travel dates: July, 2023 Look! I put a puffin picture right at the top, so no one would have to wait for puffins for another second! Puffins are amazing. And the little town of Elliston in Newfoundland is one of the best places in the world to see them up close. Lots and lots and lots […]
15 Things to Do in St. John’s, Newfoundland with Kids and Teens (and Parents and Grandparents)
travel dates: July, 2023 This is going to be a long one! “Go east and then keep on going. You’ll eventually find the oldest city in North America,” tweeted the Newfoundland and Labrador tourism account back in 2018. They meant St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador’s capital and its biggest city by far (it’s nine times […]
Don’t Skip Fogo Island/Brimstone Head RV Park: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June 2023 We watched a lot of YouTube videos about Newfoundland while we were planning our trip. One particularly memorable one featured a day trip to Fogo Island, off the north central coast of Newfoundland; the title was “Fogo or No Go,” and the couple (whose Newfoundland videos we really enjoyed overall) did […]
Grand Falls Windsor and Sanger Memorial RV Park: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: June 2023 A trip to Newfoundland usually involves a lot traversing the perimeter, clinging to the coast and rarely letting the ocean out of your sight for very long. It’s an island, after all. I won’t pretend that I think this approach to touring is wrongheaded; Newfoundland’s coast is stunningly beautiful, and you […]
Gros Morne/Norris Point KOA Review: Newfoundland’s Only KOA!
travel dates: June 2023 Newfoundland has a grand total of one KOA, but it’s a good one. We ended up staying at the Gros Morne/Norris Point KOA for an entire week after we cut a few days out of our Viking Trail plans, and it was a great base camp for exploring the northern side […]
Gros Morne National Park, North Side Edition: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: June, 2023 To the extent that Gros Morne National Park has a busy side, it’s the area north of Bonne Bay, where you’ll find the touristy little town of Rocky Harbour, popular excursions like the Western Brook Pond Tour, and Gros Morne mountain itself. After our aborted trip up the Great Northern Peninsula, […]
Port Au Choix and the Great Northern Peninsula, Briefly: RVing Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
Travel dates: June, 2023 North of Gros Morne National Park, Highway 430–aka The Viking Trail– hugs the western coast of Newfoundland for 150 miles or so up the Great Northern Peninsula, before turning eastward, finally ending in the town of St. Anthony. The drive is beautiful and the road surprisingly good by Newfoundland standards. People […]
Water’s Edge Gros Morne Campground Review: Exploring Newfoundland with Kids and Teens
travel dates: June, 2023 Back in 2018 we went on a wretched, miserable whale watch on a boat that left from Provincetown, MA. I blogged about it here. You might think, in exchange for the terror and seasickness, we would at least have had some amazing whale sightings. But, in fact, we had better views […]
Cavendish Campground at Prince Edward Island National Park: A Review
Travel dates: July 13-17, 2018 (I messed up and forgot to write this back when I was covering PEI! Read about everything else we did in Cavendish here) It was the best of campgrounds; it was the worst of campgrounds… Our stay at Cavendish Campground in Prince Edward Island National Park started off on a very bad note: […]
Fundy National Park and Hopewell Rocks with Kids and Teens
travel dates: July 17-19, 2018 Many years ago, I heard of the Bay of Fundy for the first time. A co-worker of Dave’s at the Museum of Science in Boston went there for some kind of research trip, and he told me about it and about the Really Impressive Tides. So I had that information […]