Yala National Park
Sri Lanka
Yala is Sri Lanka's most visited national park and the place with the best odds of seeing a wild leopard anywhere…
314 tickets & tours
Worldwide
Best national parks for families in the world
A good family park has short walks with a clear reward, wildlife that is easy to see, no extreme altitude, heat or malaria risk, and somewhere to eat and sleep nearby. We mark parks as family-friendly on those grounds when writing each page, and rank them here by the number of tours and tickets on sale, a fair measure of how well set up a park is for ordinary visitors.
Arusha National Park
Tanzania
Arusha National Park is the small park on the doorstep of the safari capital of northern Tanzania, twenty-five…
293 tickets & tours
Serengeti National Park
Tanzania
The Serengeti is the most famous safari park in the world, and the tours sold for it are almost all multi-day trips…
217 tickets & tours
Amboseli National Park
Kenya
Amboseli is the park for elephants against the backdrop of Kilimanjaro, and it is close enough to Nairobi, about four…
215 tickets & tours
Cinque Terre National Park
Liguria, Italy
Cinque Terre National Park protects the five fishing villages and terraced cliffs of the Ligurian coast between Levanto…
211 tickets & tours
Tarangire National Park
Tanzania
Tarangire is the elephant park of northern Tanzania and, at two hours by paved road from Arusha, the easiest of the…
209 tickets & tours
Sintra-Cascais Natural Park
Portugal
Sintra-Cascais Natural Park is the green wedge of hills and Atlantic coast on Lisbon's doorstep, and it contains…
201 tickets & tours
Mikumi National Park
Tanzania
Mikumi is the safari park for people based on the coast: four to five hours by road west of Dar es Salaam, and…
190 tickets & tours
Grand Canyon National Park
Arizona, United States
The Grand Canyon, in northern Arizona, is the most famous natural sight in the United States, and the first thing a…
180 tickets & tours
Thingvellir National Park
Iceland
Thingvellir lies forty-five kilometres, about three quarters of an hour by a good road, north-east of Reykjavik, and it…
176 tickets & tours
Kruger National Park
Mpumalanga, South Africa
Kruger is the one great African park you can visit on your own terms: a public road network, entrance fees paid at the…
174 tickets & tours
Phu Quoc National Park
Vietnam
Phu Quoc National Park covers the forested northern two-thirds of Phu Quoc, Vietnam's largest island, and it is…
166 tickets & tours
Half-day jeep safaris in Sri Lanka, boat trips and boardwalks in Costa Rica, the train between the villages of Cinque Terre, the Grand Canyon's rim shuttle and the geysers of Yellowstone all work with children. Parks that involve gorilla permits, which have a minimum age of fifteen, multi-day treks or long off-road transfers are left out.