50 Outdoor Date Ideas to Keep the Adventure Going Strong

By bringthekids
11 February, 2013
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I love my kids, I really do, but I also love my time away from them. Time to just be me. Time to think, be still, and have no one yelling my name or smearing my pants with dirty fingers. Time for adventure. Yes, we’re huge advocates of taking kids with you on adventures, but every now and then leave them behind! What better way to do that than with your spouse! Mine is my favorite adventure partner, and something about being outside together (and alone) does wonders for our relationship and our individual sanity. So, if you’re like us and have a hard time thinking of a fun outside date on the spur of the moment, here are 50 ideas to get you started!

ANYTIME

Go for a hike
Have a picnic
Fly a kite
Go stargazing (details here)
Walk through a park holding hands
Make marshmallow guns and have a fight
Go on a photo scavenger hunt
Have a fire
Go for a bike ride
Feed birds at the park
Go for a full moon hike (details here)
Go geocaching
Watch the sunrise and have a picnic breakfast
Slackline
Have a nerf gun fight
Play tag (or better yet, tackle football)
Cloud-watch
Visit a nature center
Go to an outdoor concert
Go bird watching
Climb a mountain and dance, dance, dance on top
Go on a scavenger hunt
Go trail running together
Camping
Ride in a hot-air balloon
Watch a movie outside and cuddle under a blanket
Go ice blocking
Soak in a hot spring
Sit on the grass and talk
Cook over a fire (smores, foil dinners, dutch oven, etc)

IN WINTER

Go tubing down a hill
Go skiing
Go snowshoeing
Go sledding
Go to an overlook and drink cocoa
Have a snowball fight
Build a snowcave
Shovel your neighbors driveways together
Build snowmen that look like each other
Ice skating

IN SUMMER

Pick berries
Go to the beach
Have a rock skipping competition
Go kayaking/canoeing/rafting
Find a new swimming hole
Plant flowers for a neighbor together
Have a water balloon fight
Go rock climbing
Build mini boats out of anything you can find and race them down a creek
Go fishing

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