Non-Hunting Vacations

[ScottR]

Where do you take your family?

Yesterday on our way back from visiting with relatives we hit Devil?s Tower. The girls loved it and we had a lot of fun hiking around it.

 

[LCH]

We'll be doing the Black Hills this October. I've been through a few times, but wife/kids have not. I haven't been to Devil's Tower, we'll probably swing past and check that out as well.

Mostly we do things within a couple hours of home. Indiana has a great state park system, we camp several weekends each year at different parks.

For our bigger trips, wife/kids like the beach so we mix it up between spots in the gulf and also over on the coast. Smoky Mountains in TN and NC are fun. Every now and then we'll do a big camping trip up into Michigan or over into Ohio.

 

[Bonecollector]

We do some weekend trips within a few hours of home. However, I know that I need to take the wife to the beach each summer so that I can get to the mountains in the fall.

 

[dustin ray]

Non-hunting vacations sure you mean scouting trips

 

[mallardsx2]

Yogi Bear in the smokys once a year and Pigeon Forge once a year.

 

[Slugz]

We do some weekend trips within a few hours of home. However, I know that I need to take the wife to the beach each summer so that I can get to the mountains in the fall.

Happy wife = happy elk camp

 

[CrimsonArrow]

We hardly ever go anywhere unless it’s fishing or hunting. Because of the high cost, I’ll take the family every other year to the east cape of Mexico. Sun, sand, cocktails, and awesome fishing. If I had the money, I’d spend 6 months a year down there, and that’s saying something, because I’m a real homebody.

 

[Ikeepitcold]

My daughter does competition cheer. Not the ra ra pom pom cheer the throw the girls 15’ in the air and catch them kind. She is on a worlds team so we travel all the time during the season. We go to Florida every year and stay for a week. The comp is a 3 day event so we spend the rest of the time enjoying the beaches and restaurants.
I have gotten a few pig hunts and fishing trips while there.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Retired now so time available for travel is only limited by my budget!

When I worked, we spent most vacations on our boat in Mexico or Lake Powell. I owned a business in Cabo San Lucas and spent lots of time there. Also had a place in Loreto in Baja. Baja was on my radar as a retirement option. Things got so bad (crime," permititus" and anti gringo feelings among the locals) that I crossed it off the list.

Now we travel. Been to Hawaii several times, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica and leaving for Alaska next week.My bucket list includes Australia and some areas in the US we havn't been too.

Retirement is good.....hope the money holds out LOL!

 

[JimP]

You mean that there is a non hunting vacation?

Oh yea, it is called fishing.


But seriously when I was growing up we would spend most of our time outdoors in the woods. My parents didn't have the extra income to go on a destination vacation. But as we traveled around the western US for my dads job we would take in the areas that were around us once we lit in one place for a few weeks. Even when we were traveling we were never able to stop to take in a attraction unless it was at a gas station or cafe. My dad had to get to the next work location, drop off a trailer full of tools, find a place to live and get unpacked. This was usually during a weekend then first thing Monday morning my mom would put me and my sister into school.

But we did get to see a lot of the US doing this. Plus my mom would take us on side trips to see the local attractions or historic sites. I didn't actually go on what you would call a vacation until I was out into the working world myself, but those times when I was a kid were fantastic for what we got to see.

 

[Umpqua Hunter]

Most favorite family vacation spots:

One of the resorts on the Baja east cape. Unbelievably relaxing and can even include a couple days of fishing (marlin, dorado, tuna, pargo, roosterfish, wahoo). All meals are prepped and done family style. Back in the day the rates for kids was very good, which actually made for a relatively economical trip. This was my kids favorite.

Oregon coast, just a couple hours from us. Has clamming, crabbing, salmon fishing, bass fishing, rockfish fishing, shopping, dunes, camping, restaurants. Sometimes we would rent a condo right on the ocean.

Lake Powell in Utah/Arizona. Great for water sports, houseboating (would love to do someday) and killer striped bass fishing.

Hot springs in Eastern Oregon. Soaking in the hot mineral water. Swimming in nearby creeks, catching crawdads. Can even work in some jack rabbit hunting and antelope hunting/scouting.

 

[Hilltop]

I take my wife every other year on a Caribbean vacation. Our favorite spot has been the Rui Palace on Paradise Island. They run an all inclusive, adult only, resort. It sits next door to the Atlantis Resort but is half the price and all inclusive. On non Caribbean years, we do a family camping/fishing trip in the Wyoming mountains. We also do mini 3 day vacations a few times a year just for quick fun. Those usually are centered around youth baseball or fishing. I'm lucky in that my wife really enjoys the outdoors as well.

 

[DU4LIFE25]

Last week we were in Louisville for the NASP National Archery Tournament. We did take an extra day and ran to Nashville with the kids for the day. Not an extravagant vacation but we all had a lot of fun.

 

[280ackimp]

Fly Fishing, the mighty Mo and the Black Foot in one month !! Local tailwaters on the east coast between now and then! The east has has so much rain the local waters in the white mountains of NH and the greens of VT wont be fishable for a month or more ! The remote trout ponds of Maine are still iced in! This is killing vacations !

 

[hunter25]

Always fishing somewhere if not hunting.
Did Puerto rico tarpon last year with the kids. Just booked costa rica next year in march with the kids and grandsons.
Oklahoma spoon bill, Oregon sturgeon and next texas alligator gar.
Wife and I don't really vacation together, she goes to the Philippines every year for a few weeks. To much time in one spot doing nothing for me

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[Yell Co AR Hunter]

I was lucky as a child. My dad was military and loved to travel. We always took a family vacation some where. I have tried to do the same for my childern. I have been to the Gulf Coast, East Coast, and West Coast. It was great to go to all the beaches when I was young. Now that I am older I prefer to head to cooler areas for the summer. I love to go to Northern Minnesota or Canada fishing. Even went to Chicago last summer to take my son to football camp which was much better than Texas the prior year (heat). I am excited to be headed to Yellowstone and Grand Teton NP this summer.
Arkansas has some neat places for vacations and the great Branson is fairly close to home. Hot Spring National Park is nice with three great lakes in the area. Eureka Springs is a good historical spot (avoid the weirdos). The state parks offer everything from mountains, lakes, nature centers, and even diamond digging. Arkansas has some great trout rivers where big trout can be caught. My largest 17 lbs brown trout, 8 lbs rainbow, 5 lbs Cutthroat, and a almost 4 lbs brook trout. Dang I have blessed maybe that is why I am not ready to retire finance wise.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Luckily my wife and kids love camping. For some reason most of our camping is done in or very nears areas that are also some of our hunting areas.

 

[marcusvdk]

Florida ever few years to bring the youngsters to Disney. Mostly travel around the great state of michigan to great state parks on the lakes. Also random trips once in awhile. This year visiting family in New Hampshire

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[buckbull]

When i was married we did mostly beach vacations. Mostly to the all inclusives in Mexico and various places in Florida. We can drive to destin, FL (pan handle) in a hard day of driving. Going to Gulf Shores this year. The ex, me, and kids do one vacation a year together, something we agreed to do when we got divorced.

 

[missjordan]

Our family is planning a trip in two years to rent a camper van and drive the entire island of Iceland! Its one of those bucket list kind of trips that i really want to do. Besides planning that we take a lot of weekend trips with the camper and side by side and ride in the late spring early summer. Really like the technical trails that have lots of rock crawling


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