Ready to dive into your Delaware Bucket List? Family Fun Day is the free place to begin.

Hold off on these weekend plans: Spotlight Delaware has your entire household lined, regardless of the place you name house in Delaware.

New experiences are awaiting throughout the state this Saturday, Sept. 27 on the first-ever Spotlight Delaware Family Fun Day, a lineup of kid-pleasing, family-focused actions at 21 of the state’s high customer sights. 

Best of all, admission charges at every attraction have been waived for the day with the assist of Spotlight Delaware’s beneficiant companions, together with the Delaware Electric Cooperative, Out & About journal, and the state’s tourism workplaces. 

All it’s good to do is register on-line, decide a couple of close by sights, and make some Delaware discoveries as you’re having fall enjoyable.

“We created Family Fun Day as a way to celebrate Delaware’s families, while also giving those families a chance to get to know their home state a little better,” stated David Stradley, Spotlight Delaware’s director of group engagement. “Spotlight Delaware’s core mission is serving our communities, so it made sense to find new ways to bring those communities together.”

Throughout the yr, Spotlight Delaware hosts issue-oriented boards and group listening periods that assist align information protection with residents’ considerations. Saturday’s occasion marks the nonprofit information website’s first foray into leisure-focused occasions, an effort that may proceed into 2026.

“It’s a wonderful way to explore Delaware destinations you always wanted to visit, but haven’t had the chance to see,” stated Allison Taylor Levine, Spotlight’s writer and CEO. “It’s definitely a day for checking off some of those Delaware Bucket List items.”

The epic collaboration spans the whole state, with no less than 5 collaborating sights in every county. Upstate households can head off to such gems because the Delaware Art Museum, the Copeland Maritime Center, and the New Castle Court House Museum. In Central Delaware, take a look at the Air Mobility Command Museum, or head for downtown Dover, the place it’s simple to walk between sights just like the Biggs Museum of American Art, and First State Heritage Park.

Sussex County’s deep heritage and pure magnificence are in focus on the Nanticoke Indian Museum, DuPont Nature Center, and the sprawling Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge –  identified worldwide for its wildlife, however nonetheless considerably mysterious to various Delawareans.

“As a lifelong Delawarean, I’m embarrassed I hadn’t visited some of these places before,” stated advertising and marketing and occasions supervisor Elsa Kegelman, Delaware’s newest fan of the DuPont Nature Center. “I was totally charmed by what our state has to offer, just a little ways off Route 13.”

To get began, members merely register on the Family Fun Day web page, then head to the sights of their selection – entrance is free all over the place, and the occasion web site lists particular family-oriented actions which have been added at many places.

While members benefit from the day, they’ll additionally get an opportunity at profitable a prize within the Spotlight Delaware Family Fun Day Photo Contest. To enter:

• Follow Spotlight Delaware on Facebook or Instagram
• Post an image of your adventures, tagging @spotlightdelaware.

Prizes embrace a Nintendo Switch 2, or a Brandywine Treasure Trail Passport. Winners introduced Friday, Oct. 3.

Spotlight Delaware Family Fun Day was made potential by assist from the Delaware Electric Cooperative, a member-owned electrical distribution firm serving 84,000 in Kent and Sussex Counties; and Out & About magazine, which has saved readers knowledgeable about leisure choices in Greater Wilmington since 1988. Support additionally was offered by tourism workplaces statewide: Delaware Tourism Office, Greater Wilmington Convention and Visitors Bureau, Visit Central Delaware, and Southern Delaware Tourism.

Read extra from Spotlight Delaware