Within an hour or so of where you live...

[crazyme5kids]

If a person is visiting your area, name 5 things that might be fun or interesting to see or do.

I live on Long Island in New York. Here's my list:

1: Head to the farthest point east and you'll get to Montauk Point. Tour the light house and hike around, it's very pretty. Lots of beautiful beaches here on LI, Take a ferry to Fire Island, or stop off at my favorite beach, Robert Mosses. Like a nice boardwalk? Head over to Jones beach.

2: Splish Splash water park.

3: NYC, need I say more?

4: Queens Science Museum, fun way to spend the day with the kids.

5: Visit Sagamore Hill which was Teddy Rooservelt's home. Also stop by the Vanderbuilt museum and Planetarium.

 

[sweet angel]

I live in Ocean County, NJ.

Long Beach Island
Seaside
Point Pleasant Beach
The Wildwoods
Cape May
Atlantic City
Lucy the Elephant
Historic Smithville
Six Flags Great Adventure
Jackson Outlets
Barnegat Lighthouse
Cape May Zoo
Lakewood Blueclaws minor league baseball
Giants stadium (okay, maybe 1-1/2 hours)
PNC Bank Arts Center (outdoor entertainment venue)

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

We live in Richmond VA and within an hour or so you can visit...

Williamsburg
Virginia Beach
Monticello
The Blue Ridge Mountains/Skyline Drive
Washington D.C
Potomac Mills for more shopping than one person should be allowed to do
Paramounts Kings Dominion
Busch Gardens

Oh.. and if the people in Manassas hadn't ruined it for us We could have had a Disney Theme Park - Disney's America

 

[Blondie]

Within an hour or so.....let me see....

Washington, D.C.
Paramount's Kings Dominion
Luray Caverns
Colonial Williamsburg &
Busch Gardens (a little more than an hour away and so worth the trip!)

 

[monarchsfan16]

I live just outside of Manchester, NH

The beach
Tilton (sales tax free shopping outlets)
Manchester Monarchs (hockey)
New Hampshire Fisher Cats (minor league baseball)
If you like history there's always the state capital...
UNH Wildcats (football, hockey, any other sport, take your pick-football and hockey are the best though)

Not really much to do within an hour of me. If you said within 2 or 3 hours, you'd have a lot, because 2-3 hours north of here is the White Mountain region, which has sooo much to do. Plenty of professional and collegiate sports around here though. There are 2 other colleges in my area, but UNH has the best sports

 

[kerrynic78]

Crazyme5kids- I love Splish Splash! My entire family lives on LI so as a kid I was there every summer and then hitting the outlets afterwards. I miss LI so much!

 

[KarenAylwood]

I live in Norfolk, VA.

1. Colonial Williamsburg

2. Busch Gardens & Water Country USA

3. Virginia Marine Science Museum (renamed Virginia Aquarium recently)

4. Va Beach

5. Stuff right in Norfolk: Va Zoo (little ghetto, but fun!), Nauticus (Naval Museum, mostly free), Battleship Wisconsin (free), Waterside (cute area, tons of restaurants), Old Towne Portsmouth (across the river), in Portsmouth: The Commodore Theater (oldest dinner theater of it's kind showing first run movies)

There's a bunch of other stuff in this area too. A lot that I haven't done yet as I've only lived here since August.

 

[Sparx]

Rebel Hill. Civil War battle took place there. (battle of Rebel Hill.) thats about a minute and a half away.

Cumberland Caverns. Large cave system. great for tourists. about thirty minutes away

Fall Creek Falls. The jungle book was filmed there. Probably more than an hour, but not by much.

Our Many Nurseries. We are the Nursery Capital of the world, don'tchaknow.

There is a play house about an hour away too.

I live abotu an hour and a half south east of Nashville in Middle Tennessee.

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

I live in Meredith New Hampshire

Surf Coaster
Fun Spot
Science Center
Weirs Beach
Portland Sea Dogs Game
Christa Mcalliff Planetarium

 

[Beth76]

In and around St. Louis, MO......

