Families
Pictured – Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center, Virginia Beach
its centenary in 2011. Elsewhere, popular parks include
European-themed Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia; thrill-junkies' favourite Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio (with 75 rides); Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia; Six Flags Great America in Illinois; Six Flags Fiesta Texas and SeaWorld in San Antonio; Dolly Parton’s Dollywood in Tennessee, featuring a mix of family entertainment and rides; and Pennsylvania’s Hershey Park, Knoebels Amusement Park and Dorney Park & Wildwater.
DESTINATION EDUCATION Children love hands-on attractions, and many museums and other institutions across America have huge family appeal. Washington DC has dozens of
free, child-friendly attractions. At the International Spy Museum, older kids can test their skills with interactive experiences like Spy in the City, where they embark on a series of self-guided missions in DC neighbourhoods using a GPS Ranger device. Or the hour-long Operation Spy, where participants enter a fictional country and take on the role of US intelligence officers, engaging in a ‘top-secret’ mission. In Boston, families can step back
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in time to relive the Boston Tea Party in a living history experience aboard full-scale replica vessels in the newly-opened Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. Budding young astronauts will find
lots to explore in America. Space Shuttle Discovery arrived at the
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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Virginia’s Fairfax County in April 2012 for permanent exhibit. Meanwhile, Endeavour made its last flight to Los Angeles in September 2012, piggy-backing on a converted Boeing 747, prior to being transferred to the California Science Center, where it will be on view in the Endeavour Display Pavilion until the new Air and Space Center opens in 2017. And Atlantis gains a new home at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center in July 2013 as part of an exhibit telling the story of the 30-year Space Shuttle programme with hands- on, interactive and immersive mediums.
Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum, the Zimmer Children’s Museum in Los Angeles, Little Rock’s re-opened Museum of Discovery and Chicago’s Shedd
Aquarium are other family favourites. 'A must see' for visitors to San Francisco is the California Academy of Sciences, where visitors can feel moved in the Earthquake exhibit that features a simulator transporting them back to the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 and the 1906 quake which was the most devastating in the city’s history. And don’t forget to head
outdoors – kids love exploring nature. Think close encounters with wildlife such as bears, alligators or whales and exciting activities like zip-lining. Idaho alone now has seven zip line adventures and there’s a wealth of other adventure options across the country. Keeping your young ones
happy on a US holiday is child’s play, but choosing where to go is the hard part.
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