Hiking Glacier National Park with Toddlers

This past summer we had the opportunity to spend two weeks exploring in and around Glacier National Park. This National Park experiences extremely high visitor usage during the summer and is the tenth most visited National Park in the country. In 2017 alone the park had 3.31 million visitors. What is truly shocking about that number of visitors is the fact that in 2008, just 9 years previously, the park recorded only 1.81 million visitors. Due to the high number of visitors; finding kid-friendly hikes that aren’t ridiculously over crowded is definitely a challenge. In the end we found 5…

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Outdoor Donkey – StayPut Connect Picnic Blanket

Companies frequently contact us asking to review or promote their products. More often than not we turn them down as we don’t like the quality or don’t think it’s a product that families should invest in. We were a bit hesitant to test and review the StayPut Connect™ Picnic Blanket because we weren’t sure what would be special about a blanket? However, the company that makes them, Outdoor Donkey, is based here in Minnesota and we instantly connected with the founder and owner, Sean. We love supporting our local companies and appreciated this company’s attention to detail. They made the…

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