- According to the Travel Industry Association of America, more than 84 million Americans visited a U.S. national park in the past five years
- Almost half of American tourists plan to visit a national park
- The National Park Service has started a campaign of programs and activities that appeal to children, including junior ranger programs and online discovery activities
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LET FROMMER'S SHOW YOU WHERE YOUR KIDS CAN:
- Climb a mountain
- Go whale-watching
- Learn to canoe, kayak, and sail
- Hike a canyon, rain forest, or waterfall trail
- Become a junior ranger
- Explore little-known spots in each park
- Use the field guide inside
PLUS INVALUABLE TRAVEL TIPS:
- Where to avoid crowds in 15 family-friendly parks
- Hotels with cribs and rollaways & great family campgrounds
- The best restaurants for kids: low-stress to best-behavior meals
- Words of wisdom on safety and choosing a park
- How to have a good time without breaking the bank
- Candid, no-nonsense reviews
About the Author
Kurt Repanshek lives in Park City, Utah. His work has appeared in Smithsonian, Audubon Hemispheres, National Geographic Traveler, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Denver Post, Miami Herald, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and many other periodicals. His other books published by Wiley include America’s National Parks For Dummies and National Parks of the West For Dummies.With his wife, Marcelle, and youngest son, Sean, Repanshek spends much of his time outdoors, paddling, hiking, and camping in national forests and parks in the summer and cross-country skiing and snowshoeing through them in the winter. He’s also the creator of www.nationalparkstraveler.com, a blog dedicated to “Commentary, News, and Life in America’s National Parks.”
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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GREAT for the parks it covers, but doesn't cover enough,
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This review is from: Frommer's National Parks with Kids (Park Guides) (Paperback)
I found the information in this book much more useful than any other travel guide I have purchased. The lodging information for Yellowstone, for example, describes the state of specific room types at each location!
This book's one failing is its skimpy selection of parks.
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There are probably a jillion books about National Parks, but this one has the information a family with growing kids needs to make the most of visits to them. With this book as a guide, we have already visited over a dozen East Coast parks, and it has been of great assistance, especially in helping maximize the experience for the parks we only had a limited time to enjoy. We continue to use it to help map out our trips, we will be hitting 3-4 more parks this summer.
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I really like this book. While it is supposedly geared for kids, I think it's very useful for finding interesting things to do at National Parks for everybody. I don't know why I didn't know this - but when I looked at the table of contents I realized just how few National Parks there are in the East. One side effect of reading this book is that it's made me realize what a precious resource these National Parks are to all of us, and it makes me wonder why there aren't more of them.
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There's something special about the awe in a 5-year-old's eyes when they see for the first time the Old Faithful Geyser in full eruption, spitting thousands of gallons of steaming hot water into a robin's egg blue sky, all the while thundering like a rocket engine at liftoff Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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There's something special about the awe in a 5-year-old's eyes when they see for the first time the Old Faithful Geyser in full eruption, spitting thousands of gallons of steaming hot water into a robin's egg blue sky, all the while thundering like a rocket engine at liftoff Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
restrooms with flush toilets, national reservation system, national park vacation, vault toilets, park newspaper, bear boxes, relaxed play, dump station, cove hardwoods, park concessionaire, snow coach, tide pooling, backcountry office, rollaway beds, ral places, ranger programs, full hookup, geyser basin, tent pads, strong hikers, main visitor center, extra adult, backcountry campsites, this campground, backpacking trails Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cape Cod, Yosemite Valley, Grand Teton, Kings Canyon, Bar Harbor, Estes Park, Port Angeles, Closed Oct, Old Faithful, Zion Canyon, Grant Grove, West Glacier, Great Smoky, Memorial Day, Bryce Canyon, Cape Hatteras, Grand Lake, Labor Day, Olympic National Park, Cades Cove, Jackson Lake, Colter Bay, Forest Service, Jackson Hole, Ruby's Inn New!
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