CELEBRATE FAMILY FUN MONTH IN BUCKS COUNTY

August is Family Fun Month and Bucks County has tons of activities that guarantee a great time for the whole family, year-round! Check out any of these attractions for hours of nonstop fun and make some new memories with your loved ones.

Sesame Place®, the nation's only theme park based entirely on the beloved children's show Sesame

Street®, is right here in Bucks County! Join the party and celebrate the amusement park's 35th birthday all-season-long with exhilarating rides, cool water slides and all-new toe-tapping shows starring everyone's favorite furry friends. The fun never stops at Sesame where everyone can be a kid again! 

Mini golf is the perfect family-friendly activity and the course at Golf Adventure is one of the area's best! With 18 holes, four ponds and two streams as well as a 15-foot waterfall, the scenic course is the

ideal setting for a family outing. After you make your way through the 18 holes, snack on soft-serve ice cream, milkshakes, soft drinks, pizza, hot dogs and more at the course-side food court.

Peddler's Village is home to Giggleberry Fair, a spectacular indoor play center that's fun for kids and adults alike! Its centerpiece is Giggleberry Mountain, the area's largest indoor obstacle course at three-stories tall. Make sure to check out the game room, equipped with more than 40 of the newest games on the market and then take a ride on the vintage 1922 Grand Carousel. If you've worked up an appetite, The Painted Pony awaits with delicious fresh pizza, burgers, hot dogs, chicken tenders and many more kid-friendly foods and snacks.

When it's hot, there's no better way to spend time outdoors with your family than at Bucks County River Country. Located in the beautiful village of Point Pleasant, they offer kayaks, canoes, river rafts and the popular river tube available to take for two- to four-hour trips along the scenic Delaware River. Come see the "World's River Tubing Capital" for an adventure the whole family will love!

Grab your family and a hammer and head to Ringing Rocks Park, an eight-acre boulder field and

geologic wonder. When struck with a hammer, the rocks give off a loud, high-pitched ringing noise so you can make your own music all day long. After you and your family take turns taking your swings, hit the trail to explore the rest of the park, home to Bucks County's tallest waterfall. 

All aboard the historic New Hope & Ivyland Railroad! Travel into a scene from the past as this 1925 steam locomotive pulls passengers from New Hope to Lahaska on a 45-minute ride through the beautiful Bucks County countryside. Journey back in time, learning what rail travel was like for your ancestors as you make new memories of your own! 

Family fun is always in season at Shady Brook Farm! One of the last working farms in historic Bucks County, Shady Brook offers tons of exciting festivals year-round as well as "Pick-Your-Own" Days where guests can head out into the fields to pick fresh fruits and vegetables. While you're there, make sure to get a scoop from Uncle Dave's Homemade Ice Cream. Since setting up shop at the farm in 2007, Uncle Dave's has been serving up super premium, hand-dipped ice cream to hungry customers of all ages!

Get Your Home Ready For Spring

It’s here! After all the snow, cold weather, snow, potholes, snow, ice storms – and snow. We have finally entered springtime! Congratulations Bucks County residents! We have survived!

Now that it’s getting warmer and warmer each day, it’s the perfect time to get our homes and yards ready for the spring and summer months. Of course, all of us know that it means bugs are on their way allergies will be on the rise. Our lawns will soon need to be cut.

To make your transition easier, here are some ways you can enjoy the warmer weather without having to spend your time indoors (we all had enough of that during the winter).

While the neighborhood kids are running around outside, enjoy the sounds of their laughter while cleaning out the flower beds removing any rotted plants and debris. Be sure to check your garden hoses for cracks and wear. Cut back overgrown shrubs and trees. Clean your grill for those well-deserved cookouts Walk around the perimeter of your home and search for ants or other insects that may have already started to make their way indoors. If any bugs have gotten inside already, be sure to spray or call a local exterminator before the infestation gets worse.

If you haven’t spent enough time inside your home yet, this is a great time of the year to renovate a room or two with a fresh color of paint.  You could dust ceiling fans and baseboards, wash windows, and shampoo your carpets. For fresh air it is nice to open the windows for a little while. It is a wonderful change after being snowed in!

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