The Campground Owners of New York association is getting campers excited about geocaching through a 15-campground geocaching passport program launching June 1.

Audiobooks For Your Kids is an iPhone app designed to keep your kids engaged in high-quality classic literature. Perfect for road trips, waiting rooms, and even quiet moments at home. A no-frills app for 99 cents, the app is co-created by traveling mom (and bookworm) Elizabeth Rodgers from Boise, Idaho.

How do you teach your kids to enjoy hiking? Jeff Alt is passionate about hiking. His son was taken on his first hike at eight weeks and Jeff speaks and writes about hiking every day. We asked him for tips on getting our kids off the couch.

There’s a new pirate movie in theaters, but let’s face it, pirates are popular any time. Especially with kids. And dads. We researched the best family-friendly pirate celebrations, and here are our suggestions.

We announce our picks for the Top 10 Summer Festivals for Families. Every year we pick the best of the best summer festivals for families who like to road trip. This year’s list includes some new and some iconic festivals — we’d love to hear what festivals your family never misses.

The greenest restaurant in the city of Chicago, third-party certified by the Green Restaurant Association, Uncommon Ground teaches us about urban farming and sustainability in a way that’s easy to digest.

The danger with starting a family road trip in Albuquerque is that your kids will not want to leave the city. I truly do not know another city that has as many family friendly attractions. So here’s a city road trip that only ventures a short distance north and west from Albuquerque.

Chances are, when you tell the family that you want to take a trip to learn about the Civil War, you’re not going to get the reaction they show in the Disney commercials when the family gets the big announcement. And, that’s OK. It’s important to learn not to pre-judge. Even if “civil war” does sound pretty boring.

For most of us, planning a road trip to Alaska is as daunting as the state itself. A “lifetime” journey for the adventuresome lot, if you’re ever going to need a guidebook to jump start your vacation planning, this list will get you one step closer to the Great North.

Taking a road trip to Alaska? We asked the expert editors at The MILEPOST to give us some little known facts and tips about driving to Alaska with the family.

So when your wife calmly agrees to chuck-it-all, sell the house and hit the road with 3 young children in tow there will naturally be some element of disbelief, like maybe she’s just messing with …

Road trips are great. As a family, we love loading up the car and hitting the road. But I will be the last to tell you road trips are easy. If they were, there would …

We’ve all been there. It’s late. Everyone’s tired. Everyone is cranky. And that is the night you pick the restaurant that takes 30 minutes to get drinks and bread to the table. We’re normally all about not taking screens on vacation. But, sometimes, well it’s just an emergency.