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Family Travel Destinations

Here’s every place we’ve taken our kids, all in one spot. Start here to land on one of our destination guides. We’ll show you the trips we took, when to go, and where we stayed , and also tell you what we loved, what we didn’t, and how to make it all work for families.

Are you planning a long weekend? We rocked Hawaii in just 72 hours. Is Spring Break coming up? Ski Whistler, Sun Valley, or the Japanese Alps, or take the kids to Machu Picchu. Are you looking for big-time adventure? Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way and Iceland’s south coast are waiting. Scroll down by region or jump directly to the part of the world that’s interesting to you.

Rather plan around a specific kind of trip? National parks are some of our favorites here at AftT and you can’t go wrong with visits to any of them. If your kids love roller coasters, our theme parks run from Orlando to Cedar Point to Disneyland Paris. Ski trips have been our spring break tradition for years, and our UNESCO page maps every World Heritage Site we’ve visited.

Destination index · Updated November 2026

Continents

Four so far

Countries

Nine with guides

US guides

27 states + DC

Home base

Oklahoma

United States Canada, Mexico & Caribbean Europe Asia South America National parks Ski trips Theme parks UNESCO

United States with kids

The United States

Our home turf, and where we spend a lot of time exploring. A lot of these adventures were school break road trips from Oklahoma, and plenty of them started with a national park. Find your favorite region and start there, or scroll down for destinations abroad.

The West8 guides

**California** *Theme parks, national parks, and 800 miles of coast*

Hawaii - Maui, the Big Island, and Oahu in 72 hours — **Hawaii** *Maui, the Big Island, and Oahu in 72 hours*

Death Valley National Park — **Nevada** *Great Basin and the parks outside Las Vegas*

Utah - The Mighty 5 and skiing Park City — **Utah** *The Mighty 5 and skiing Park City*

Colorado - Rocky Mountain in December and two ski resorts — **Colorado** *Rocky Mountain in December and two ski resorts*

Ski Sun Valley with kids — **Idaho** *A ski week in Sun Valley*

Flathead River Rafting Montana — **Montana** *Glacier National Park and rafting the Flathead*

Winter in Yellowstone NPS Lewis Falls — **Wyoming** *Yellowstone in winter and Devils Tower*

The Southwest4 guides

Arizona - Thanksgiving in Saguaro National Park — **Arizona** *Thanksgiving in Saguaro National Park*

**New Mexico** *Sledding the dunes at White Sands*

**Texas** *San Antonio, Big Bend, and Guadalupe Mountains*

OKC Wheel - things to do with kids in OKC — **Oklahoma** *Our home state and four national park sites*

The Midwest4 guides

St. Patrick's Day Chicago River Cruise — **Illinois** *A weekend in Chicago without a car*

**Iowa** *A Labor Day weekend in Dubuque*

Visiting St. Louis Gateway Arch at sunset — **Missouri** *The Gateway Arch, City Museum, and Branson*

Corkscrew roller coaster at Cedar Point Sandusky Ohio — **Ohio** *Cleveland, Cuyahoga Valley, and Cedar Point*

The South7 guides

Arkansas - A weekend in Hot Springs — **Arkansas** *A weekend in Hot Springs*

Tennessee - Two days in the Smokies, plus Dollywood — **Tennessee** *Two days in the Smokies, plus Dollywood*

**Kentucky** *Mammoth Cave on a free weekend*

Georgia - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Atlanta — **Georgia** *Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Atlanta*

Florida - Theme parks and all three national parks — **Florida** *Theme parks and all three national parks*

McLeod Plantation Gullah Geechee National Heritage Corridor — **South Carolina** *Charleston and a day at Congaree*

North Carolina - The Blue Ridge Parkway and the Smokies — **North Carolina** *The Blue Ridge Parkway and the Smokies*

The East5 guides

Virginia - Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway — **Virginia** *Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway*

**West Virginia** *Hiking New River Gorge*

4th of July Parade in Philadelphia - Drum and Fife Band — **Pennsylvania** *The Fourth of July in Philadelphia*

**Washington, DC** *A stopover on the National Mall*

**Vermont** *The mansion at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park*

North America with kids

Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean

You’ll find Whistler for a spring break ski week, Los Cabos for an all-inclusive, stress-free beach week, and St. John views of Virgin Islands National Park. Stay tuned for more destinations.

Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos with kids — **Mexico** *Thanksgiving at the Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos*

**US Virgin Islands** *St. Thomas, St. John, and a national park*

Europe with kids

Europe

Europe started with London, Paris, and Dublin in 2015, and they keep pulling us back in. Since then we’ve done Scotland by steam train, ten days on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, a spring break in Athens, Iceland’s south coast, and a train trip from Amsterdam to Disneyland Paris with stops in Belgium and Luxembourg.

