Bluegreen Colorful Places

Bluegreen family vacation destinations extend throughout the United States. Certain destinations just happen to offer a closer proximity to some of the most entertaining family fun you could imagine, especially for children. In fact, some of the best children’s museums in the country make their home in vacation destinations near Bluegreen resorts.

Madison Children’s Museum
Some children’s museums go above and beyond—right to a four-season rooftop garden. This outdoor learning center is perfect for studying the science of weather, wonders of the sky, and the miracle of growing food, with homing pigeons and chicken coops for good measure. Madison Children’s Museum offers fun and unusual activities for kids in a century-old building across the street from Wisconsin’s Capitol, not far from Bluegreen’s Christmas Mountain Village in Wisconsin Dells.

Inside Possible-opolis, visitors can celebrate invention and creativity. This mock city is made up of 90 percent recycled, reclaimed, salvaged and repurposed materials. For your kids, it’s home to 100 percent fun. Watch as they scamper up the Hodgepodge Mahal climbing wall and hoist a plaster cow on pulleys. Interested in giving your kids a demonstration on the amount of energy generated through physical activity? Have them go for a run on the Gerbil Wheeel.

For young Bluegreen visitors, Wildernest is a global village of activity centers in small huts, plus a bridge, tree house, water dome, and cottage. Be sure to visit the Shadow Room, where light flashes capture the shadows of kids and adults mid-jump or various fun poses.

Dinosaur Walk Museum
There are two of these in popular tourist areas: one near Bluegreen’s Laurel Crest resort in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and another near The Falls Village in Branson, Missouri. Kids are excited by the size of these models of prehistoric creatures, and especially by the sharp teeth. Adults will appreciate the process of producing and transporting the realistic sculptures, which were made in Utah.

Although the 50 or so animals vary in ferociousness from a two-story Tyrannosaurus Rex to a twelve-inch Microraptor, be forewarned that nightmare-prone young children may be too terrified to appreciate the thrill their older siblings get from killer shark jaws or a giant sea lizard.

The museums include movie theaters for HD educational films and activities so children can feel like they are the ones hunting the dinosaurs, rather than vice-versa.

Miami Children’s Museum
Located on an island in a playful building with a 65-foot luminous cone that can be seen from the city of Miami across the bay, the Miami Children's Museum is a great place to visit during a Bluegreen vacation to the city. Displays at Miami Children’s Museum are bilingual. Beyond the walk-through bank where kids design their own money, the health and body exhibit, supermarket and fire station, this children’s museum takes advantage of its surroundings.

The Castle of Dreams is a two-story sandcastle featuring sands from around the world and Ocean Odyssey features marine life in a 900-gallon tank. An Everglades exhibit shows where alligators and ospreys live. Closer to home, Meet Miami stimulates children to imagine living in different neighborhoods or time periods, promoting understanding of different cultures and an awareness of the city’s history and legacy. Best of all, the museum is only minutes from Bluegreen’s popular South Beach resort, Solara Surfside.

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