You Can Bring the Whole Family and You Don’t Have to Go Far

Are you looking for some fun family trips to take this summer but don’t have the time or money to go too far from home? You are in luck because there are plenty of things to do and see and none of them are more than a few hours away. Check out the following guidebooks for some great ideas:

New Jersey

• New Jersey Family Adventure Guide: Great Things to See and Do for the Entire Family by Chuck Lawliss, 1996
• New Jersey Day Trips: A Guide to Outings in New Jersey and Nearby Areas of New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware by Barbara Hudgins and Patrick Sarver, 2004
• Family-Friendly Biking in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania by Diane Goodspeed, 2005
• Best Hikes with Children: New Jersey (2nd ed.) by Arline Zatz, 2005

New York

• Let’s Take the Kids: Great Places to Go in New York’s Hudson Valley Including the Catskills, the Capital Region, the Adirondacks, Lake George, the Berkshires and Cooperstown by Joanne Michaels, 2005
• The Grownup’s Guide: Visiting New York City with Kids: The most comprehensive guide to planning and enjoying your Big Apple adventure in child-size portions by Diane Chernoff-Rosen with Lisa Levinson, 2003
• Fodor’s Family: New York City with Kids by Meryl Pearlstein, 2009
  

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Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia with Children: A Guide to the Delaware Valley including Lancaster and Hershey (4th ed.) by Elizabeth S. Gephart, 2000
• Around Philadelphia with Kids by Andrea Lehman, 2001

New England

• Where Should We Take the Kids? The Northeast: Fresh, Most-Fun-for-the-Money, Anything-but-Boring Getaways for You and Your Children, Complete with Family-Friendly Places to Stay and Eat by Elin McCoy, 1999
• The Everything Family Guide to New England: Where to eat, play and stay in America’s scenic and historic Northeast by Kim Knox Beckius, 2008
• Fodor’s Family: Boston with Kids by Lisa Oppenheimer, 2009
  

Virginia and Washington D.C.

• Fodor’s Washington, D.C. with Kids (4th ed.) by Sandra Burt and Linda Perlis, 2008
• Fun with the Family Virginia: Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids by Candyce H. Stapen, 2008
  

-Andrea L.