorb the lesson of spacing out food!)

Some of our favourite snacks for road trips are popcorn, fruit, crackers, sandwiches, and choc protein balls. 

Driving times can be up to three hours between cafes and road houses in the Outback so come prepared to keep everyone full and happy.

2. Bring your entertainment

We want you and the kids to do as much roadside gazing as you can, but their (and possibly your) attention span is limited, so bring your entertainment too. The Outback scenery is a gorgeous landscape, but it doesn’t change much.

We train our kids to be good travellers, so they know before we get in the car for any road trip, it’s their responsibility to pack their entertainment packs. 

This includes packing any comfort items like pillows, and their fave teddy or…