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Things To Do In Blythe With Children

Now that my children are older and I am not quiet so broke I’ve been trying to travel to Blythe, California, to see my grandma about twice a year.  The drive is about 4-5 hours and when we get there it is often a ‘there is nothing to do in Blythe’ situation.  Well, the more and more we go, the more we discover.

On the way we stopped at the Palm Springs Air Museum and ate in the cafe and explored the gift shop.

There was a lot to see outside the museum, including statues and airplanes.  Inside the gift shop they had a really cool American flag made out of corks.  We also saw some of the museum from the cafe.  The mural (left pic) was on the way back to the freeway.

The stretch from los Angeles to Blythe is about 4 hours with lots of empty lands.  A nice place to pause is the Dinosaurs in Cabazon are neat to look at and they have a museum.

This is always a mystery to me.  I’ve seen these ‘beheaded palm trees’ for years and I go back and forth.  I’m not sure why someone cut the tops and if they wanted to kill the trees, why they didn’t remove the whole tree.  Definitely a good discussion of topic of ‘random sites.’

The hotels are vast and plentiful. For me price is very important but I also don’t want to worry about a run-down crumby hotel. With two teens I also want WiFi.  Last year the hotel we stayed at promised WiFi in our room but when we arrived they said it was only available in the lobby and they were still working on getting it in the rooms.

This time we stayed at the Regency on Hobson (the main street where almost everything is).  We were less than 2 miles from my grandma.  next door to Sizzler’s (one of her favorite places to eat) and there was even Courtesy Coffee Shop across the street.  We walked there on Saturday night for dinner.

This palm tree is inside of Courtesy Coffee Shop.  The building corner was build around it and the tree goes straight through it and outside.

About the hotel. We had WiFi in our room but it wasn’t super strong.  If all three of us were online it was slow. I’m sure other people in the hotel were using it at the same time as well.  According to reviews it was newly remodeled. That was an understatement.  The buildings were beautiful, everything very clean and tidy.  The room looked like it had brand new carpet, bedding and drapes were nice, bathroom nicely decorated, large flat screen tv with cable channels, mini-fridge, etc.  Plus they had a continental breakfast with a waffle maker, cereal, yogurt, danishes, fresh fruit, OJ and milk and toast with butter or jam.  I know prices of hotels change but I booked the room with travelocity and the rates were $50.50 a night.  About 1/2 the price we have previously paid. We didn’t use it but they also have a pool and spa.

We stopped by a thrift shop that was to the right of Kmart and found some nice treasures.  Kaela got a purse and I got a baking dish.

We went to Third Hand Bookstore.  127 W. Hobsonway.  It is nondescript on the outside and easy to drive past but once inside it was a treasure trove.  Like a small library.  They had books in all genres plus comic books, book sets and lots of cookbooks.  They were also adding to the store and building more shelves in the back.  This place is packed floor to ceiling with books and everything was well organized in sections.  I took the kids here one of the days my grandma had a doctor’s apt so we had a few hours to kill.  She said she’d never been in there and didn’t know it was under new ownership (a family now owns it, they bought it in April).

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Sizzler is under new ownership and had an awesome Pumpkin Spice Shooter at the salad bar.  I love their outdoor fountain too.

I walked from the hotel to Gateway Park.  It is a memorial to those that served in the military (a little hard to see since it was at night).

We also went over the border to Arizona.  I’d discovered the city of Quartzsite on the internet and so we thought we’d see what we could find.  Well, in January and February they have a huge gem and mineral expo.  Right now they were setting up for it and there were already vendors moving in for the 2 month rockhound fun.  We visited the Tyson Well State Station Museum (homeschooling at it’s finest) and discovered a museum covering Quartzsite’s history from the 1800’s.  Not only did we enjoy the history lesson, but we discovered the curator, Gilbert Brown, and I have a mutual acquaintance from the Interpretive Center in Thousand Oaks, Ca. From the old school desks to the kitchen table Wyatt Urp sat at and more all in adobe buildings.  I love that the kids got a fun, hands-on, history lesson while we were on vacation.  Mr. Brown answered all of the questions we had, quizzed the kids on their history and showed us around the whole museum.  It is free to visit the museum but I donated money to help them preserve it and keep it open.

We also randomly stopped at a place called Really Good Jerky.  We saw the billboards for over a hundred miles and two friends said they stop here while going deeper in to Az.  My opinion- Delicious jerky.  Decent prices but not enough quality in each bag.  We got 3 bags for $22 and the kids devoured two of them before I made it to the gas station.

If you didn’t know, gas is also cheaper in Az than in Ca.  Just over the border it was a little cheaper but at the ARCO in Quartzsite it was 65 cents cheaper, a gallon, than in Blythe.

Back in Blythe my uncle took the kids 4×4’ing in his jeep.  They identified about 5 bird species and about 4 species of ducks. He also took them to see the weir (a word I didn’t know).  It is like a dam, trapping water in, to help irrigate the fields.

Nearby is Hidden Beaches Resort. A great place to camp if you have a 5th wheel, rv or even to tent camp.  They even had a tiny boat launch.

Blythe also had a holiday Christmas parade that traveled down Hobson Way.  We opped to miss it since it was too cold for my grandma but we saw a lot of the people from the parade at Denny’s after it was over.

All in all, there still isn’t a ton to do in Blythe.  I’d love to see a movie theatre, arcade, bigger book store and large outdoor park for the kids to play.  But I’m glad that we explored more on this visit and found new shops and enjoyed our time.