Here are the best hiking with kids blogs that I have come across and I wanted to pass on to my readers. These have gear reviews, trails to explore and more. Continue reading
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7 Tips In Case You Get Lost While Hiking
Where is the trail? Photo via Flickr.
You may get lost sometime no matter how much you prepare. Anyone that spends much time exploring the Rocky Mountains with their family needs to know these tips. Continue reading
10 Must Bring Items On a Hike
Don’t ever forget to bring any of these must bring items the next time you go for a hike. I never go for a hike in the Rocky Mountains without bring these along. Continue reading
How to Make Family Hiking Trips Fun
I love to take a family hiking trip to the Rocky Mountains. Like everything you do with your family, they can be either fun or frustrating. Here are some tips to make sure that your next family hiking trip is a fun one. Continue reading
Fun Hikes with Kids near Bozeman, Montana
There are lots of fun areas to explore and to go hiking with kids around Bozeman, Montana.
The City of Bozeman is located in a fantastic spot in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. It is near Yellowstone National Park, wilderness areas, ski resorts, and some great trout fishing rivers. Continue reading
Parents Need Good Attitude When Hiking with Kids
When parents take their kids out hiking it can be a lot of fun or it can be challenging. Oftentimes the difference between a great day in the Rocky Mountains and an unpleasant one simply rests with the parent’s attitude. Continue reading
Fun Hikes with Kids in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is a big city with the best, yes I said best, access to the Rocky Mountains of any of the major cities in the Western United States. As such there are a lot of fun hikes with kids around Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake is surrounded by mountains – the Wasatch Front is to the east, the Oquirrhs to the west, and to the north and south are small ridges that come down from the main part of the Wasatch. All of these mountains have trails that are fun to explore. Some of them are along creeks and others head to a lake.
Here are some of my favorite hikes to go on with the kids Continue reading
Fun Hikes With Kids In Utah
Hiking with kids is a day playing in the Rocky Mountains with your family.
There is nothing I enjoy quite as much as spending a day with my family out for a walk in the mountains. Exploring the mountains with your family is an adventure. You never know what you are going to come across on the trail – maybe you will see a big mammal grazing in a meadow or come across some really strange looking bug.
These hikes are some of my favorites in Utah. They are between 2 and 6 miles long, making them a bit hard for very small kids, but not too long for most five and six year olds. Continue reading
Hiking With Kids – Have Fun and Smell the Flowers
I love hiking, especially in the Rocky Mountains. Prior to my owners having kids and being parents I loved to spend the day wandering in the mountains, pushing my body to its limit to see how far I could go and what I could see. A ten-mile round trip hike was a nice way to spend the day.
As I have learned, hiking with kids is not the same as hiking with just adults. With adults, a hike tends to be focused on getting to a distant goal, such as a mountain peak or lake. In contrast, with kids it is all about the journey and not the destination.
Change Your Mindset – Go Slow and Enjoy the Journey Continue reading