Meet Mabel—a 2025 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 170 AWD built for families who want to explore without leaving comfort, storage or flexibility behind.
Originally outfitted by Bitterroot Builds in Salt Lake City, then tested and refined through real family travel.
Mabel seats five in proper belted seats: two front seats and three independently positioned captain’s chairs with integrated seat belts and Latch/Isofix connections. Her modular layout can change with your trip, creating more living space, dining space or a large rear garage for bikes, strollers and adventure gear.
At camp, the elevator bed lowers from the ceiling without requiring you to rebuild the entire van each night. A Murphy-style single bed converts into a bench, and the flexible dinette provides additional sleeping and lounging space. When morning comes, raise the elevator bed and your living space returns—without packing away every blanket and pillow.
Mabel was designed for real family travel in every season. She includes rear air conditioning, Under front passenger diesel heat, a large off-grid electrical system, solar power, an indoor kitchen, microwave, induction cooktop, refrigerator and plenty of family-friendly storage. In fact the storage can also change depending on whether you plan for an indoor shower or not. Exterior shower also available. Roof-mounted exterior lights illuminate the slider entrance after dark. Built-in Mercedes-Benz navigation helps when cell service disappears, while SiriusXM keeps the whole family entertained between stops.
We started Mabel Vans after renting and traveling in other vans with our own children. Every trip taught us something: kids need safe seats, families need room for gear, and nobody wants to dismantle the whole van just to go to sleep. Then we had a third child—and we didn’t want to sacrifice adventure simply because our family had grown.
Mabel has already been tested on family road trips through national parks, monuments and everything from mountain weather to Utah desert heat. She is built for families, tested by kid chaos and continually refined on the road.
Whether you’re heading to Utah’s national parks, skiing in the Wasatch, visiting relatives or taking the kids on their first van adventure, Mabel gives you a comfortable, capable home base for the journey.
