My family of 4 visits the same vacation spot multiple times a year. I hope my kids look back on it fondly.

The author and her family vacation in the Catskills multiple times a year.

Courtesy of Lindsay Karp When I was young, my family used to go to the Jersey Shore.

I look back on those trips fondly.

After becoming parents, my husband and I started our own family tradition.

We found a vacation spot that's perfect for our family.

When I was a child, the Jersey Shore was my magical place.

My great-grandmother, her siblings, and a few other relatives lived there in a high-rise apartment building, so every summer we'd visit for a week.

Looking out from the balcony, I believed the ocean went on forever.

On the bottom floor, the community pool brought children together in carefree, summer bliss.

At the beach, my brother and I used our boogie boards like 16-year-olds with fresh permits, owning the waves until sunset.

I built sandcastles while he dug a never-ending hole to China, and we devoured peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that somehow tasted superior in the salty air.

At night, the boardwalk signs lit up the sky, and Kohr Bros soft serve always hit the spot.

As a kid, there was nowhere else I'd rather be.

When we became parents, we started taking our own summer trips After our kids were born, my husband and I started a Jersey Shore tradition of our own.