Where Should My Family Go? A National Parks Road Trip - Part I

Torn between two national park road trips - should they choose Will's or Jim's?

Happy Friday! This week we got a great question from a new reader looking to take their family on a first national parks road trip - how exciting! Casey is torn between a northwest and a southwest national parks road trip. I am in favor of the northwest road trip and will make my case here. Jim’s going to make his argument in favor of the southwest road trip next week. You be the judge (I’m right).

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Here’s Casey’s email:

Good Morning,

My family (6 people, kids aged 14, 10, 7, and <1) is planning on doing a 3-week road trip to visit national parks. We are not completely sold on which ones we will visit, and this will be our first National Park Road trip, so I would greatly appreciate any input/tips you could provide. We're looking at flight and rental car costs first and then trying to plan how long for each place, so we are fairl…