If you want to visit Hawaii but avoid being Spam-canned in with the typical tourist trade, consider the more low-key “Green Island” of Kauai. While you will still encounter a share of more informed tourists, it is a much less developed place with no building taller than your average coconut tree and no town with more than 10,000 residents.
What’s more family-friendly than a perfect blend of an iconic fall foliage trip and the contemporary cool of art exhibitions? That’s what you’ll discover here in western Massachusetts’ rural region known as The Berkshires. Once known for little more than its retirees, it actually has a long (perhaps hidden) history of being a hot summer getaway for assorted artistic types. Indeed, young blood from both Boston and New York has revitalized its cultural community.