8Mar/10
America’s most kid-friendly cities
We camp on a bluff overlooking a broad valley, giraffe and antelope wandering below, half a dozen rhino grazing in the hazy distance. After dinner around the campfire, we settle into our tents, but not before a herd of elephant rambles past, the ground literally shaking beneath their jumbo feet. Snug in our sleeping bags, we are roused three times in the middle of the night by lions roaring somewhere out in the dark.
It’s only the next morning when we pack our bags and trek back to the parking lot that reality sets in again. This isn’t Africa—it’s the Wild Animal Park in San Diego.
A popular sleepover program called “Roar & Snore” that helps make the southern California city one of the best places in America for a family vacation.