School is officially out! Macaroni Kid has complied our top 75 Summer Day Trips to entertain and educate your mini Macs all summer long. We've covered everything from beaches, lakes, water parks, state parks, museums, farms and zoos so go explore, discover, and have fun!
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Amazing Aquariums
1. Adventure Aquarium - Camden, NJ
2. Maritime Aquarium - Norwalk, CT
3. Mystic Aquarium - Mystic, CT
Boardwalk Blast
4. Coney Island - Coney Island, NY
5. Jenkinson's Boardwalk - Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
6. Seaside Heights - Seaside Heights, NJ
Come Sail Away
7. Barnegat Bay Sailboat Charters - Barnegat Bay, NJ
8. Clearwater - Beacon, NY
9. Hackensack Riverkeeper - Hackensack, NJ
10. Tenafly Nature Center - Tenafly, NJ
Farm Fun
11. Alstede Farm - Chester, NJ
12. Terhune Orchards - Princeton, NJ
13. Von Thun Farms - Monmouth Junction, NJ
Glorious Gardens
14. Everett Children's Adventure Garden at NY Botanical Garden - Bronx, NY
15. New Jersey Botanical Garden - Ringwood, NJ
16. Planting Fields Arboretum - Oyster Bay, NY
It's A Shore Thing
17. Belmar - Belmar, NJ
18. Spring Lake - Spring Lake, NJ
19. Sandy Hook - Sandy Hook, NJ
20. 7 Presidents Oceanfront Park - Long Branch, NJ
Lake Lovin'
21. Hopatcong State Park - Landing, NJ
22. Lake Welch at Harriman State Park - Stony Point, NY
23. Shepherd Lake - Ringwood, NJ
24. Wawayanda State Park - Hewitt, NJ
Marvelous Museums
25. American Museum of Natural History - New York, NY
26. Children's Museum of Manhattan - New York, NY
27. Children's Museum of the Arts - New York, NY
28. Discovery Times Square - New York, NY
29. Liberty Science Center - Jersey City, NJ
30. Long Island Children's Museum - Garden City, NY
31. Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, NY
32. National Baseball Hall of Fame - Cooperstown, NY
33. Sony Wonder Technology Lab - New York, NY
34. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island - Jersey City, NJ
35. Stepping Stones Museum for Children - Norwalk, CT
36. Sterling Hill Mining Museum - Ogdensburg, NJ
37. West Point Museum - West Point, NY
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
38. Cradle of Aviation Museum - Garden City, NY
39. Delaware River Railroad Excursions - Phillipsburg, NJ
40. Elmsford Raceway - Elmsford, NY
41. Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum - New York, NY
42. Northlandz - Flemington, NJ
43. Pole Position Raceway - Jersey City, NJ
44. Raceway Park - Old Bridge, NJ
Riding Rapids
45. Pocono Whitewater - Jim Thorpe, PA
46. Whitewater Rafting Adventures - Nesquehoning, PA
Thrilling Theme Parks
47. Adventureland - Farmingdale, NY
48. Crayola Experience - Easton, PA
49. Diggerland USA - West Berlin, NJ
50. Field Station: Dinosaurs - Secaucus, NJ
51. Keansburg Amusement Park - Keansburg, NJ
52. Land of Make Believe - Hope, NJ
53. Sesame Place - Langhorne, PA
54. Six Flags Great Adventure - Jackson, NJ
Time Traveling
55. Allaire Village - Wall, NJ
56. Fort Lee Historic Park - Fort Lee, NJ
57. Grover Cleveland's Birthplace - Caldwell, NJ
58. Kykuit Rockefeller Estate - Sleepy Hollow, NY
59. Monmouth Battlefield State Park - Manalapan, NJ
60. Thomas Edison National Historic Park - West Orange, NJ
61. Vanderbilt Mansion - Hyde Park, NY
Wet & Wild
62. Camelbeach - Tannersville, PA
63. Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom - Allentown, PA
64. Kalahari Resorts & Conventions - Pocono Mountains, PA
65. Runaway Rapids - Keansburg, NJ
66. Sahara Sam's Oasis - West Berlin, NJ
67. Six Flags Hurricane Harbor - Jackson, NJ
68. Splash Down Beach - Fishkill, NY
69. Splish Splash - Calverton, NY
70. Tomahawk Lake - Sparta, NJ
Zany Zoos
71. Beardsley Zoo - Bridgeport, CT
72. Bronx Zoo - Bronx, NY
73. Central Park Zoo - New York, NY
74. Space Farms Zoo - Sussex, NJ
75. Turtle Back Zoo - West Orange, NJ
