Inspiring Families to Get Out and Explore Together
When most people talk about visiting “national parks”, they mean one of the 63 parks in the system that are congressionally designated and have “National Park” after their name.
Generally, when you hear someone say, “Our goal is to visit all the US National Parks,” their goal is those 63 parks.
Bryce Canyon was pretty high up on my bucket list after I did some research for our big road trip. The landscape looked unreal. We ended up in Bryce Canyon for about a day and a half, just after we…
February is coming to a quick close. Have you scheduled your spring break family vacation yet? In case you’re a procrastinator like my husband and I, here are some last-minute family spring break destinations in the U.S. Specifically, in the Southeast U.S. so for you locals, no plane tickets are necessary!
1. Nashville, Tennessee
When we think of a beach vacation in this family, we don’t usually think “Let’s go to Texas!” But last year, Mike surprised me with a family trip for Christmas. Turns out, there are so many fun things to do…
Elephant Rocks is one of our family’s favorite state parks in Missouri. Actually, it’s one of our favorite state parks PERIOD. With massive granite boulders to climb over, around, and through, it’s easy to see why. Elephant Rocks State Park…
Giant City State Park encompasses over 4000 acres in the Shawnee National Forest, near Carbondale, Illinois. It’s one of the most beautiful places to go for a hike in southern Illinois. The name Giant City comes from the massive sandstone…
Did you know that January 31st is “National Plan for Vacation Day”? It’s a day for encouraging people to plan their time off for the year, at the start of the year! It’s celebrated on the last Tuesday of January…
Crater Lake, located in south-central Oregon, is the deepest lake in the U.S. at 1943 feet deep. It’s also the deepest volcanic lake in the world. The lake was formed by a massive volcanic eruption – 42 times bigger than…
Have you ever booked a seemingly awesome place somewhere, only to find out later that there are a bunch of extra fees? Or maybe you arrived and there were no towels- or worse- no toilet paper? To avoid getting stuck…
The U.S. National Parks are some of the most beautiful places in the world. No matter where you’re from, or whether you’ve been to any, you have seen the amazing images of unreal scenery in some of these parks. In…
