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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rest stops are crowded as it is. If the average stop time became any more prolonged, it would be impossible other motorists to get in and out.
When we needed a longer break, we would get off the highway and fine a local park or elementary school, easy enough to do now with an online search. Back when my kids were little, we had them marked on an old AAA Triptik for the 500 mile trip to grandma’s house that we took several times a year. Yes, I’m old.
We do this too for annual drive to see family in Michigan. We know a variety of parks etc along the route. We pack a lunch and snacks and take two 1-hr breaks in a day so kids can run around. We only go to actual rest stops if it’s raining.
I would love if you share where your parks are! We just did the drive and found it hard to find much - or we did, but spent so much time driving around off exits to find something.
Ugh, I'm sorry, my husband is the travel planner and we didn't go this summer due to coronavirus, so I don't recall from last year. We always stop overnight in Cranberry PA, I know that. My advice would be to figure out what's a reasonable distance to drive between stops, then Google (ahead of time!) whether there are towns in those areas that have elementary schools or local parks. It's definitely hard to find this stuff on the fly. He planned it all out the first year we went, in 2014, and we've just done it ever since.
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