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Top Family Adventure-Tour Outfitters
- GORP Travel, Inc. (877-440-4677; http://gorptravel.gorp.com): Offers family-focused lodge- and ranch-based vacations, rafting excursions, and other adventures. As with all outfitters, fees vary based on the trip.
- Backroads (800-462-2848; www.backroads.com): offers family trips to destinations in North America, Latin America, and Europe. Choose from walking, biking, and multisport adventures. Sample adventure: A six-day camping trip in Washington's Puget Sound is $948 per adult. Kids' discounts range from 75 percent off for tykes 2 and under to 10 percent off for kids 11 to 16.
- Kids Go Too Travel (800-638-3215; www.kidsgotootravel.com): Customizes adventures in Colorado and Wyoming with activities ranging from covered-wagon trips and rafting to horseback riding, gold-mine visits, and dinosaur-fossil digs.
- The World Outside (800-488-8483; www.theworldoutside.com): Families are welcome on any trip, but the company also offers special family multisport adventures in the Grand Tetons/Yellowstone National Park, the Colorado Rocky Mountains, and Colorado's Four Corners region.
- Thomson Family Adventures (800-262-6255; www.familyadventures.com): Trips to Africa, Nepal, Turkey, Costa Rica, Australia, Egypt, the Galápagos Islands, and Ecuador will appeal to families with a taste for the exotic. Thomson's 13-day "Affordable Tanzania Safari" offers tremendous value for the money. Cost: $2,990 per adult, including round-trip airfare from the East Coast, with a $500 discount for kids 11 and under.
- Wilderness Inquiry (800-728-0719; www.wildernessinquiry.org): Offers very affordable family canoeing, hiking, swimming, and fishing trips in the summer; cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and dogsledding in the winter.
Alison Ashton is a San Diego-based freelance writer and the coauthor of Romantic Days and Nights in San Diego (Globe Pequot Press).
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