Visitors travel from all over the country to relax in the rustic cedar home situated on 30 secluded acres. The cabin is perched on a ridge top affording a spectacular view of the surrounding hills and valley. Scenic View cabin can sleep up to ten adults. It is located less than three miles from Ash Cave state park.

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Best Nest welcomes kids and offers fishing, sledding, kite flying, wiener roasts, books, movies, games.  The three Best Nest Kids offer guided walks and often play basketball or soccer with cabin guest's children.  Sit on the deck and the watch the plentiful wildlife. Best Nest prides themselves on doing their best to not disturb nature in erecting the cabins where guests stay.

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Honey Ridge offers visitors the charm of a lovely cottage tucked among the trees in a private wooded site located on a ridge top. There is a spacious 12' x 16' deck overlooking the head of a sloping ravine to relax and sip tea while the kids play below in the yard.  And even better yet, there is a romantic and soothing massage of a Jacuzzi for two! Honey Ridge features  a relaxed setting  for families (children are welcome!) with  two private bedrooms with queen sized beds.

Where can you go in the Hocking Hills with kids and still get lots of smiles?

"How long 'til we get there. I gotta go to the bathroom. I'm hungry. He's hitting me. My seatbelt's too tight. I gotta go to the bathroom. She's touching me again. I'm too hot. I'm too cold. I don't feel too good. . . "

Ah, these are the blood-curdling, spine-tingling echoes coming from just about every back seat, on every highway  and in every car heading toward just about every family vacation across the United States.

If you're anyone who has  been forced to ride for an extended period of time in a car with kids, you've also been forced to listen to those whiny, baleful sounds creeping up along the backseat, over your headrest and banging over and over against the front windshield and into your aching ears.

You can buy all the DVD's they've ever wanted to watch, play all the music they want to hear and fill a garbage bag full of snacks for them to munch on while you drive, but getting to your destination still isn't going to change. It is going to be torture. It's almost as much an American tradition as apple pie and eating a cheese coney in Cincinnati. Besides they are feral kids out of their natural habitat,  restrained by skin-tight seatbelts and confined to a space so tiny between suitcases and coolers that even an undernourished mouse would feel a bit squeamish.

But even if your ride is a bit trying, your stay doesn't have to be.  Believe it or not, there are actually folks out there who like our kids almost as much as we do. And better yet, they cater to them when they come to visit.

So you want to take a vacation with the kids, huh? Here's a couple places that are a bit more kid-friendly than the back seat of a moving vehicle and are sure to make your family getaway a yearly event you'll all enjoy.

There's never a dull moment at the parks!  Hocking Hills State Park Naturalist, Pat Quackenbush, provides year around programs for all ages. Kids will love the birds of prey talks, Junior Naturalist programs and night hikes. Watch for special events throughout the year and nearly daily activities at the park.

Okay, so you like to hike by the rest of the family gets bored ambling around the woods? Try taking them on a birding trip-www.birdhocking.com. This site has trail  maps to the Hocking Region and fun tips on birding.

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