SoWal Favorites - What’s the most family-friendly activity in SoWal?

[kurt]

Please tell us What’s the most family-friendly activity in SoWal? - your suggestion may be published in a visitor guide from Beaches Of South Walton TDC. Thanks for your help!

[Beach Bimmer]

Fired Up Paint-Your-Own Pottery in Seaside!

[SWGB]

After that, I'd have to say, the beach.

[scooterbug44]

Grayton Beach outfall!

[tistheseason]

My family's favorite activity is riding bikes. When we arrive, my kids run to the back of our house to check on the bikes. We can ride around for hours just looking at all the different houses. Usually though we are riding them to some of the other family friendly activities. . .. the beach, the pool, the Seacrest fountains, the Alys Beach Mountain, the butterfly park in Rosemary, the train in Gigi's!

[Allifunn]

The beach. Fired Up, Sleeping Beauty at Seaside, Stinky Cheese Man at Water Color, the fountian at Seacrest, the play ground at Alys, the hot dog cart at Rosemary, a picnic at Grayton Beach state park, kayaking (for older kids), biking (carefully) along 30-A, the beach (again )

[InletBchDweller]

Any of the free concerts that are offered in the area. Kids love them as they can dance and play and adults like them b/c they are free and depending on the age of the kids the adults can relax!

[Hop]

it's amazing how much mileage you can get out of fonville hill @ aly's for smaller children..

[mikecatadjuster]

For young kids, the love playing in the bowl shaped amphitheater in Seaside. They love to roll down the hill, run, throw ball ro frisbee, play tag. It's just a good environment and after you get all hot and sweaty you can get a snowball at FrostBites or walk over and take a swim at the beach.

Bike riding around Western Lake on the gravel trails of Watercolor through undulating hills is nice too. In the summer the bridge crossing the lake near where they rent out the boats there in Watercolor can offer a mighty pretty sunset.

Eastern and Western dune lakes where they buttress up against the gulf is a favorite place for younger kids who might be intimidtaed by the waves and/or prefer water with less salty content.

Looking for shells on the beach. Well, one of these might be 'the most'. But here in the Coast with the Most, it's too much to pick just one.

[ItzKatzTime]

Fired Up Paint-Your-Own Pottery in Seaside!

So so true Beach Bimmer. One of my favorite pictures of Doug, Kalie and myself was taken in Fired Up after we all finished our creations. It seems like all your worries just fly out the door when you are creating and spending time together! (Of course Kalie always brought 3 or 4 girls with her...so we had a big family!) Reminds me it's time to get in there and create something fun again!!!

Gulf Place......I can never get enough of that place!!! Concerts, shopping, eats, wonderful place to walk the dog. Art! Art! and more Art! All in a very casual atmosphere!

Eden....lots of room for kids to run, then spread out on a blanket for a picnic and a nap!

There is so much here in SoWal!!!!

[Jim Tucker]

I would say it's building sandcastles on the beach with the kids.

[Smiling JOe]

I've seen some of those families from the mid-west enjoying "corn-holing" (their word, not mine) on the beach.

[westsidetrash]

Corn-holing?

We just like the beach...

[Smiling JOe]

stop thinking dirty! not that kind of corn-holing. You set up a board with a small hole in it and throw bean bags, stuffed with corn, not beans, into the hole from about 20 ft away.

[buster]

Renting bikes at Big Daddy's in Blue Mountain Beach and riding down hill through Grayton Beach to WaterColor and Seaside. If you don't want to ride back because you've eaten too much for lunch, they'll come pick you up.

[Cork On the Ocean]

stop thinking dirty! not that kind of corn-holing. You set up a board with a small hole in it and throw bean bags, stuffed with corn, not beans, into the hole from about 20 ft away.

Had to chuckle at that one

OK my favorite place is whisking across Europe on a train. As soon as I get on it, it's like I've left the world behind.

[BeachbumAggie]

#1 hanging at the beach and playing in the water
#2 walking around Seaside
#3 biking around
#4 pool frisbee

[nodilberthere]

I love whisking across Europe on trains, too -- with an Underwood Deviled Chicken spread sandwich and a Dr. Pepper.

[bookworm]

Definitely the beach.

[JUL]

stop thinking dirty! not that kind of corn-holing. You set up a board with a small hole in it and throw bean bags, stuffed with corn, not beans, into the hole from about 20 ft away.

I got some peculiar looks when I brought up corn hole in a wine bar a few years back...I'm from Indiana ...where the game is very popular and even dogs are taught to play...I had no clue the words had other meanings

[beachgrl]

The Christmas Parade at Seagrove.....cannot wait for it again this year.....

[Paula]

For free things for families to do:

The free concerts and movies in the summer, though we rarely go because we get too comfortable and lazy sitting on the porch, hanging around the pool, and going to the beach. Reading at the beach very early in the morning when it's quiet. Watching the sunset every evening.

The fountain at Villages of South Walton is great when it dances to music during summer evenings, though it wasn't working last August when we were there. Kids love to run through it.

Bucket of Beignets at Flip Flops. Very inexpensive breakfast though I eat 3/4s of the beignets, leaving very little for the kids.

Getting shrimp steamed and seasoned at Goatfeathers.

Biking along 30A.

[Bobby J]

Swaisie night at Pizza by the Sea! The vibe is just right!