Best Vacations For Kids
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Snowbird is just a half hour drive from Salt Lake City in beautiful Little Cottonwood Canyon.
The location and its proximity to major transportation routes make Snowbird Resort accessible and an excellent vacation idea for a weekend getaway.
There’s a long list of fun things to do for the kids. ATV riding is popular including guided tours of Mineral Basin and American Fork Canyon. There are lots of mountain trails for hiking, mountain biking and scooters.
Ride the Aerial Tram up 11,00 feet to the top of Hidden Peak. Try the mining sluice and pan for real gold and gemstones.
Take a 30mph zipline ride from the top of Chickadee down the 1,000 foot zipline to Snowbird Center.
Their Peak 2 Peak Alpine Experience features scenic walks with gondola and open-air chairlift rides. At the Adventure Zone you can spin on the human gyroscope, bounce and flip on the Bungy Trampoline, kid-friendly rock climbing, mini golf paradise, spiderweb climbing for kids and more.
Take an Ecology Tour and visit a bear den in the coastal hemlock-cedar forests. Enjoy an incredible family meal at the 6,000 foot high mountain-top BBQ experience at the Roundhouse Lodge on Whistler Mountain.
Whistler Blackcomb’s Mountain Bike Park has over 4,900 vertical feet of trails that can accommodate kids of all skill levels.
The Adirondack Mountains provide an idyllic and scenic setting. In winter there’s alpine skiing, bobsledding, cross country skiing and dog sled rides. Summer brings hiking, fishing, horseback riding and biking.
Lake Placid, Mirror Lake and Saranac Lake where you can rent a boat at the marinas. Tour the six million acre Adirondack Park on the of the Adirondack Scenic Railroad.
Special train excursions are fun like the murder mystery train trip, the train robbery excursion and the kids really enjoy the magical Polar Express trip to see Santa Clause at the North Pole.
Paragliding is a big draw here. You can watch enthusiasts as they leap off the top of Aspen Mountain. If you are feeling adventurous you can join in and take a tandem flight. Kids as young as three can try it.
The ponds, lakes and rivers around Aspen are great for kayaking. Whether you want the thrills of a rushing river or the quiet stillness of floating in a pond, you will find a spot for family kayaking.
Blazing Adventures offers all these kayaking adventures with guides to provide maximum enjoyment and safety. Another vacation activity the kids will enjoy is a mine tour. There are two old mines in the area where you can go down into the cave-like mine and tour the maze of tunnels.
The Caves Branch Adventure Company & Jungle Lodge is an exciting and rustic place with thatched bungalows and open air showers. Cave diving and jungle adventures are there specialty as well as kayaking, mountain biking and horseback riding.
They also offer cave tubing where you slap on headgear with a lamp and ride an inner tube down an underground river. These Belize adventure trips are all designed with kids in mind and the guides are trained to handle the needs of families.
Another fun activity offered by Caves Branch is a trip to the Black Hole Drop. You hike through the jungle and then rappel down into the 280-foot deep sinkhole called Black Hole Drop.
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