National Parks
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Visit Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks with kids
My favorite New Mexico hike with kids — or without — is in Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. Tent Rocks mixes all the best things about New Mexico into one hike — unique scenery, history, and adventure. It’s called “Tent Rocks” for the stunning cone-shaped rocks that watch over the canyon. The region has been sacred…
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Favorite National Parks for Toddlers & Little Kids
Boiling geysers. Sheer canyon walls. Raging rivers. Some national parks are just plain terrifying for parents of toddlers. I (mostly) grew up with three calm sisters, so it wasn’t until I had my boys that I realized the terrors of parenting climbing, bounding, running, energetic little daredevils. They were the toddlers that would literally climb…
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Best Things to Do at Devils Tower With Kids
Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming is one of my favorite national monuments in the country. My husband and I fell in love with Devils Tower in 2016, before we had kids. Nearly a decade later, we brought our three kids back, and they fell in love with it too. The indigenous legends behind the…
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Best Things to Do in the Black Hills with Kids
One of our favorite family road trips is our visit to the Black Hills with our kids in 2025. We had a truly epic time, hitting two National Parks, a national monument, national memorial, a state park, and the Crazy Horse Memorial. When I’d tell people that we were taking a big family road trip…
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Best Things to Do in Custer State Park with Kids
Tucked in the Black Hills is a magical oasis of granite spires, pine trees, wildlife, lakes, and adventure: Custer State Park. Any visit to the Black Hills isn’t complete without visiting Custer State Park with kids. The park is home to bison, wild burros, bighorn sheep, and more! And because it’s much cooler than the…
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Best Things to Do in Badlands with Kids
Going to Badlands National Park with my kids was a dream come true! Badlands is one of my favorite National Parks, and an absolute blast with kids. Scaling the badlands. Searching for fossils. Spying bison, prairie dogs, and a coyote. A kid’s dream! My husband and I first visited Badlands National Park in 2016, when…
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Best Things to Do in Hot Springs with Kids
So you want to visit Hot Springs with kids? Hot Springs is a truly unique National Park because it was created to protect a resource: The region’s natural thermal waters. The land was set aside as the Hot Springs Reservation in 1832, decades before Yellowstone became a National Park. (Though reserving the land didn’t mean…
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Best Things to Do at Chiricahua National Monument with Kids
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