Rina Baraz Nehdar

The Steel Cur­tain roller coast­er is locat­ed in Steel­ers Coun­try in Ken­ny­wood, the first ever theme park area and coast­er to be named after a pro­fes­sion­al sports fran­chise, specif­i­cal­ly the Pitts­burgh Steelers. There’s anoth­er area called Kid­dieland, which is devot­ed to clas­sic attrac­tions for lit­tle ones like a mer­ry-go-round. Found­ed in 1898, the Monon­ga­hela Street Rail­way Com­pa­ny leased a pop­u­lar pic­nic site, Ken­ny’s Grove, from Charles Ken­ny in order to open a trol­ley park to encour­age peo­ple to use the com­pa­ny’s trol­ley cars. If you’d like to stay clos­er to down­town Pitts­burgh, the Fair­mount is arguably the nicest hotel in Pitts­burgh, that’s actu­al­ly where celebri­ties usu­al­ly stay when they are in town film­ing movies!

I spent so much of my child­hood going to Braves base­ball games in Atlanta that I was sure that’s what the nation­al anthem meant (“and the home of the … Braves?”). Fam­i­lies also can tour His­toric Ebenez­er Bap­tist Church where King was co-pas­tor, an antique fire sta­tion that once served the area, and the vis­i­tors cen­ter that fea­tures an exhib­it espe­cial­ly for chil­dren. Mountains Hotels near Cen­ten­ni­al Olympic Park, like Hyatt Place or Embassy Suites, are close to the Geor­gia Aquar­i­um and the World of Coca-Cola R. Thomas’s gourmet dish­es are veg­e­tar­i­an-friend­ly, and their kids’ menu is pop­u­lar for offer­ing child­hood sta­ples like peanut

Glen Ivy Hot Springs is the ide­al Los Ange­les day trip or week­end get­away oasis with pools made of dreams, deli­cious Cal­i­for­nia-grown food, mud baths, a grot­to, min­er­al baths, and mas­sages. Typ­i­cal­ly Glen Ivy Hot Springs offers some evening events that are great to enjoy with a glass of wine or two, but they have stopped the evening activ­i­ties for now because of COVID. If you want to make a week­end out of your trip to Glen Ivy Hot Springs, then I would take a day to vis­it some of the local winer­ies because Cal­i­for­nia wine is amaz­ing and even bet­ter when you get to expe­ri­ence it where it is grown. The clos­est place to stay is Stay­bridge Suites if you would like to make a week­end out of your trip, but you can also make Glen Ivy Hot Springs a day trip!