Quick trip with 7 year old within hour or 1.5 hour drive of Arlington

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you fly? Get on an airplane and go to Florida.

Huh?

I think she needs to be able to get back to her doctors in Arlington within an hour.

[Anonymous]

Lots of great options within 1.5 hours:
Gettysburg
Catoctin/Cunningham Falls
Harper’s Ferry
Calvert Marine Museum
Manassas Battlefield Park
Fredericksburg, VA
Antietam Battlefield
Fort Frederick State Park

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of great options within 1.5 hours:
Gettysburg
Catoctin/Cunningham Falls
Harper’s Ferry
Calvert Marine Museum
Manassas Battlefield Park
Fredericksburg, VA
Antietam Battlefield
Fort Frederick State Park

Also Luray or Front Royal, VA (Bear Shenandoah NP)

[Anonymous]

Take the train to Richmond or Philadelphia.

Or go stay in Luray (which right about 1.5 hours away). See the caverns, do a hike, maybe do a river activity if you're up for that.

[Anonymous]

I think Baltimore is good.
Take a boat ride there
Science museum
Port Discovery
Fort mchenry

Or even dc
Parent word
Museum of illusions
Building museum
Postal museum
Eat at Lincoln’s waffle shop

[Anonymous]

Annapolis!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take the train to Richmond or Philadelphia.

Or go stay in Luray (which right about 1.5 hours away). See the caverns, do a hike, maybe do a river activity if you're up for that.

Richmond is great for that age and nice and flat for walking around. If you time it right you can do the HOV lanes and get there in 1:40 ish but the train could also be fun

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take the train to Richmond or Philadelphia.

Or go stay in Luray (which right about 1.5 hours away). See the caverns, do a hike, maybe do a river activity if you're up for that.

Richmond is great for that age and nice and flat for walking around. If you time it right you can do the HOV lanes and get there in 1:40 ish but the train could also be fun

Luray and go to the Alpaca Farm near Harrisonburg and the field of sunflowers at Lost Bottoms in Edinburg, VA.

[Anonymous]

My kids that age loved the various programs at the local nature centers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. What’s there to do in Annapolis for a child? I think of it as walking around and looking in shops, maybe going out on a boat.

Tour the Naval Academy folllowed by lunch and ice cream in downtown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. What’s there to do in Annapolis for a child? I think of it as walking around and looking in shops, maybe going out on a boat.

Tour the Naval Academy folllowed by lunch and ice cream in downtown.

I think 7 is too young for that tour. Also a lot of walking (our guide walked really fast too. I
Have a mild disability and it was a lot for me)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. What’s there to do in Annapolis for a child? I think of it as walking around and looking in shops, maybe going out on a boat.

Tour the Naval Academy folllowed by lunch and ice cream in downtown.

I think 7 is too young for that tour. Also a lot of walking (our guide walked really fast too. I
Have a mild disability and it was a lot for me)

I assumed OP just meant “tour” it at your own pace (model ship museum, etc)… not take a guided tour.

There’s also the MD state Capitol building there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. What’s there to do in Annapolis for a child? I think of it as walking around and looking in shops, maybe going out on a boat.

Tour the Naval Academy folllowed by lunch and ice cream in downtown.

I think 7 is too young for that tour. Also a lot of walking (our guide walked really fast too. I
Have a mild disability and it was a lot for me)

I assumed OP just meant “tour” it at your own pace (model ship museum, etc)… not take a guided tour.

There’s also the MD state Capitol building there.

*PP, not OP

[Anonymous]

Kings Dominion.

No 7yo is going to want to do a boring Naval Academy tour.

[Anonymous]

Mr Vernon
Monticello