Need Ideas for Your Family? Try These Winter Outdoor Activities

Planning a fun-filled family vacation but not sure what all you can do and plan with your family and kids? Look no further than these awesome outdoor activity ideas this winter! Does your family like to go tobagganing, snowboarding or skiing? Check out the numerous ski and sledding resorts all over the USA; most offer alot more family activities inside too, like family game nights and a campfire with smores and stories too. Go on winter walks or hiking with snowshoeing – you can on while on vacation to walk to new places in that town or just stroll through your own neighborhood or local park. With little children, make a snow sculpture, look for animal tracks, and build a snowman or snow woman. Build an ice igloo or ice fort with them. Make snow angels or participate in a snowball fight in a nearby park with the local kids. Find a well known outside ice skating rink or indoor one and go ice skating with the kids. There are many popular ice fishing spots on lakes and rivers too, just ask the local fisherman where they recommend going. Go on wildlife hikes and see if you can spot any animals and observe how they are in the winter season. Rent a hot tub or sauna for your backyard and invite the neighborhood to come hang out and take a dip or sit in the sauna. Try a winter picnic with hot dogs and hamburgers and hot cocoa. Bake holiday cookies together. Make homemade tomato soup with hot buttery biscuits and a grilled cheese sandwich. Drink hot cocoa or hot apple cider. Make a batch of chili or bake a fruit pie. Shop after christmas sales with the family. Look at Christmas holiday lights and displays while driving around the town with the family. In addition, there are many tourist attractions and tourist cities that especially cater to winter activities for the family too. Look to GuestQuest for these popular tourist places to help you plan for your next family trip this winter season.

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