Recreation Close To Home
Today’s challenge from Nature For Kids: Find recreation close to your home; someplace you can go that’s conveniently close and that has endless exploring opportunities, a park, a trail or even just a remote wooded area. Call it your swift sanctuary or rapid retreat. Whatever you call it, use it often.
We have four paralleling lines where I live; the train tracks, Main Street, the river and the freeway. Although Main Street’s old architecture, bakery, art gallery, library and fire station are fun to visit, my favorite line to explore with the kids is the river. When we moved to this small town I was surprised to find such an extensive greenway system in place, which follows the river through town and beyond the outskirts. On those days when we’re not feeling up for a big adventure that requires getting in the car, we head to the river. It’s just a jaunt from our front door. And you know what Bilbo Baggins says, “It’s a dangerous business…going out of your door. If you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
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Our apartment complex backs up to a city refuge “Mt Seqoyah” and there is an extensive trail system up the “mountain.” Our boys love to have their own maps of the trails and we have tried to hike on all of them–we’re still finding new paths, though!
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Millcreek Canyon, just east of Salt Lake City. It can be pretty crowded (especially on even days when mountain bikes are allowed), but once you get off the Pipeline and Dog Lake trails you can hike for hours without seeing too many other people. On odd-numbered days, when The Steve isn’t allowed in Millcreek, we’ll hit Neff’s Canyon. Neff’s doesn’t offer as many opportunities (just two trails), but it’s a nice hike up the mountain.
Thank you for visiting TheOutdoorMom.com! All of the places mentioned here are great. To return the favor, a fantastic place for kids to roam in southern Utah is Goblin Valley. So many places to hike, and fun alien looking hoodoos to play around. Hope to hear from you again!