Day trips and long weekends from DC
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Anonymous
| Thanks for these suggestions. I hadn’t heard of several of these places, I am looking forward to exploring. |
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| St. Michael’s, MD |
Anonymous
Add Solomons Island for lunch & aquarium after the Calvert Cliffs beach |
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This is a good tv show to get acquainted with what is out there.
https://weta.org/watch/shows/get-out-town |
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Luray caverns
Winchester is a cute revolutionary war town and they have a pretty good children’s museum. |
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Purse State Park (hunt for sharks teeth) + Mallows Bay ghost fleet
Calvert Cliffs + Calvert Marine Museum Hampton/Newport News/Norfolk— Fort Monroe, Virginia Air & Space Museum, Virginia Living Museum, Nauticus/battleship, Chrysler Art Museum Strasburg, PA— train stuff Harper’s Ferry Natural Bridge area/Frontier Culture Museum Luray or Front Royal— caves, Shenandoah Also, there is a sale on Maryland Science Center memberships every year (50% off). This membership gets you in free a lot of other places— the battleship & living museum above, science museum in Richmond, Franklin Institute in Philly, Intrepid in NYC, etc. |
Anonymous
| Oh, also: train to NYC and Assateague or Chincoteague. |
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Assateague and Chincoteague outside of mosquito season.
Cunningham Falls State Park Deep Creek Lake |
Anonymous
+1 Beaver Creek Farm is another hit for young kids. Lots of room to run and easy fishing. |
Anonymous
NP. I've always wanted to take my kids to Hagley (nearby in Delaware ) but haven't gotten around to it. You could also go to a glass blowing demonstration. |
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George Washington's Headquarters is across the street from the children's museum and is low-cost and tiny, which is nice for kids' attention spans. https://www.westoaksfarm-...arket.com/ Apple picking, festivals, playground, other fruit picking, live music certain weekends, lunch Museum of the Shenandoah Valley - museum itself might not be super interesting to kids, but their gardens are very nice and often have special exhibits. https://www.themsv.org/events/scraposaurs/ is the one coming up. There's also a bamboo garden which is really cool to walk through. Dinosaur Land isn't too far out of the way and neither is the drive-in theater. https://www.thefamilydi.com/ |