Looking for something to do this weekend? All across the nation, hundreds of museums are joining with the Smithsonians to provide free general admission this Saturday, September 26th.
Participating venues perfect for kids include:
California
- Chabot Space & Science Center – Oakland
- Contemporary Jewish Museum – San Francisco (Exhibit on the author, Maurice Sendak of Where the Wild Things Are)
- Coyote Point Museum for Environmental Education – San Mateo
- Exploratorium – San Francisco
- Hiller Aviation Museum – San Carlos
- Quail Botanical Gardens – Encinitas
- San Diego Air and Space Museum – San Diego
- San Diego Natural History Museum – San Diego
- Skirball Museum – Los Angelos
- Zeum : San Francisco’s Children’s Museum – San Francisco
Florida
- G.WIZ – The Science Center – Sarasota
- The Pier Aquarium – St. Petersburg
Illinois
- Kline Creek Farm – West Chicago
- Willowbrook Wildlife Center – Willowbrook
- Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum – Chicago
Maryland
- Chesapeake Children’s Museum – Annapolis
- The Children’s Museum of Rose Hill Manor Park – Frederick
For a full list of participating museums in each state across the country, go here.
You must present the Museum Day admission card to receive free general admission at participating Museum Day locations. Go to the Smithsonian site to download your own Free Museum Day admission card.
Go to Trekaroo for more ideas on activities for kids in the San Francsico Bay Area.
Not a local? Here are kid-friendly hotels in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Esther Lee is a contributing author on Trekaroo – a reviews site dedicated to exploring and traveling with kids.
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Growing up as a kid on the East Coast, I loved hearing on the radio “Trinity Middle School-Delayed 2 hours…Turkey Hill Elementary School – Closed…” It was a Snow Day! I’d grab my friends, dust off our 6 foot toboggan and ask mom to drop us all off to find the tallest, fastest, and longest runs in Orange, Connecticut.
Living here in the Bay Area, it’s a bit more challenging to acclimate my 2 year old to the joys of whizzing down a hill into a pile of snow and giggles.
Luckily, Tahoe’s not to far away and there be plenty of slopes to choose from that don’t have skiers and snowboarders jamming on them. Some of them are free, some close to free, but all of them guarantee that your kids will have a great time.
It’s also a great way for the entire family to enjoy the snow together without dealing with different levels of skill. Here’s a list of all the groomed tubing runs in Tahoe:
- Kingvale Tubing And Sledding Center
- Sledding at Boreal Mountain Playground
- Sledding & Tubing at Soda Springs Winter Resort
- Tube & Saucer Hill at Hansen’s Resort
- Tubing Hill at Northstar-at-Tahoe
- Tubing at Sierra-at-Tahoe
- Tubing at Squaw Valley
- Granlibakken Ski Area
- Tahoe Donner Snow Play Area
- Kirkwood Slide Mountain Tubing Hill
For a full list of Places to Go Sledding or Tubing in Lake Tahoe, click here. Feel free to add any that we’ve missed.
Race you down the hill!
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