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5 Tips on How You Can Spend an Unforgettable Family Vacation in a Park

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April 22, 2019
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Families enjoying the park

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Surrounding yourself with nature is a great way to improve both your mental and physical health. There’s no shortage of benefits to spending weekends with your kids in a park, and it’s scientifically proven that spending time outside is good for you, offering “significant and wide-ranging health benefits”.

In our fast-paced world, it’s more important than ever before for us to spend as much time as we can with our families. For most of us, we’re busy during the week, and so that leaves us the weekends. That’s why it’s important to use your weekends and any holidays to make unforgettable memories with the rest of your family.

The good news is that you don’t have to go on expensive vacations or travel the world to build fantastic memories with your children and your significant other. Here are five great ways to spend an unforgettable family vacation in a park.

Leave gadgets at home

As tempting as it is to take all of your gadgets along with you, it’s good to leave as many of them at home as possible so that you can focus on the moment instead of getting caught up in whatever the latest drama is on social networking sites. You may still want to take at least one phone for emergencies and a digital camera or two to capture some photographs, but try to leave consoles and laptops behind unless they’re vital.

Plan ahead of time

What does the best dissertation service have in common with the best family vacation? It all comes down to planning. When your kids write dissertations, they plan them ahead of time. When you build an extension on your home or decide to launch a new business, you plan it ahead of time. The best family vacations don’t just come about by accident: they take a lot of planning.

Do activities

Many parks offer the opportunity for families to take part in different activities, from nature trails to mountain biking, archery and more. During the planning stage, be sure to see which activities are on offer and to take advantage of as many of them as possible. They’re a great way to make new memories, but they can also teach you life skills that will stand you and your children in good stead for the rest of your lives.

Get schoolwork done in advance

Schoolwork is important and so it should always take precedence over family holidays. The good news is that if you help your kids to get any homework done in advance of the holiday, perhaps using tools like UK Assignment Holic to meet the deadline, you can forget all about school and work for the weekend and focus on having some fun.

Have fun!

Above all else, you need to have fun, and if you have to break some of these other rules to get there then so be it. Remember, this time is for you and your family, and so only you can decide how best to spend it. With that said, the tips in this article should at least help you to get started, and with everything else prepared you can focus on doing what you do best: enjoying yourselves as a family.


There’s a reason why we work five-day work-weeks. We need the weekends to recharge our batteries and to spend time with the people that we love. In fact, you could argue that the weekends are what give our lives meaning and which allow us to keep our sanity during high-pressure situations in the workplace.

The good news is that spending time outside can be a great way to spend time with your family while simultaneously enjoying benefits like reduced stress and improved mental health. That makes parks a logical destination, especially because you can prolong your visit by camping or staying in a campervan. If not, a day trip is better than no trip at all, and you don’t have to spend a huge amount of time outside to reap the benefits.

And so if you haven’t booked a trip to a park, perhaps it’s time for you to get started. Spend some time looking at locations near you and get a date in your diary. Trust us: you won’t regret it.

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