One year ago, we made a commitment to the van life community. Not just to create a platform around the lifestyle, but to actively put life-changing prizes into the hands of the people who live it, dream about it, and are working toward it every single day. Twelve months later, that commitment has delivered in ways that have turned everyday van lifers and adventure seekers into winners who drove away with vans, cash, and gear that changed the direction of their lives.

One Year of VanLife. One Mission. One Community That Keeps Growing.

Vanlife.us was built around full-time van life, weekend van camping, van builds, road trips, off-grid living, and the pursuit of freedom that comes with putting everything you need into a vehicle and heading toward the horizon.

The mission from day one has been to give the van life community access to prizes worth winning, build a platform worth trusting, and grow something that gives back to the people who make this lifestyle what it is and it will never change.

Every giveaway we've run over the past twelve months has been built around that mission. Real vehicles. Real cash. Real gear. And real people just like you who entered, who stayed in the community, and whose lives look different today because of it.

We couldn't be happier to be a part of your Van Life.

Let's Think Back to Previous Prizes Won By Real VanLifers

From the very first giveaway to the one running right now, we've put real vehicles into the hands of real people. Vans that drove out of giveaways and into people's lives.

Here is every vehicle vanlife.us has awarded since day one.

1972 Blue VW Westfalia

2025 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter

1963 VW Kombi Camper

"Boys With The Bus" School Bus

1976 Westfalia Mango Van

1978 Volkswagen Camper Van 

Winners Who Had Life Changing Stories After Entering VanLife Giveaways

The most important thing about any sweepstakes platform is not the prizes on the page — it is the winners who actually received them. Over the past twelve months, vanlife.us has produced real winners whose stories are the proof behind every giveaway the platform has ever run.

Andrej M from Missouri became the winner of "Bubbles," a 1972 Blue VW Westfalia that has become one of the most recognizable prizes in vanlife.us history. When the call came, Andrej's reaction said everything: "I was not expecting this today. This is absolutely amazing. Thank you." A classic Westfalia van going to someone who genuinely did not see it coming.

Brianna W from Maine won the 2025 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter alongside a $5,000 cash prize — a combination that gave her not just the van but the runway to actually start living in it. Her words after winning captured exactly what the vanlife.us mission is built around: "This is so amazing. We've been wanting to do van life and be nomads for years now. You have just made our dreams come true." That right there is the reason vanlife.us exists.

Hunter V from Alabama won the 1963 VW Kombi Camper and could barely contain himself when the news landed. "I told my brother two hours ago that I was going to win this van," he said — and then he did. A vintage Kombi going to someone who called it before it happened is the kind of story that makes this community impossible not to love.

Alfred L from Alabama took home the "Boys With The Bus" school bus conversion in one of the most celebrated giveaways in vanlife.us history. Alfred and his crew were flown out to Utah for the handover — a moment that made the win feel as big as it actually was. "Can't believe we won this," Alfred said. "Just being flown down to Utah sounds pretty awesome." A school bus, a road trip to collect it, and a crew that earned every mile of it.

Rosie D from Illinois won the beloved 1976 Westfalia Mango Van and woke up a van lifer in the truest sense of the word. "I don't think I've ever been better. I have been pinching myself all morning," she said after the announcement. The Mango Van had already developed a following within the vanlife.us community before it was won — and Rosie gave it the ending it deserved.

Vic from Louisiana won the 1978 Volkswagen Camper Van — the Kiwi Van — in a moment so surreal that even her mom did not believe it. Vic's reaction upon finding out she won was pure, unfiltered disbelief, the kind that only happens when something genuinely changes your life. "WOW I WON THE VAN!" says everything that needs to be said about what this win meant to her.

Every vanlife.us winner is proof that this works. When you see a real person post about the van they just won, or read the announcement that a member from your state just took home $20,000 alongside a vehicle that would have taken years to save for, it also makes means that you can also win. 

Why the Van Life Community Choose Vanlife.us

In a space full of van life content, van life products, and van life inspiration, vanlife.us sits in a category of its own because it gives back in a way that nothing else in the van life space does. Let's be direct about why the community has grown around this platform as fast as it has over the past twelve months.

• Every prize vanlife.us has given away has been chosen because it fits the actual life van lifers are living or working toward. Cargo van builds. Vintage VW buses. Solar setups. Cash for the road. Specific things that van lifers would need to begin or support their van life adventures.

• Vanlife.us is a platform built by people who understand van builds, van life travel, off-grid living, and the full-time van life lifestyle. That shows in every giveaway, every partnership, and every piece of content that comes out of it.

• We tend to use our platform to support trusted nonprofits in the country trying to make the world a better place. The National Breast Cancer Foundation partnership is the most visible example of us doing that.

• Every giveaway has published entry deadlines, winner contact timelines, and announcement dates. Every winner has been selected and notified on schedule. The track record of the past twelve months is the best argument for trusting the next twelve.
  
  

Join the Current Giveaway

You found this page for a reason. Maybe you are deep in the van life research phase. Maybe you are already on the road and looking for a community. Maybe you've been following van life content for years and the Pink VW Bus stopped you cold and you need to know more.

Whatever brought you here, we want you to know that this is real. The prizes are real. The winners are real. And your chance to win is real.

Right now, the Pink VW Bus Giveaway is live and accepting entries. One winner will receive a limited edition custom, one of only 50 ever built, Pink VW Bus along with $20,000 in cash.

Here is how to enter:

• Head over to the giveaway and choose how many entries you’d like. Becoming a member offers tons of exclusive gifts and monthly entries.

• Entries close at 11:59 PM PST on June 10th, 2026. Do not wait. Entry deadlines on vanlife.us are firm and the window does not extend.

• The winner will be contacted directly on or around June 17th, 2026. If you win, vanlife.us reaches out to you personally before any public announcement.

Every entry in the Pink VW Bus Giveaway supports the National Breast Cancer Foundation and their life-saving work connecting women to mammograms, patient navigation services, and community support.

What entering does for you beyond this giveaway:

When you join the vanlife.us community, you become part of the platform that has been giving back to van lifers for twelve straight months and is not slowing down. Future giveaways are already in development. Future partnerships are coming. Future winners are going to come from this community and the only way to be one of them is to be in it.

Van life is about showing up and joining the community for the moments that make the lifestyle worth everything it asks of you. We spent the past year showing up for this community in the most tangible way a platform can. Now it is your turn to show up for yourself.

Enter the giveaway now at vanlife.us.

Share this with your van life crew, your road trip partner, your build group, and everyone in your network who deserves to know that this is real, this is legal, and this is worth entering. The road has a way of rewarding people who take the opportunity when it is in front of them.

This one is right in front of you.