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Family Fun on the North Shore Walks: Outings: Agassiz Rock loop, Manchester Children’s Museum, Boston Appleton Farms Grass Rides, Hamilton Children’s Museum, Dover, NH Boardwalk Trail in Parker River Refuge, Coco Keys Water Park, Danvers Newburyport DeCordova Sculpture Museum, Lincoln Bradley Palmer State Park, Topsfield Discovery Museum, Acton Cox Reservation, Essex Drumlin Farm, Lincoln Chebacco Lake, Hamilton Franklin Park Zoo, Boston Coolidge Reservation, Magnolia Harvard Museum of Natural History, Danvers Rail Trail, Wenham Cambridge Dune walk at Crane Beach, Ipswich Maritime Heritage Center, Gloucester Halibut Park State Park, Rockport Mini golf at White Farm, Ipswich Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Minor League Baseball: Lowell, Portland, Topsfield ME, Manchester, NH Joppa Flats Education Center (Mass North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly Audubon), Newburyport Roger Williams Zoo, Providence, RI Moraine Farm, Beverly Salem Willows, Salem Family Fun Ravenswood, Gloucester Science Museum, Boston Strawberry Hill, Ipswich Stone Zoo, Stoneham on the North Shore Warren-Weld Woodland, Essex Storyland, Glen, NH Wenham Canal Path, Wenham Todd Farm Flea Market, Rowley Suggestions compiled by Wenham Lake Hiking Trails, Wenham York Zoo & Amusement Park York, ME HWMC members Other Favorites: Useful online resources: Bear Skin Neck, Rockport HW Community House Kayak and canoe with Foote Brothers Canoe, Ipswich Early Childhood Partners of Hamilton, Look for frogs in Patton Park pond, Wenham, Manchester Hamilton North Shore Kid Swimming/fishing at Pleasant Pond, Macaroni Kid (Northshore MA) Wenham Hamilton Wenham Patch Train to Ipswich or Newburyport Hamilton Wenham Library Wading pool and/or bike ride at Bradley Palmer, Topsfield Hamilton Wenham Mother’s Club Wolf Hollow on 133, Ipswich Hamilton Wenham Recreation Favorite Playgrounds: Farms: Indoor Activities: Boy Scout Park, Boxford Appleton Farms, Hamilton Artcie, Hamilton Cashman Park, Newburyport Brooksby Farm, Peabody Beanstalk Adventure Ropes Course, Dane Street Beach playground, Beverly Connors Farm, Danvers Reading Devereux Beach playground, Endicott Park, Danvers Birth to Three Family Center, Ipswich Marblehead Green Meadows Farm, Hamilton Boston Bounce, Peabody Dix Park, Beverly Marini Farm, Ipswich Brian Doser, “The Music Man” at HW Eagle’s Nest @ Essex Elementary Russell Orchards, Ipswich Community House School, Essex Spencer Peirce Farm, Newbury Children’s Piazza, Beverly Endicott Park, Danvers Smolak Farms, North Andover Chuck E Cheese, Danvers Grove Street Park, Topsfield Tendercrop Farm, Wenham/Newbury Clay Dreaming, Beverly Linwood Street playground, Ipswich Harmony Natural Learning Ctr, Newbury Lynch Park, Beverly Imagination Station at HW Rec. Dept Masconomo Park, Manchester Kid-Friendly Restaurants & Ice Iron Rail Gymnastics, Wenham Patton Park, Hamilton Cream: Laser Quest, Danvers Pirate Ship Park at Pavilion Beach, Bertucci’s, North Beverly MetroRock, Newburyport Ipswich Cherry Farm Creamery, Danvers Monkey Joe’s, Danvers Science Park at West Parish Depot Diner, North Beverly Monster Mini Golf, Danvers Elementary, Gloucester Down River Ice Cream, Ipswich Northshore Children’s Museum, Salem Stage Fort Park, Gloucester The Farm, Essex Northshore YMCA: Beverly, Ipswich, Steward School Playground, Topsfield Half Baked, Beverly Farms Salem Tea House Park, Wenham Hale Street Tavern, Beverly Farms Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Pirate Museum, Salem Beaches: Prides Pizza & Captain Dusty’s, Beverly Farms Plaster Fun Time, Salem Crane Beach, Ipswich Jule’s Kitchen & White Farm Ice Cream, Sky Zone, Danvers Dane Street Beach, Beverly Ipswich Storytime at HW Library: Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester o Baby Bookworms Long Beach, Rockport o Pajama Storytime Pavilion Beach, Ipswich Wenham Museum Plum Island, Newburyport VinKari Safari, Woburn Singing Beach, Manchester Wingaersheek Beach, Gloucester .
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