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amother
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 Thu, Jul 18 2024, 9:20 pm
Doing mommy camp 2nd half and wondering if anyone has good day trip ideas for me up to an hour away from lakewood. Looking for fresh ideas. Thanks
Ages 5,9,12
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amother
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 9:58 pm
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Did you ever go to diggerland
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amother
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 10:12 pm
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Thanks for the playground link. Been to both these great places. Keep em coming!
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BusyBoys
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 10:35 pm
Vegetable/ fruit picking?
Cape may zoo
Jackson sprinkler park
American dream
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mom!
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 10:54 pm
Manesquan Resevior
Story Book Land (not cheap but definitely a full day)
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 10:58 pm
Philadelphia, Staten Island, and Trenton are all an hour away have you gone to all of them?
I think the Crayola Factory is an hour away
https://www.crayolaexperience.com/easton
Your 12 year old might be to big for this, have you tried to ride around town in one of the Lakewood Shuttles?
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amother
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 11:21 pm
| GLUE wrote: | Philadelphia, Staten Island, and Trenton are all an hour away have you gone to all of them?
I think the Crayola Factory is an hour away
https://www.crayolaexperience.com/easton
Your 12 year old might be to big for this, have you tried to ride around town in one of the Lakewood Shuttles? |
I've been to all randomly. Any specific places you can recommend?
Actually love the idea of the lakewood shuttle! We've never done that. Is there a place to look, up the routes?
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 11:30 pm
| amother OP wrote: | I've been to all randomly. Any specific places you can recommend?
Actually love the idea of the lakewood shuttle! We've never done that. Is there a place to look, up the routes? |
https://www.lakewoodnj.gov/ima.....3.pdf
Not all the routes are updated, 732-929-6929 has some more updated info for some of the routes.
the Westgate eastbound does not seem to be running this summer, through nobody is telling me why or if it is. Very frustrating
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Have you ever gone bridge walking? I never did but I heard from some people that there kids liked it. Here is info about the Ben Franklin
https://www.drpa.org/bridges/b.....y.asp
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amother
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 11:30 pm
Fort Mott/fort Delaware
Cape may zoo
Staten Island ferry /governors island
Walk across a bridge
There is manasquan bridge with playground.
But someone was just telling me about a much larger bridge with great walking path
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amother
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 11:50 pm
| amother Pearl wrote: | Fort Mott/fort Delaware
Cape may zoo
Staten Island ferry /governors island
Walk across a bridge
There is manasquan bridge with playground.
But someone was just telling me about a much larger bridge with great walking path |
Thanks been to these. All great. Would love to hear about this bridge if you could get info.
To the next poster fyi popcorn park zoo doesn't allow feeding anymore which was the whole fun.
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amother
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 11:55 pm
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If you like the shuttle idea…we one took the train on the shore for fun. Like point pleasant area.
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Notsobusy
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Thu, Jul 18 2024, 11:57 pm
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Staten island zoo, botanical gardens and children's museum are all right near each other. My kids enjoy all of them. We've also gone to one of them plus the Staten island ferry which is free and a lot of fun.
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amother
Honeydew
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Fri, Jul 19 2024, 1:52 am
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You can do family bikes in Philly
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DVOM
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Fri, Jul 19 2024, 6:47 am
We love anything with water
Digging for fossils in Big brook in Colts Neck- bring a sand sifter and little shovels. There's a good fossil guide posted at the trailhead that you can snap a picture of to try to identify what you find. Short hike down to the brook, and then you can hike in the water until you find a good spot to dig and sift. We've found shark teeth, squid pens, fossilized deer horns, shells. This is our absolute favorite summer activity.
Barneget Bay lighthouse- climb the lighthouse, walk on the breakers and watch the fishermen, if your willing to hike a bit you can walk about an hour until the end of the breakers and you'll be at a beautiful, almost always empty beach.
Cactus Island State Park - has a nice little natural History museum at the park entrance, pretty boardwalk hike over the marshes, really nice little spots to wade in the water further on in the park with beautiful views of boats in Barneget Bay.
Island Beach State Park - we go a lot during shoulder season (Pesach to start of July, start of school until after succos) when it's truly empty if your willing to walk away from the beach access points for 30 min or so. We love to fill our beach wagon full of wood from our backyard, bring shovels and marshmallows, and make bonfires on the beach at sundown. Even in the middle of the summer, if you go at 5-6pm, the place is pretty empty.
I love summer ☺️
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amother
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Fri, Jul 19 2024, 6:51 am
| amother Pearl wrote: | | If you like the shuttle idea…we one took the train on the shore for fun. Like point pleasant area. |
Where can I find info on this train? My kids would love it
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Fri, Jul 19 2024, 7:13 am
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John C Bartlett State Park. Great splash pad and cute playground. Right off the water, but no beach
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