How to Pack for a Family Trip Without Kids

With a child, you will never see the trail like you do with a child because they want to pick up everything. So we always carry a little nature bag so that our kids can pick up rocks and sticks and bugs and anything they want and take them back. We also bring bug catchers because they like to catch bugs on trail and look at them with a magnifying glass. But I would say probably the two best things you can ever have in your pack with kids is an audiobook. And then also pack more snacks than you could ever think you could eat because they will inevitably eat every single snack.