Exploring Nature with Your Senses: Hearing
While wandering through nature, we all take in our surroundings using our senses. We smell flowers, touch tree bark, listen […]
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Exploring Nature with Your Senses: Sight
While wandering through nature, we all take in our surroundings using our senses. We smell flowers, touch tree bark, listen […]
Exploring Nature with Your Senses: Touch
While wandering through nature, we all take in our surroundings using our senses. We smell flowers, touch tree bark, listen […]
Inspiring Ways to Celebrate the Fall Equinox with Your Family
What is the Fall Equinox? Also called the Autumnal or September equinox, the fall equinox marks the beginning of fall […]
The “Unplugged” Family Challenge
In partnership with our friends at Retrospec What is Earth Day? Earth Day found its start in 1970 as a […]
Kids’ Perspective: 5 things kids like about hiking in the rain and cold
Cooler, wet temperatures and shorter days tend to keep families indoors during this time of year. It’s a lot of […]
Explore the Spooky Side of Nature this Fall
It’s that time of year. The air is cooler, the leaves are changing colors and brightening up the trees and […]
First time hiking with kids? Helpful tips to get out on trail
Originally posted January 2018. When we start something new, we tend to need extra help. Heck! When my family returns […]
How the Introvert Can Build a Real Community with Hike it Baby
When Social Anxiety Hits Everyone begins walking down the trail. Parents are asking each other questions and swapping stories. You […]
What to do if You’re Aging Out of Hike It Baby
Our kids grow up, and it happens fast. Faster, in fact, than we as parents can anticipate, and certainly faster […]
Outdoor Family Instagram Accounts We Love to Follow Right Now
Inspiration for the Outdoor Family There is a wide range of amazing outdoor families on Instagram that will make you […]
Hiking Etiquette Tips for Every Trail
We love this image the National Park Service shared on their Facebook page about hiking etiquette. Although our National Park […]
Babies and Toddlers Lead Trail Cleanup Hikes Across the US and Canada in Hike it Baby’s Annual Together We Hike Event
Celebrating Success by Giving Back To commemorate their sixth anniversary as a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to getting families outdoors, Hike […]
How to teach your kids to be kind in nature
“Random Acts of Kindness” is a phrase everyone knows. It’s in our culture and our vocabulary. But how does it […]
3 Hikes for Families with Young Children in Michigan
Looking for that perfect hike in Michigan for young children? Whether you’re new to hiking with your baby or toddler, […]
Tandem Babywearing Tips – How to Carry Two Small Hikers
Whether your own family is growing, you have twins or you’re helping out a friend by watching their child, adding […]
Nature Based Scavenger Hunts, your new hiking friend
There are days that getting my kids to agree to a hike is like pulling teeth. You’d think they never […]
Parenting Outdoors : No Plan Survives
When my husband and I found out we were expecting our first child, we made a parenting plan like many […]
Hiking Failures
Hiking with kids is an adventure. Sometimes a fulfilling success, sometimes a complete failure. Kids are volatile and make everything […]
10 Life Lessons Learned from Hiking with my Son
As my only child, Neko, goes off to Kindergarten, I think about all the wonderful times together, when it was […]
Grow that newfound love for the outdoors
The local parks are so much busier than they were just a few weeks ago! Have you noticed that too? […]
Tips for Joining or Leading a Hike for the First Time
Hike it Baby is so happy that Stephanie worked up the courage to lead her first hike! She has generously […]
Leave No Trace Part 2- “Choose The Right Path”
This is Part Two of our Leave No Trace Series: Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces I live in Boulder, […]
