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Jun 09, 2008

We found the best Father’s Day events to help you show your dad a good time this June 15th.

By FLYP Staff

With our interactive page, find out the best places around the country to spend some quality time with dad this Father’s Day.

Catch of the Day
Where: Valley Center Community Hall
This Father’s Day, the nonprofit Ocean Institute is going fishing.
For $35 per person, you and your dad can join them on board the R/V Sea Explorer, a 70-foot “floating laboratory” equipped with video microscopes, viewing aquariums, touch tanks and all kinds of other high-tech gadgetry, for a catch-and-release trip whose proceeds will benefit the Institute’s expansive marine research and preservation efforts.
Everything you need for your time at sea is provided, so all you have to do is show up ready to have a good time.

Free Ride
Where: The Winters Building
For one afternoon, dad gets to forget he traded his convertible for a minivan and imagine himself behind the wheel of that ’69 Camaro he never got a chance to own.
At Austin’s Annual Father’s Day Antique Car Show, he’ll also be able to talk shop while he checks out more than 200 rare and classic models that span automotive history.
The event is free, so he even gets to save cash for all that gas he’s bound to burn racing away from the show.

Field of Fathers
Where: Great American Ball Park
Why simply take dad out to the ballgame when you can get him down on the field?
For $250, you and your old man will have access to the diamond, so you can take your game of catch to Major League-level on the field of the Great American Ball Park.
The package also includes tickets to the afternoon game against the Red Sox and a postgame field pass.
Best of all, it’s for a good cause—the proceeds go to the Reds Community Fund.

Be Bop A Do Dad
Where: City Park
If Dad prefers swingin’ tunes more than swingin’ bats and golf clubs, then take him out for a free jazz concert in City Park.
You and your pops will be able to chat, skat and bebop the night away at this special Father’s Day event. Denver’s own Hazel Miller Band, whose namesake has been called “a force of nature” by the Rocky Mountain News, will be keeping everybody on their feet and entertained.

Just Plane Fun
Where: Portland Children’s Museum
This year, take your Father’s Day celebrations to new heights at Father’s Field Day.
You and your dad will be able to enjoy the great outdoors while launching rockets, observing flight demos and using tools, wood and scrap materials to construct airplanes, bugs and other things that fly.
And if that’s not enough, giant darts, a paper airplane obstacle course, foot-stomp air rockets and kickball croquet will have your old man feeling like a kid again.

Urban Swing
Where: Chelsea Piers
Just because you didn’t get weekend tee time doesn’t mean you and your dad can’t work on your backswings.
Chelsea Piers offers 52 weather-protected tee boxes and a 200-yard fairway with lovely views that look out over the Hudson River.
If your dad is a serious duffer, sign him up for a lesson with one of the pros, which can focus on any aspect of his game—from putting and chipping to driving and sand shots.


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