....Before They Grow Up
Hubs and I had a date night tonight and ended up at our favorite place again....Target. :D When you walk into a Target store, there is usually a section of 3 or 4 small rows packed with $1.00 items. Tonight I found a real jewel. It's a little paperback book from Frommer's. I googled this title "100 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up" but all I'm finding is "500 Places..." I think THIS particular little paperback is just a watered down list but what a list it is! I'm not going to get into all the little tips and hints this little book contains but I figured it would be okay to provide you all with the list in the index. If anything, it will give you some summer vacation ideas!
Hubs and I had a date night tonight and ended up at our favorite place again....Target. :D When you walk into a Target store, there is usually a section of 3 or 4 small rows packed with $1.00 items. Tonight I found a real jewel. It's a little paperback book from Frommer's. I googled this title "100 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up" but all I'm finding is "500 Places..." I think THIS particular little paperback is just a watered down list but what a list it is! I'm not going to get into all the little tips and hints this little book contains but I figured it would be okay to provide you all with the list in the index. If anything, it will give you some summer vacation ideas!
Enjoy the list (in no particular order) and feel free to comment back if you have ever been to any of these places.
1. The Grand Canyon, AZ
2. The Redwood Forests of California, Crescent City, CA
3. Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks,Visalia & Fresno, CA
4. Devil's Tower, WY
5. Arches National Park, Moab, UT
6. Petrified Forest & Painted Desert National Park, Holbrook, AZ
7. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, HI
8. Niagra Falls, NY
9. Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Durango, CO
10. The Seattle-Victoria Ferry, Seattle, WA
11. Cruising the Mighty Mississippi, Various locations along the Mississippi River
12. Scouting Alaska's Inside Passage, Juneau, Alaska
13. Boston Common, Boston, MA
14. Escape to Alcatraz, San Francisco, CA
15. Mount Rushmore & Crazy Horse Memorial, Keystone & Custer, SD
16. The Corn Palace, Mitchell, SD
17. Wall Drug, Wall, SD
18. Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, CA
19. Carlsbad Caverns, Carlsbad, NM
20. Assateague Island, VA
21. El Yunque (Puerto Rico's Rainforest), Rio Grande, PR
Famous Bridges
22. Brooklyn Bridge, NY
23. Golden Gate Bridge, SF
Fantastic Aquariums & Zoos
24. Monteray Bay Aquarium, Monteray, CA
25. The San Diego Zoo, CA
26. The Bronx Zoo, NY
27. Dinosaur Valley, Glen Rose, TX
28. La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA
29. Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, IL
30. Canyon de Chelly, Chinie, AZ
31. Puako Petroglyphs, Big Island, HI
32. Concord, Lexington, & Lincoln, MA
33. Remembering the Alamo, San Antonio, TX
34. Gettysburg National Park, Gettysburg, PA
35. Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, HI
36. The International Spy Museum, Washington, DC
37. San Juan Fortress, San Juan, Puerto Rico
38. Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA
39. Williamsburg, Jamestown, & Yorktown, VA
40. Philadelphia, PA
41. The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island, New York, NY
42. Amish Country, Lancaster, PA
43. Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT
44. Stockyards National Historic District, Fort Worth, TX
45. California Gold Rush Country, Hwy. 49 from Nevada City to Angels Camp
46. National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
47. Black Heritage Trail, Boston, MA
48. Dr. King's Legacy, Atlanta, GA
49. Alabama's Civil Rights Trail, Montgomery, Birmingham, & Selma, AL
50. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
51. Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA
52. The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
53. Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, NC
54. National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
55. Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, FL
56. Edison Historic Site, West Orange, NJ
57. Hoover Dam, Boulder City, NV
58. Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
59. Mauna Kea, Hawaii
60. The Cable Car Hills of San Francisco, CA
61. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
62. The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
63. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
64. Graceland, Memphis, TN
65. The Nashville Music Scene, Nashville, TN
66. Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH
67. Hollywood, CA
68. Newport's Mansions, Newport, RI
69. Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA
70. Orchard House, Concord, MA
71. The Mark Twain Home, Hannibal, Missouri
Presidential Homesteads
72. Lincoln Trail, Hodgenville, KY
73. FDR Hyde Park, NY
74. Yosemite, CA
75. The Appalachian Trail, Jump on anywhere from GA to Maine
76. Yellowstone National Park, Cody, WY
77. Nantucket, MA
78. Mackinac Island, Michigan
79. Bicycle the Rim Road, Crater Lake, Oregon
80. Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO
81. Monument Valley, Kayenta, AZ
82. Canoe the Everglades, Everglades, FL
83. Sea Kayak in Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine
84. Apostle Island National Park, Bayfield, WI
85. Swim with a Million Tiny Lights, Vieques, Puerto Rico
86. Biscayne National Park, Homestead, FL
87. St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
88. Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, CA
89. Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
90. Fenway Park, Boston, MA
91. Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
92. Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
93. The Kentucky Derby, Louisville, KY
94. NASCAR Classic, Daytona, FL
95. Ballooning over the Great Red Rocks, Sedona, AZ
96. Denali National Park, Alaska
97. The Cyclone, Brooklyn, NY
98. Millenium Force, Sandusky, OH
99. The Santa Cruz Boardwalk, between Monteray & San Francisco, CA
100. The Mall of America, Bloomington, MN
Happy Traveling!!!
1 comment:
I have been to a couple of these places. Devils Tower was a real treat I wish I had the time to climb it while I was there.
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