The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide: Everything You Need to Enjoy Nature Locally
Grab this book, pack some snacks, and head outside with your family!
The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide is a family-friendly resource that will inspire you to take your kids outside and enjoy beautiful Linn County, Iowa. This book provides comprehensive research on all Linn County Parks, Iowa State Parks within Linn County, and Linn County trails, preserves, and natural areas (with bonus places to explore included).
The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide highlights stroller accessibility, restroom availability, unique features, and provides some parent-to-parent anecdotes about each place. With the journaling aspect, your family can track your visits with notes to remember before you return the next time. There are also seasonal bucket lists, recommendations based on interests, and several additional resources.
In a time when American children are spending an average of ten minutes outside a day, The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide is a valuable resource for reaping all the benefits nature has to offer!
The best part - local mom and The Purple Wagon customer, Briana Baranowski, is the author!
“Marion mom accepts challenge to spend more time outdoors; experience leads to new book ‘The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide’
Summer is a great time to take the kids outdoors and explore new places in Linn County. But the best laid plans can quickly go array if the park doesn’t have a bathroom. Or the stroller can’t handle the trails.
Writer and Marion resident Briana Baranowski has written and published a book to help. “The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide” (113 pages) is a guide to parks, trails, nature preserves in Linn County, written with parents in mind.
“I knew I wanted to connect moms to nature,” Baranowski, 36, explained in a recent interview. “Not only for the many benefits for children — there are so many research-backed benefits to that — but also for the moms. You can just feel your anxiety float away when you’re in a forest.”
The best part? Every location is close and accessible.
“I live in Marion and I don’t think I had to go further than 25 minutes to any place,” Baranowski said.”
Grab this book, pack some snacks, and head outside with your family!
The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide is a family-friendly resource that will inspire you to take your kids outside and enjoy beautiful Linn County, Iowa. This book provides comprehensive research on all Linn County Parks, Iowa State Parks within Linn County, and Linn County trails, preserves, and natural areas (with bonus places to explore included).
The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide highlights stroller accessibility, restroom availability, unique features, and provides some parent-to-parent anecdotes about each place. With the journaling aspect, your family can track your visits with notes to remember before you return the next time. There are also seasonal bucket lists, recommendations based on interests, and several additional resources.
In a time when American children are spending an average of ten minutes outside a day, The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide is a valuable resource for reaping all the benefits nature has to offer!
The best part - local mom and The Purple Wagon customer, Briana Baranowski, is the author!
“Marion mom accepts challenge to spend more time outdoors; experience leads to new book ‘The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide’
Summer is a great time to take the kids outdoors and explore new places in Linn County. But the best laid plans can quickly go array if the park doesn’t have a bathroom. Or the stroller can’t handle the trails.
Writer and Marion resident Briana Baranowski has written and published a book to help. “The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide” (113 pages) is a guide to parks, trails, nature preserves in Linn County, written with parents in mind.
“I knew I wanted to connect moms to nature,” Baranowski, 36, explained in a recent interview. “Not only for the many benefits for children — there are so many research-backed benefits to that — but also for the moms. You can just feel your anxiety float away when you’re in a forest.”
The best part? Every location is close and accessible.
“I live in Marion and I don’t think I had to go further than 25 minutes to any place,” Baranowski said.”
Grab this book, pack some snacks, and head outside with your family!
The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide is a family-friendly resource that will inspire you to take your kids outside and enjoy beautiful Linn County, Iowa. This book provides comprehensive research on all Linn County Parks, Iowa State Parks within Linn County, and Linn County trails, preserves, and natural areas (with bonus places to explore included).
The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide highlights stroller accessibility, restroom availability, unique features, and provides some parent-to-parent anecdotes about each place. With the journaling aspect, your family can track your visits with notes to remember before you return the next time. There are also seasonal bucket lists, recommendations based on interests, and several additional resources.
In a time when American children are spending an average of ten minutes outside a day, The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide is a valuable resource for reaping all the benefits nature has to offer!
The best part - local mom and The Purple Wagon customer, Briana Baranowski, is the author!
“Marion mom accepts challenge to spend more time outdoors; experience leads to new book ‘The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide’
Summer is a great time to take the kids outdoors and explore new places in Linn County. But the best laid plans can quickly go array if the park doesn’t have a bathroom. Or the stroller can’t handle the trails.
Writer and Marion resident Briana Baranowski has written and published a book to help. “The Linn County Family Outdoor Guide” (113 pages) is a guide to parks, trails, nature preserves in Linn County, written with parents in mind.
“I knew I wanted to connect moms to nature,” Baranowski, 36, explained in a recent interview. “Not only for the many benefits for children — there are so many research-backed benefits to that — but also for the moms. You can just feel your anxiety float away when you’re in a forest.”
The best part? Every location is close and accessible.
“I live in Marion and I don’t think I had to go further than 25 minutes to any place,” Baranowski said.”