Eastern U.S.

Tulip Festivals - fun family getaways

Find fields of color – tulip, daffodil, and buttercup. Here are a few spring flower festivals to enjoy with your family on a weekend family travel getaway. Enjoy! Remember your camera and take lots of photos. Share them with us at Family Travel Journals.

Catch The Polar Express to Christmas

All aboard... for an enchanted Christmas family adventure on a Polar Express Train Ride, departing from a train station near you. Bring to life the children's classic, "The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg. Find a Polar Express train ride near you...

Fall - a season of celebration

Fall is a wonderful time of the year with its show of awesome colors... sounds of children’s laughter amid the rustle of fallen leaves, cold nipping at pink noses and cheeks, and the aroma and taste of hot apple cider--the season delights all the senses. There are many ways to celebrate fall...

Unique Family Thanksgiving Adventures

Put an educational twist on Thanksgiving this year. Gather the family and visit a living museum with all the trimmings of a traditional New England Thanksgiving.

Pumpkin Patches Galore!

The rural fields have erupted in a rash of orange... for acres... it’s a pumpkin patch! Here are some 30 pumpkin patches located across the U.S. and Canada. Pick one near you and take the kids on a romp through a full day of family excitement...

New Jersey Shore Resorts

Linda shares her family-fun-finds in New Jersey's shore towns of Ocean Grove and Wildwood. Step back into time to a more quaint, nature-oriented, family connecting kind of vacation or head off to a bustling boardwalk, a bounty of water sports, and a town dressed up in 1950's Doo Wop style.

'Explore America' Adventures

Find regional and national parks, scenic byways, reserves, recreational sites and resource areas that stretch coast to coast offering families hundreds of opportunities to explore this great land of America. Here’s a sampling of 10 unique getaways you can find when you take to adventure and “Explore America.”

Dream Vacation Ideas

Discover how fun it can be to plan that dream family vacation. Find a variety of ideas to help create your own dream list of fun adventures... take to the open road, hop a train, set sail, pitch a tent, stay in a resort, join a tour, learn about a new culture, and oodles more. Choose from a multitude of possibilities.

Rollicking Raleigh, NC

Join Mark and his daughter Corey as they romp about Raleigh -- an off-the-beaten-track city in North Carolina.

Ask the Travel Agent

... answers questions about the Yucatan Peninsula, New Orleans, Cape Cod, Great Britain, Mammoth Lakes, Switzerland, San Francisco, Wisconsin, Seattle, and San Diego. Also, ideas on grandparent travel, camping in Europe, taking a two-year-old to Morocco, budget travel, active teen vacations, and when to travel with a toddler.