Anonymous wrote:Luray caverns
Winchester is a cute revolutionary war town and they have a pretty good children’s museum.

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/

Anonymous wrote:Longwood Gardens and Chadds Ford

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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Anonymous wrote:Hersey/Lancaster

If your kids are little, include a stay at Rocky Acre Farm

+1

Beaver Creek Farm is another hit for young kids. Lots of room to run and easy fishing.

Assateague and Chincoteague outside of mosquito season.
Cunningham Falls State Park
Deep Creek Lake

Oh, also: train to NYC and Assateague or Chincoteague.

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.

Luray caverns
Winchester is a cute revolutionary war town and they have a pretty good children’s museum.

This is a good tv show to get acquainted with what is out there.

https://weta.org/watch/shows/get-out-town

Anonymous wrote:Calvert Cliffs State Park (in Calvert County, MD)

Pittsburgh is a great long weekend trip.

Add Solomons Island for lunch & aquarium after the Calvert Cliffs beach

St. Michael’s, MD

Thanks for these suggestions. I hadn’t heard of several of these places, I am looking forward to exploring.