My family of 5 traveled to Vermont every summer for 8 years. The low-cost trip brought us closer together.

The author said her three children ended up growing up in Vermont on their low-key, budget-friendly family vacations to the same location. Courtesy of Jaclyn Greenberg. Traveling with three small kids felt a bit daunting, so we took an easy-to-manage trip to Vermont. My family enjoyed it so much, we returned to the same spot every summer for 8 years. Those low-cost rips made it easy for us to get away, and gave us memories to last a lifetime. When my kids were 5, 3, and 18 months old, we to...