Spring break is a great time for families to escape the winter blues and take advantage of cheap airplane tickets and discount hotel rooms or cheap vacation packages to create lifelong family memories.
The opportunities are endless, whether heading to the beach, desert, city, or ski slopes. Spring break is a great time for families to enjoy some togetherness.
The following are some fun family vacation ideas:
Enjoy the beaches and visit tigers, lions, leopards, and other endangered big cats in Clearwater, Florida. Additional nearby destinations worth checking out include visiting the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, and the underwater observatory in Homosassa Spring Wildlife State Park where huge elephant like manatees swim right up to visitors.
Go biking and ballooning in Moab, Utah. Hiking is easy over the areas many paved and smooth ground trails. Three kinds of dinosaur footprints can be found at the Copper Ridge Sauropod Tracksite trail. Consider soaring over the canyons and dunes in a balloon.
Enjoy snow sports in Mammoth Lakes, California. Spring brings warmer temperatures which makes it one of the best times of the year to teach small children and adult beginners to ski.
Check out ziplining and dogsledding in northern New Hampshire. Bretton Woods Canopy Tours or Alpine Adventures offer ziplining through the trees (clip onto a cable and slide 1,500 feet while 200 feet above ground). At muddy Paw Sled Dog Kennel children and adults drive a rolling ten dog dogsled with knobby mountain bike style tires.
Look into visiting Virginias historic triangle. See what it was like for the first European settlers at a recreated village of Jamestown. At a simulated Powhatan Indian village kids grind corn and try scraping out a dugout canoe using oyster shells. At Colonial Williamsburg the family can stomp on clay to help make bricks like in olden time.
Learn to be a cowboy in Wickenburg, Arizona where ranch programs for 5 to 12 year olds include swimming, scavenger hunts, tennis lessons, marshmallow roasts and for kids over 7 horseback riding with professional wranglers. Parents can ride the range, herd cattle, play golf or just take it easy at the spa.
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