[Northendzone]

We are a family of 4 - will be 12, dughter will be 9 at vacation time. We will go hiking and biking as a family. Hard to golf yet as a family because age of dughter.......we are looking for some vacation ideas for august 2014.

we would like the vacation to be somewhat active (i.e. biking/hiking), near a beach/water, warm temps (last year we went to Kelowna). It would be nice to drive there as well but we are open to flying if need be.

Vacation would be limited to North America

Wife and I have also considered the following spots:

* Mexico - this would be a lazy vacation of lying around mostly, and we are not sure if we want to go there in August
* Chicago - never been, but I wonder if we'd spend a lot of time inside at museums and stuff and the wife and I wonder if it would be more enjoyable for us to go w/o kids
* San Francisco - have read it can be expensive there, also kids don't like seafood very much
* Florida - Disney and Other stops.....this would likely be a very hectic vacation where we are on the go a lot.........
* Penticton - meets much of our criteria, except I am having trouble finiding enough info about biking - other than the Kettle Valley RR (which as I recall is not that smooth in that area)

I'd like to go somewhere in Colorado mostly for the biking (but I'd have to find trails we could ride on as a family as well), but that seems like it is a few more hours in the vehicle than the wife wants to spend.

We have been to Seattle, whitefish, Invermere and Portland was on the radar, until I found out most of the good biking is 1 or more hours away.