Turkey Run State Park, Indiana

Show all the turkeys in your town how to spend a real weekend with the fam—not on a seesaw at the neighborhood park, but exploring a marvelous, cavern-like sandstone ravine at Turkey Run State Park. Enjoy some educational fun after you’ve soaked up the sock-knocking natural beauty of the ravines—jet over to the nature center, customized with a planetarium, and visit the commemoration cabin for Colonel Richard Lieber, the father of Indiana state parks. Looking for more outdoor shenanigans? Pack the crew on a shuttle ride to the saddle barn where you can have fun on four-legged critters, from a pony ride to a guided horseback trail ride. Stake out a place to sleep under the stars in one of the park’s many campgrounds. Still miss your seesaw? There is a playground here, too.