This award-winning website, FamilyDaysOut.com, is a great resource for family travel planning. In existence for 16 or so years, the fun website is chockfull of ideas for places to go & places to stay for families.
From the homepage map click on the region or state and then select more options from there depending on the ages & interests of your family. Another way to get info is to enter a town or zipcode in the search box.
For example, here’s the entry for Dog Bark Park. It might be interesting to see what comes up when entering the zip for your town. There just might be an activity or nearby place that would be perfect for your family’s next outing.