any interesting day trips or ideas to do with family over vacation? (Hicksville: garden, moving)

[amyla]

hi-any ideas for the week/weekend coming up within an hour drive or so? thanks

[lubby]

Museums, there are many on LI, whailing museum, sagamore hill, vanderbilt, LI maritime museum, LI carriage house. Take in a movie, bowling, roller skating at United Skates of America in Hicksville, Fun zone.

[daisyLI]

Nassau County art museum in Roslyn
Long Island Children's Museum in Garden City (also Cradle of Aviation and Firefighter's museum)
aquarium in Riverhead

[Walter Greenspan]

For things to do on Lawn Guyland, here are three sites that also offer weekly eMail newsletters: LongIsland.com, About Long Island NY and Life On Long Island; and, here's what could be the best site: Long Island Convention & Visitors Bureau and Sports Commission.

And, li4kids, is especially for the kinder.

[NYTom]

Go skiing

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by daisyLI

Nassau County art museum in Roslyn

The Nassau County Museum of Art is in Roslyn Harbor ("Roslyn, NY 11576" mailing address).

Originally Posted by daisyLI

Long Island Children's Museum in Garden City (also Cradle of Aviation and Firefighter's museum)

All 3 are in East Garden City (Garden City, NY 11530" mailing address)..

[DawnSells]

How old are your kids? What about geocaching??? It is bascially a treasure hunt using GPS. You can go online to find the coordinates. If you navigate correctly you will uncover a treasure. You must leave something behind if you take something from the "treasure chest". I know there are a few things hit in Blydenburg.

[IlonaG]

we did a LOT of day trips when my daughter was little. These were among our favorites.

Sands Point Preserve: www.sandspointpreserve.org

If you leave Long Island The Bronx Zoo is about an hour's drive and is open year round:
www.bronxzoo.com

About 45 minutes from the Throgs Neck Bridge in CT - Norwalk Aquarium (was my daughter's favorite place to go when she was younger and now at 20 it's still her favorite Aquarium): www.maritimeaquarium.org

[IlonaG]

Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan

The Nassau County Museum of Art is in Roslyn Harbor ("Roslyn, NY 11576" mailing address).

All 3 are in East Garden City (Garden City, NY 11530" mailing address)..

We went to the Art Museum in Roslyn when my daughter was about 8. We found it to be boring unless you kids are really really interested in Art. Plus the people who work there were very snooty

Better ideas for Museums that are fun and interactive are the Children's Museum (someone already mentioned) and if you go into Queens - the Flushing Meadows Hall of Science www.nysci.org.

Also the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria (great museum with interactive hands on things): www.movingimage.us

As I said - we did lots and lots of day trips

[majortom1981]

You can always have brunch at the riverhead(awesome brunch) project and then go to the riverhead aquarium.