Best Snow Tubing near Philly for Families

Try Galactic tubing at Camelback Mountain for nighttime family adventures. Photo courtesy of Camelback

We've rounded up the best places for snow tubing near Philly for the ultimate winter fun.

Winter fun hardly gets more exciting than this, and we've rounded up our favorite places to go snow tubing near Philadelphia. As a kid, my snow tubing experiences consisted of my dad pulling snow tubes behind his 4-wheeler near our house. Safety standards have changed in the Philly area since the 1980s, and now we don’t have to resort to such creative measures. So get ready to ride the slopes down carefully crafted lanes from the Lehigh Valley to the Poconos at these snowy spots packed with cold-weather family fun. Nowadays, snow tubing is the perfect all-ages winter activity, with no gear or experience required.

For more winter excursions, check out our favorite sledding spots near Philly and our list of family-friendly skiing and snowboarding destinations. All of our favorite wintertime highlights can be found in our Winter Activities Guide for Philly Families.

The Ultimate Experience Gift for DC Area Kids: The Gift of Play

A year-long National Children's Museum membership makes the perfect experiential gift for kids and families.

This holiday season, give your kids the gift of play and learning with a year-long membership to DC’s beloved National Children’s Museum.

Have you seen those videos where parents ask their kids to name a holiday gift they got last year and the kids can’t name a single one? Well, with many experts agreeing that children need way less stuff and way more screen-free brain-growing play, it’s no wonder experience gifts are on the rise.

Fortunately, the DMV is home to one of the very best places for unlimited, educational, hands-on play: the city’s beloved National Children’s Museum. A year-long membership makes the perfect experiential gift for kids and families across DC, Virginia and Maryland–and one that children will remember long after the holiday season comes to a close.

How to Celebrate New Year’s Eve With Kids at Home: 22 Parent-Tested Ideas

Noisemakers and party hats make the evening feel festive from the start! Photo by Ivan Samkov via Pexels

New Year's Eve with kids doesn't have to mean a boring night at home. Keep the night at home but lose the boring with these 15 fantastic family-friendly activities to help celebrate New Year's Eve with kids at home. From balloon pops to ball drops, discover how to ring in the New Year – or Noon Year! – in the most festive and memorable way.

For more New Year's Eve fun with kids with an international flavor, check out our guide to 23 Family-Friendly New Year’s Traditions from around the World. Chair leaping or grape eating, anyone? Also, there are tons of activities and things to do on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day on our local event calendars.

However you celebrate, from all of us at Mommy Poppins: Happy New Year!

Oshogatsu Festival, Polar Bear Plunges, and More Top Things To Do in Los Angeles This Weekend

Can you handle the cold temps of the Polar Bear Plunge? Find out at the Beach House in Santa Monica. Photo by Joey Ranotti via Flickr

Looking for the best things to do in Los Angeles this weekend? Here are some of our favorite events and activities to add to your list this weekend

This weekend in Los Angeles, winter is coming on strong! Courageous Angelenos can brave the frigid waters of the Burrr-bank North Pole Plunge and the Polar Bear Plunge at the Beach House, and discover the fun of snow play at Lake Forest Snowfest 2026. My family and I look forward each year to the booming taiko drums and mochi pounding, intricate candy sculptures, and  themed origami of the Oshogatsu Family Festival, the Japanese American National Museum's annual Lunar New Year celebration. This year's event celebrates Year of the Horse on the JACCC Plaza. And little ones can start the new year on a path to creative discovery at the free Colburn School Early Childhood Open House.
 

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