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With many kids officially out of school and summer break commencing, I thought I’d do a few more posts in our travel series. As a reminder, our travel posts are not sponsored, we just share fun trips we’ve done with our own families in hopes that that they’ll be helpful or interesting to all of you! We have a huge amount of readers in the Idaho-Utah regions and this one is especially awesome since it’s so close to both.
The City of Rocks, a National Reserve in our country’s park system, is a somewhat hidden gem (at least it was to me) located in Southern Idaho, not far from the Utah border.
My husband and I took a weekend trip there last fall and loved exploring. We can’t wait to take our boys back because it’s like a…
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