With so many pools, beaches, and splash pads closed or complicated due to Covid social distancing requirements, the only way to beat the heat, it seems, is to take it back to nature in a way that I never thought I’d be comfortable with. Yeah, if you would have told me last year I’d be …
Quarantine-Friendly Family Field Trips
Forest Preserves Are Still Open and They’re Saving Our Sanity If you’ve been following awhile, you know I usually publish my Family Field Trip series posts on Friday, to give you ideas for the weekend ahead. But in COVID reality, the weekends just bleed into the weekdays and back again. Is a Saturday all that …
Family Field Trip: Jack’s Pumpkin Glow
Move over, pumpkin patches and haunted houses. There’s a new Halloween experience in town, and it’s LIT. OK, sorry. Bad puns aside, if your family are fans of Morton Arboretum’s Illuminations or Brookfield Zoo Lights, this Halloween lights spectacular is worth checking out. A cool evening with that unmistakable crispness in the air will have …
Family Field Trip: Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve
What do you do on those Indian summer days where it’s still blazing hot outside but the leaves are starting to turn and all the pools are long closed for the season? Mother Nature to the rescue! In summer or fall, Waterfall Glen in Darien is a gorgeous spot to explore — one of the …