1. The Gateway Arch
2. Missouri Botanical Gardens
3. Anheuser-Busch Brewery
4. Missouri Wine Country
5. St. Louis City Museum

 

[Sleepy]

You have the following

Pompei and Ercoleo
Mt Vesuvio
Pozzuoli (where you can see the sulfer vents and awful smells from the volcano)
Teatro Di San Carlo (home of the oldest ballet school in Italy..where my son attends)
Naples Aquarium (oldest aquarium in Europe)
I think Sorrento is within 1 hour.
Baia

Any travel guide on Naples will give you the complete list.

 

[American Scrapper]

Chicago...

Sear Tower
American Girl Store
Brookfield Zoo
US Cellular Field - Home of the World Series Chamion Chicago White Sox! (& My #1 place to visit )
Navy Pier

 

[chyam]

1. The Magic Kingdom
2. EPCOT
3. MGM
4. Animal Kingdom
5. Busch Gardens
6. Universal
7. Sea World
Can you tell I love living where I live

 

[lillygator]

I live in Sarasota, Fl...


The world famous Siesta Key Beach
The Ringling Mueseum of Art
Ca D'zan
Historic Spanish Point
Mote Marine Aquarium
Selby Botanical Gardens
St Armands Circle (Boutique shopping)
Crwoley Mueseum and Nature Center
The Sarasota Ballet
Sarasota Opera
Sarasota Film Festival
Van Wezel
Oscar Scherer State Park
Myakka River State Park...


those are a few things within 10 min drive....an hour away would be things like...

Busch Gardens
Tampa Bay Bucs
Devil Rays
Ice Palace (ok formerly known as)
MOSI (Mueseum of Science and Industry)
Lowery Park Zoo
Bay Walk
St Pete Pier
etc...


there is a TON to do in this area, well pretty much all of Florida. We have these great books called "One Tank Trips" - we have three different ones and they offer some off the beaten path places to check out!

 

[crazyme5kids]

kerrynic78, can you believe I have never been to Slish Splash? My kids love it though, so I guess I need to take them at some point.

Long Island has a ton of stuff to do, I only listed a couple. You could have a great vacation here. If you want more info look at this web site: www.licvb.com.

Thanks for posting about where you live, I love to get travel ideas!

 

[AdventurerKat]

I live in Sarasota, Fl...

there is a TON to do in this area, well pretty much all of Florida. We have these great books called "One Tank Trips" - we have three different ones and they offer some off the beaten path places to check out!

What she said.

 

[DisneyStar006]

We live about 40 miles outside of London, England.

London
Windsor Castle
Legoland Windsor
Bournemouth beach
The Roman baths at Bath

 

[Danauk]

I live in the middle of England so an hour so from here would be:
London: all the free museums (Science and British are my favourites)
The west end - I love going to see the shows
Plus all the other London sights and shopping experiences.

Alton Towers, the UK's best theme park with lots of world class coasters.

Cambridge, with the university and all the lovely grounds to walk around

Milton Keynes, great shopping plus I love the snow dome and indoor skydive centre

The east coast, I love going to the sea side, Hunstanton is the closest to us.

 

[Catzeyes]

We live in the outskirts of San Juan PR.

Since I tend to avoid the main touristy places I would take my guests to the following El Yunque rain forest
Rio Camuy Caves in Camuy
Caja de Muertos
The Blue Lagoon
Phosphorescent Mosquito Bay

 

[HayGan]

Within or within 1 hour of Pittsburgh, PA

PNC Park - home of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Heinz Feild - home of the Pittsburgh Steelers and University of Pittsburgh Panthers football teams
Mellon Arena - home of the Pittsburgh Penguins and site to many concerts
Post-Gazette Pavillion - home to great outdoor concerts
The Pittsburgh Aviary
The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium (one of the best in the country)
Carnegie Museum of Natural History & Art Museum(also one of the best)
Andy Warhol Museum
Several world-class colleges and universities (Duquesne, Pitt, CMU, others)
Kennywood Amusement Park
Sandcastle Water Park
Idlewild Amusement Park & Soak City
Several county and state parks (with lots of activites - hiking, biking, swimming, white water rafting)
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Rivers with a spectacular and interesting lock & dam system (that you can take guided tours of by boat)

And I could go on with more!!!