Our Budget Escape tips are here to help you, when money is tight. We firmly believe that money should never prevent you from living your life to the fullest. Here are the things that this category contains:
Free Places to Go-Amazing places to get away for a no cost escapade, and have a big adventure with a little wallet, especially for a day or a weekend.
Free Things to Do- Awesome activities that can done on no cost.
Budgetizing your Trip– Cost cutting tips and resources for other travel adventures, as well as great bargains we find along the way.
Budget Management- Saving money all the time, so you have more for when you want to get away.
Budget Travel Links- Links to some of our favorite other bloggers, who happen to be real experts on low cost travel, and can cite tip after tip, source after source.
This post was updated on May 26th, 2025. Raising children in the Midwest US, spending a weekend in St. Louis was always a great low-cost getaway, that entertained the whole family. There are just so many things to do in St. Louis, that our 3 days in St. Louis were always jam-packed. We always found […]
This post was updated on June 27th, 2024. What is there to do if you are feeling the need to get away, but you are not quite ready to go away? Are you feeling the call of nature? Feeling nostalgic for a simpler time? It might be the perfect time for a farm stay! Whether
This post was updated on May 9th, 2024. Dreaming of Hawaii but worried about the cost? Don’t let budget constraints stop you from experiencing the beauty of Oahu! If Hawaii is your ultimate dream vacation, you deserve to go. We put it off for years, afraid of the cost. Then we finally went to Oahu.
This post was updated on May 16th, 2022. Hawaii has been identified as the happiest state in the US and the most mentioned destination for those with bucket lists of places to visit. If you’ve always wanted to go, but think you can’t afford Hawaii, let it go! I have created this Hawaii Big Island
This post was updated on July 24th, 2024. Nashville is home for me and I love telling people how amazing it is, but it’s no secret that it can be a little bit pricey to live in and to visit. Hotel prices are surprisingly high, it’s not an easily walkable city and there isn’t much
This post was updated on May 25th, 2022. Home to some of the tallest trees on earth, Redwoods National and State Parks are a string of protected forests, beaches and grasslands hugging the Northern California coastline. The stars of the show of course, are the giant Coast Redwood trees that are the tallest trees
This post was updated on July 6th, 2021. When we wrote our St. Louis weekend guide, we pointed out that St. Louis has more free things to do than any city in the US outside of the capital city. We still firmly stand behind that statement, and figured it was about time we gave our readers a
This post was updated on April 29th, 2024. Did We Say See Niagara Falls Free?!? Yes, we said that you can see Niagara Falls Free. No, there is no mistake there. And, we are about to tell all the incredible free places to see Niagara Falls. You may think that can’t be true It is
This post was updated on September 8th, 2018. Missouri Adventure?? Perhaps that is the last thing you think of when you consider Missouri, in the center of the US. But Elephant Rock State Park is the home of one of those odd natural wonders that hardly anyone knows about. It is also one of
If you are looking for a great weekend getaway or weeklong vacation. Look no further. Nebraska has a beautiful spot for all you needs – Eugene T. Mahoney State Park. Of course, Nebraska has many beautiful state and local parks for camping, hiking and enjoying the great outdoors. All you need to do is check
This post was updated on October 23rd, 2017. Need some time away? Down in Southern Illinois, in Makanda, Illinois, near Carbondale, there rests an incredible State Park with an astounding 4,000 acres. Lying within the Shawnee National Forest is Giant City State Park. This park is full of many different wild flowers and over 72 varieties of trees, which
This post was updated on January 17th, 2019. The Outdoor Playground Called UTAH by Janiel of Culture Trekking II was born in Layton Utah, I grew up all over Davis and Utah County moving every few years with my parents. I didn’t like the culture, I felt trapped in a tiny bubble of ‘happiness’
This post was updated on December 16th, 2018. We have lived in Florida for just a couple of years, but we have been to this park several times. When we have guests, we love visiting Silver Springs State Park because it is beautiful, described as “old Florida.” We also go because we are assured
This post was updated on September 19th, 2017. What’s a Geocache?? A geocache, is what a geocacher finds, when he plays geocaching. What?? Okay, okay. Geocaching is a game and that can be dream come true for young families struggling to make ends meet, but who still need adventure. Geocaching is fun, exciting, intriguing,
This post was updated on July 27th, 2018. Most of us have sat in front of the TV or at the movie theater watching a great adventure, when the lead actors run off into the woods on a wild chase that ends up being several days of hiking around. Miraculously, they are in the
This post was updated on September 30th, 2018. Cathedral Caverns are one of those wonders of nature that is hard to describe. Pictures don’t do it justice. The entrance is huge, 126 feet wide and 25 feet high. One of the first things you will see is a sharks tooth embedded in the ceiling.
This post was updated on October 9th, 2018. Being born and raised in The Land of Lincoln, you would think I would have visited New Salem Village many times. I have been fortunate to take school field trips to the location where Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, is buried. As an adult, I
This post was updated on August 21st, 2024. Perhaps not everybody knows, but Florida is the flattest state in the United States. One might automatically assume that would rule out a lot of natural wonders, and in particular water falls. After all, how can there be water falls when there is no up to fall
This post was updated on August 17th, 2018. Whenever we are craving some adventure, we hop into the car and head to Matthiessen State Park. Sometimes the whole family goes, and sometimes we go when Mom is at work, and we guys are feeling the need to get out of the house, and do
This post was updated on October 9th, 2018. The National Parks of the United States are well known around the globe, but what is not as commonly known is that the country also boasts an amazing network of US State Parks. An astonishing number of state parks are filled with small natural wonders, are
