If you don't live in the Midwest, you may not know about the family resorts that draw extended families throughout the region. Year-round activities as diverse as dog sledding and zip lining offer plenty of choices. Whether you vacation in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio or Wisconsin, you will find a range of activities and resorts to choose from.
French Lick Resort, located in Indiana, has a supervised KidsFest Activity Center for kids 6 to 12 years old, with hikes, bowling, arcade games, hang-out time, cooking classes and dancing. It also has a supervised teens club for kids 13 to 18 years old. The resort has indoor and outdoor pools, biking and biking trails, a stable offering trail rides, pony rides and family carriage rides, and sports activities such as tennis, basketball, golf, volleyball and croquet .
French Lick Resort
8670 West State Road 56
French Lick, IN 47432
888-936-9360
frenchlick.com
The Grand Geneva Resort hotel in Wisconsin has the Moose Mountain Falls Waterpark, an indoor year-round waterpark with two huge water slides, a lazy river, hot tubs, an activity pool and an arcade. A stable offers year-round guided trail rides, pony rides for kids six years old and under, a petting farm and carriage rides. Seasonal sleigh rides join other winter family activities: downhill and cross country skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing.
Grand Geneva Resort and Spa
7036 Grand Geneva Way
Lake Geneva, WI 53147
800-558-3417
grandgeneva.com
The year-round Michigan family resort, Boyne Mountain, features the 88,000-square-foot Avalanche Bay Indoor Waterpark with lazy river, slides, kid's pools, climbing walls and a surf simulator. Ride the Zipline Adventure or swim in the indoor/outdoor heated pool. While you ski with older kids, children 8 months to 4 years old can go to child care. You can also ice skate, go tubing or ride a sleigh or dog sled.
Boyne Mountain
1 Boyne Mountain Road
Boyne Falls, MI 49713
231-549-6000
boyne.com
