Visiting a tourist attraction with kids can be a great way to learn about the world – its history, nature, culture, and so much more.Trouble is, often not much separates a tourist attraction from it’s less respectable cousin – the tourist trap.
My children and I have been disappointed by a number of attractions that turned out to be tourist traps, and then there are the few that exceeded any and all expectations.
12 Tourist Attractions to See with Kids Before They Grow Up
1.) Walt Disney World – Orlando, FL
2.) National Mall and Memorial Park – Washington, D.C.
3.) Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island – New York, NY
4.) Niagara Falls – NY
5.) Old Faithful Geyser – Yellowstone National Park
6.) Hoover Dam – Border of Arizona and Nevada.
7.) Luray Caverns – Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
8.) Mount Rushmore – South Dakota.
9.) London Tower – London, England
10.) Eiffel Tower – Paris, France
11.) Stonehenge – England
12.) Kissing the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle – Cork, Ireland
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Sandra Foyt | Sandra Foyt inspires lifelong-learners to travel the world. A former education advocate and enrichment coach, she lived in Buenos Aires, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Washington, D.C., New York City, and Southern California before settling in Northeast NY with two teens, an outdoorsy husband, and a well-indulged Chocolate Lab. Sandra contributes to Being Latino, and her portfolio appears at www.SandraFoyt.com.
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We have been to half of the attractions you listed and we would return to each one of them if given a chance. Even Old Faithful at Yellowstone was worth the wait. When we first arrived, I felt like we had made a wrong turn and somehow ended up at a Nascar speedway. Shoving our way through the crowd, we found a spot and luckily only had to wait a few minutes to watch her erupt. I was surprised at how much we thought that was worth the wait!
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March 19, 2012 at 10:57 am
LOL! Jen, definitely the worst part of going to see Old Faithful was trying to find a parking spot! But I think that the combination of learning about how geysers work plus the sheer magnificence of watching nature erupt more than made getting there worth the effort.
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