Family Day Trips and Weekend Getaways for NYC Kids
New Yorkers are blessed with a huge variety of destinations for family-friendly weekend getaways and day trips in the tristate area. Whatever the season, whatever your interests and whatever your budget, there's an NYC family getaway for you.
There are 52 weekends a year: that's more than four dozen opportunities to take a mini-vacation with a day trip outside of NYC. Whether you want to enjoy the great outdoors with a hike or bike ride, relax at a regional resort, run around an amusement park, cool off at a water park, or hit the slopes, there are seemingly endless opportunities for fun within a few hours' drive of NYC.
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