Family skiing at Copper Mountain Resort. Skiing is the best possible family vacation because it is an experience that is shared © 2011 Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

Copper Mountain in the Colorado Rockies is not your typical family mountain destination resort. It is hip, rad, happening... Cool.

Even grandpa and grandma…

There is no better place to experience "Real Florida" than the Myakka River State Park, where you are virtually guaranteed to see alligators close up. © 2011 Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

You don't have to travel far on Route 72 from the busy north-south roads near Florida's Gulf Coast before you are in a…

At the Circus Museum, see the most incredible miniature circus, carved over 50 years by Howard Tibbals. Among the tens of thousands of individually carved pieces are identifiable characters.

Photo: © 2011 Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com…

Photo: © 2011 Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com

You step through an archway and all you see are neat, lush gardens with lounge chairs set in a row, and beach and the waters of the Gulf of Mexico beyond, and your immediate reaction is "aaaahhh."

it is just the place you might…