Slide Rock State Park
Slide Rock is a 43-acre apple farm turned state park where Oak Creek carved a natural slide into the rock. Summer crowds are real — arrive before 9am.
Travel for Families
Traveling with kids changes the calculus on everything — pacing, room layouts, meal timing, and how far you can realistically walk in a day. This archive gathers family-tested destinations, kid-friendly hotels and resorts, and itineraries built around naps, snacks, and attractions that keep every age engaged. Multigenerational trips are surging too, so you will also find guides for the times grandparents come along.
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Chapel of the Holy Cross
The Chapel of the Holy Cross rises straight out of Sedona’s red rock buttes — it’s one of the few roadside stops that actually earns the detour.
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Devil’s Bridge
Devil’s Bridge is the largest sandstone arch near Sedona — the 1.8-mile hike is moderate, but standing on it with Red Rock views in every direction is not.
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Bell Rock
Bell Rock sits right off Highway 179 — no long trail required. The vortex reputation draws the crowds, but the views justify the stop on their own.
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Cathedral Rock
Cathedral Rock earns its reputation — the scramble up is genuinely tough, but that vortex energy and 360° red rock panorama make it Sedona’s most rewarding hike.
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Parkhotel Quellenhof Aachen Premiumhotel Aachen
The Quellenhof sits beside Carolus Thermen and gives guests free access — Aachen’s 2,000-year bathing tradition, included in the room rate.
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Dam Square
Dam Square is where Amsterdam began — literally. The 13th-century dam on the Amstel gave the city its name, and the square still anchors everything.
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Botanical Garden And Botanical Museum
Berlin’s Botanical Garden has been growing since 1679 — the Dahlem greenhouses alone span a city block and house plants from every climate on earth.
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Saint Lucia
The Pitons look best from the water at dusk — but the real Saint Lucia is a bowl of pepperpot stew in a fishing village.
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Japan
Tokyo and Kyoto pull in opposite directions — neon and noise vs. stone gardens and silence. You need both, and two weeks still feels short.
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Dominican Republic
Pico Duarte is the Caribbean’s highest peak and most people skip it for Punta Cana. That trade-off tells you everything about the DR.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City sits at 4,300 feet with the Wasatch Range as its backyard — the Temple Square crowd is just a fraction of what this city offers.
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San Diego
San Diego’s best move is skipping the obvious and eating your way through Barrio Logan on a Tuesday afternoon.
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Tanzania
Three UNESCO sites, one country: Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Kilimanjaro alone justify the flight to East Africa.
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San Antonio
The River Walk gets crowded by noon — walk it at 7am instead. The missions south of the Alamo are quieter and frankly more impressive.
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Lake Garda
Sirmione sits on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Garda — the Roman ruins and medieval castle alone justify the detour from Verona.
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Portugal
Porto’s azulejo tiles and the Algarve’s cliffs are just the start — Portugal rewards the traveler who lingers past the obvious.
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