re: What are must do travel trips with your kids?

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3. They loved national parks for about 24 hours. The small kids don’t appreciate the splendor of nature and the older kids can’t handle being away from Wi-Fi for more than two days without having a breakdown.

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It’s always best to do things at a kids level and pace, but I disagree with this and my kids all have personal tablets so I understand.

The best family vacations to me are where you can be low stress, no long lines, and spend time together as a family.

There’s no need for constant sensory overload and just because your kid is bored for 5 mins doesn’t mean the day or trip is boring. Part of family vacations is learning to enjoy being together and getting away for both the parents and the kids.

Tablets have memory, we try and get them all 1-2 new series or movies before a trip and then give them some time (so we can have time also) to watch a show or whatever and you don’t need wi-fi.

The best way that I’ve found to experience nature is not about them or you, it’s about finding what you enjoy together and being patient.

Rocky Mountain ski resorts are a great summer vacation. Most have summer kids activities, most have one or 2 lifts you can take to the top to hike around, and most have a state park, national forest, or national park very close to get out into the mountains.

Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge was fun for the kids last year.

We are looking at doing a Mediterranean cruise with our three kids this summer. They will be 9, 7 and 4

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Skip Cades Cove unless you enjoy sitting in bumper to bumper traffic for 5 hours looking at open fields and a few deer.

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this happened to me during thanksgiving once but I was able to go in July and there was no traffic. Saw a mother and 3 cubs walk right in front of my car. Very memorable.

When my kids we little, we made sure to take them to Disney World at different stages of their childhood. We did this because Disney was great for all the stages of childhood. There were things they’d love as preschoolers that later they outgrow and move on to other things Disney had to offer. I was glad my kids got to experience Disney through the different stages of childhood.

Having said that, the Disney my kids grew up with no longer exists for the most part. It’s been taken over by leftists, hellbent on infusing every facet of Disney content with radical leftist ideology and homosexual fetishism. I’m glad my kids got to experience it when it was still mostly pure.

My father would rent houseboats instead of camping. I remember Cumberland Falls (multiple stays) and a lake in Arkansas.

We would swim and fish and occasionally dock in a remote area for a campfire/hotdog/smore roast.

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Knocking them off is knocking them off. I never said don't spend a week in a national park. I said don't make a checklist and "knock things off"

Get a National Parks passport book for each and start knocking them off.

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ok Karen

Dollywood

Camping. Disney (you have to). National parks. Somewhere exotic (anywhere that expands their ideas about the world).

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It snowed on me in Yellowstone in June. They had just opened up Beartooth pass and it had ice on the road. I wouldn’t try it in winter.

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? It's toured via snowcats and snowmobiles Not cars.