Summer Day Trips
Waning Summer Signals Last Hurrah, It's Time to Hit the Road
Free, Geo-location-based Service Helps People Find Fun Things to Do Nearby
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, August 17, 2010 – A Day’s Outing, a free, online travel search tool for helping users find nearby day trips, vacation side trips and weekend getaways, offers local events for late summer trips. It’s easy for families, couples and friends to plan a perfect end of summer trip without the expense of an overnight hotel stay. With summer winding down and hundreds of thousands of outings to explore all across the country, A Day’s Outing helps people plan the perfect day trip that’s either right around the corner or a few hours away. Launched last year in the mid-Atlantic, A Day’s Outing recently expanded its service nationwide and introduced a mobile version of its service for iPhone users.
A long summer vacation may not be possible for everyone this year, but a great day or weekend road trip certainly can be. Often many activities, historical points of interest, museums, gardens, and other hidden treasures are located right your own backyard. A Day’s Outing helps people plan a short-distance trip by revealing nearby events, destinations and great day trip activities.
Day Trips That Appeal to Everyone
A Day’s Outing includes day trips close to home that everyone can enjoy. Examples of outings, along with the site’s categories that can be searched, include:
Antiques & Auctions: Amherst Quilt, Craft & Amish Furniture Auction, Amherst, WI
Fairs, Events & Festivals: Pocono Garlic Festival, Shawnee on Delaware, PA
Family & Children: Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
Farms, Food & Wine: Dallas Farmers Market, Dallas, TX
History & Heritage: "Meet Mr. Lincoln," The National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Museums & Art: San Diego Automotive Museum, San Diego, CA
Nature & Outdoors: Werner Wildlife Museum, Casper, WY
Parks & Gardens: Leschi Park, Seattle, WA
Theater & Stage: Mind Over Matter, and other Psychic Manifestations, Washington, D.C.
Unique Sports & Hobbies: Ohio Bird Sanctuary, Mansfield, OH
With any search on A Day’s Outing, the focus is on simplicity and speed. There is just one page where users choose their preferences, one page listing personalized search results with events, day trips and destinations to choose from, and the last page provides details about the specific outing chosen. The simplicity eliminates getting overwhelmed within the site and the speed eliminates the hassles of having to spend an inordinate amount of time researching individual activities.
“With A Day’s Outing, anyone can quickly and easily plan a nearby day trip or a weekend road trip. By simply entering where they are starting from and what they’d like to do, we can provide a list of events and destinations tailored to their preferences,” commented Elizabeth Muse, co-founder and CEO of A Day’s Outing. “We designed A Day’s Outing to be a valuable, timesaving service that helps users find the best local events so they can plan fun outings with their friends or family.”
About A Day’s Outing
Based in Charlottesville, VA, A Day’s Outing is an online search tool for short-distance day trips and weekend outings. A Day’s Outing is the first online search tool aimed at women to help them quickly find local outings for themselves or their families. Whether accessed from a desktop computer or A Day’s Outing’s iPhone App, users benefit from the service’s simplicity, highly personalized outings and events, and timesaving functionality. For more information about A Day’s Outing, please visit www.adaysouting.com.
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