Visit USA 2024 Travel Planner Intro

FAMILY FAVOURITES

HANG TOGETHER Whether a roller coaster, an interactive children's museum or a horse and carriage ride in 'colonial America', there's fun for the whole family

From the parks of Florida and California to caverns in West Virginia and dinosaurs in New Jersey, family fun options abound. THEME PARKS America's theme parks have evolved into multi-day holiday destinations, attracting visitors by the tens of millions. Knott’s Berry Farm in California claims to be America’s first theme park, although it was the 1955 opening of Disneyland in nearby Anaheim that stepped things up. Both parks, together with Florida’s Walt Disney World, Universal Studios’ parks on either coast and others like SeaWorld regularly add new attractions to ensure guests keep coming back.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, INDIANAPOLIS From its beginnings in 1925 in a small house, what is now the world’s largest children’s museum covers 30 acres and has 13 major galleries that include the $25 million Dinosphere: Now You’re in their World experience, featuring a family of dinosaur skeletons. Visitors are transported back in time through a multi-sensory, immersive environment. STRONG NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PLAY Perhaps the ultimate play destination for all ages, the Strong is an interactive, collections-based museum devoted to the history and exploration of play. Visitors can jump into a board game at the outdoor Hasbro Game Park, take a spin on a

wheelchair-accessible carousel spinner from the Game of Life or clamber over giant wooden Jenga pieces. In ESL Digital Worlds: Level Up, they become part of a video game

by creating an avatar and immersing themselves in video game scenarios.

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA Ride a horse-drawn carriage through the world’s largest living history museum, which recreates the atmosphere and lifestyle of Virginia’s colonial capital with interpreters and guides dressed in period costume and carrying out trades and activities of the time. As well as the 89 original preserved 18th century buildings, there are hundreds more reconstructed from historical records and archaeological research.

Go eyeball to eyeball with huge whale sharks or don a wetsuit and get in the water with sharks and rays at the Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta

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