Frommer's National Parks with Kids:

by Kurt Repanshek

Book Overview

According to the Travel Industry Association of America, more than 84 million Americans visited a U.S. national park in the past five years Almost half of American tourists plan to visit a national park The National Park Service has started a campaign of programs and activities that appeal to children, including junior ranger programs and online discovery activities

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471747033
• ISBN13: 9780471747031
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Frommer's
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

2 adults and 1 teenager

Helpful in making comfortable but affordable reservations. Would be most helpful for those with strollers, helpful for us to get started. Glad I purchased it.

We love this book

There are probably a jillion books about National Parks, but this one has the information a family with growing kids needs to make the most of visits to them. With this book as a guide, we have already visited over a dozen East Coast parks, and it has been of great assistance, especially in helping maximize the experience for the parks we only had a limited time to enjoy. We continue to use it to help map out our trips, we will be hitting 3-4 more parks this summer.

GREAT for the parks it covers, but doesn't cover enough

I found the information in this book much more useful than any other travel guide I have purchased. The lodging information for Yellowstone, for example, describes the state of specific room types at each location! This book's one failing is its skimpy selection of parks.

Excellent

I really like this book. While it is supposedly geared for kids, I think it's very useful for finding interesting things to do at National Parks for everybody. I don't know why I didn't know this - but when I looked at the table of contents I realized just how few National Parks there are in the East. One side effect of reading this book is that it's made me realize what a precious resource these National Parks are to all of us, and it makes me wonder why there aren't more of them.