Staycation Ideas for the Summer
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Anonymous
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I have 3 kids to entertain for the summer ages 3-11. I already feel like we have exhausted a lot to do around here. We have two months left to go.
Could you please add to my list? Places we've already gone in the past two months: Great Falls Frying Pan Park Roer's Zoofari Burke Lake Pohick Bay Lake Fairfax Scott's Run Roosevelt Island Chesapeak and Ohio Canal Georgetown Waterfront Old Town Alexandria National Harbor Wolf Trap Butler's Orchard Great Country Farms Arboretum Wharf Washington Monument and Mall I plan to do day trips to Baltimore and Annapolis. |
Anonymous
| That’s a lot. You average two places a week. Let the kids entertain themselves at home. |
Anonymous
We have 7 days per week to fill. It is hard because normally we would hang out with friends. We are still social distancing. |
Anonymous
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Brookside Gardens
Calvert Cliffs Gravely Point (to have a picnic and watch the planes take off and land) Alexandria waterfront |
Anonymous
Oops, I missed you had put Alexandria |
Anonymous
| Wow OP. I'm so much lazier than you. Our staycation plans are cooking/baking, hanging out in the backyard and deck and watching movies on the projector at night, biking around and taking walks. Lots of reading. I need to motivate and find safe places to go where we can SD but still have fun and feel safe. |
Anonymous
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It's ok to go back to those places. If there's a particular hike you liked, do it again.
That's quite a list, OP. |
Anonymous
| Not a staycation per se but you could rent a River House or a lake house and spend a week some place else playing in the water |
Anonymous
| OP, ask on the travel forum. You will find your people there. |
Anonymous
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Here are the places we have been and really liked:
--Patapsco State Park and the Tire Playground --Huntley Meadows wetland boardwalk --Green Springs Gardens in Annandale --Brookside Gardens in Wheaton --Colonoal Farms at Piscataway Park --Greenbriar State Park in Hagerstown (has a lake/beach) --Matapeake State Beach Park on Kent Island --Jones Point Park in Alexandria for bikes/scooters --Meadowlark Gardens Here are some things we want to try and this is just scratching the surface. You are not remotely out of things to do! --Day trip to Colonial Beach, VA --Lake Accontink --Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in DC --Dyke Marsh Nature Preserve --Turkey Run Park --Mason Neck Park --Holmes Run Trail --Patuxent Wildlife Refuge --Terrapin Beach Park --Cunningham Falls --Calvert Cliffs State Park --Beverly Triton Nature Park --Jug Bay Nature Preserve --Leesylvania State Park --Flag Ponds --Burnside Farms --Greenwell State Park --Dora Kelly Park --Sky Meadows State Park --Tubing at Watermelon Park --Fort Smallwood State Park |
Anonymous
Op here. Thank you so much for this list! I’m so grateful. I felt like I was running ideas. I also just found all the fishing spots within NOVA state parks and plan to check all those places out too. |
Anonymous
NP. This is my kind of staycation! |
Anonymous
OP - check out the different parts of Patapsco Valley State Board. The tire park is fun. A nearby area has a swinging bridge and a trail with small cascades. Further out Route 70, the McKeldin area also has great hiking. You can go back to each area multiple times and try different trails. Also try Sandy Point State Park (near Annapolis) on the Bay. |
Anonymous
I've spent a lot of time in Colonial Beach (grandparents lived there). Trump country central and no one wears a mask. Not much to do there and not really a beach. Not sure why you'd travel there without relatives, but nearby Fredericksburg is much nicer. |
Anonymous
50% this and 50% the outings OP lists sounds ideal |