London and England - A week in London and day trips to Stonehenge — **London and England** *A week in London and day trips to Stonehenge*

Scotland - The Jacobite over the Glenfinnan Viaduct — **Scotland** *The Jacobite over the Glenfinnan Viaduct*

Northern Ireland - The Antrim Coast and Carrick-a-Rede — **Northern Ireland** *The Antrim Coast and Carrick-a-Rede*

**Ireland** *Ten days on the Wild Atlantic Way*

France - Bastille Day in Paris and Disneyland Paris — **France** *Bastille Day in Paris and Disneyland Paris*

Windmills along the water at Zaanse Schans, with an orange windmill sail in the foreground — **Netherlands** *Amsterdam canals, Zaanse Schans windmills, and Delft*

Dinant's riverfront houses on the Meuse below the citadel cliff and the onion-domed Collegiate Church — **Belgium** *Brussels, chocolate in Ghent, and Dinant*

A church spire and old stone buildings beside a narrow river in a green valley in Luxembourg City — **Luxembourg** *A day in Luxembourg City from Brussels*

**Iceland** *Seven days on the south coast*

The columns of the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens with the sun shining through — **Greece** *Three nights in Athens and the Acropolis*

Asia with kids

Asia

Japan is our only stop in Asia so far, but we’re planning a trip back in 2027. Our first visit was a spring break ski trip to the Japanese Alps. We skied Hakuba, visited the snow monkeys at Jigokudani, and spent time in Tokyo. It was one of the most fun trips we’ve ever taken.

Jigokudani Monkey Park Nagano Japan — **Japan** *Skiing Hakuba, the snow monkeys, and Tokyo*

South America with kids

South America

Peru is our only South American visit so far, and in all of our travels, Peru is the country that really surprised us. It knocked our socks off with its hospitality, food, and natural beauty. Machu Picchu is the rock star of course, but spend some time in and around the Sacred Valley too. Peru is a cultural powerhouse and a lovely country to visit.

National parks with kids

National parks

These are some of our favorite trips anywhere. The Every Kid Outdoors pass sent us to park after park, and we haven’t stopped. We’ve written guides to 30 national parks so far (visited 46), plus a stack of monuments and historic sites in our #ParkPics series.

Every national park we've visited — **Every national park we’ve visited** *Guides, #ParkPics, and every NPS site by state*

Air boats in the Everglades with kids — **Everglades**

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Hawaii-2 — **Hawaii Volcanoes National Park**

Lassen Volcanic National Park — **Lassen Volcanic**

Ski trips with kids

Ski trips

Skiing turned into our spring break tradition. Park City was our first family ski trip, back when it was still Canyons Resort, and we’ve since skied Whistler, Winter Park, Purgatory, Sun Valley, and the Japanese Alps. Stay tuned for more family-friendly ski destinations!

Purgatory Resort - best ski resorts for families. — **Purgatory**

Theme parks with kids

Theme parks

We’ve never met a roller coaster we didn’t like (although Cedar Point’s Top Thrill Dragster had us second guessing). Walt Disney World Resort is our family’s pick in Orlando, and Volcano Bay is our favorite water park. Some other awesome parks we’ve been to are King’s Island, Legoland San Diego (great for little tykes), Disneyland Paris, Dollywood, Knott’s Berry Farm, several Six Flags Parks and some favorites close to home, Frontier City and Silver Dollar City.

**All of our theme park guides** *Florida, California, the Midwest and South, and Paris*

Booking hotels near Disneyland — **Disneyland**

Knott's Berry Farm — **Knott’s Berry Farm**

Visiting Fiesta Texas with kids in San Antonio — **Six Flags Fiesta Texas**

UNESCO sites with kids

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

We didn’t plan it this way, but a lot of our trips have landed on World Heritage Sites. Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, and Edinburgh’s Old Town are all on UNESCO’s list. So are the Giant’s Causeway and Iceland’s Thingvellir. They’re great places for kids to see history and nature up close, and our map shows every site we’ve visited and helps you plan your next UNESCO adventure.

The World Heritage Sites we've visited — **The World Heritage Sites we’ve visited** *On a map of every site in the world*

Edinburgh's Old Town — **Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns**

Who we are

The family powering Along for the Trip

We’re Carrick, Carrie, Andrew, and Cadence, an Oklahoma family seeing the world one school break at a time. Every guide on this page comes from our own trips. Come get to know us!

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