The campfire's glow is an ideal environment for sharing stories, singing songs, and explaining to the kids why you can't go back home until they've gotten all the bats out. Claim an outdoor space with this Groupon.

$49 for Two Nights of Camping ($106 Value)

Campsites are pull-through sites with water, electric, and sewer hookups on family-friendly campgrounds placed minutes from Lake Monroe. Campers can hike nature trails—one leading to a scenic waterfall—swim in indoor and outdoor pools, putt on a mini-golf course, or ramble along on a wagon ride.

This Groupon may also be used as a $100 credit toward the rental of real log cabins outfitted with restrooms, DirecTV, a porch, and a fire ring outside.

Jellystone Park at Lake Monroe

There are bears at Jellystone Park at Lake Monroe—two of them, to be precise. They hang around the flag pole each morning, loom during story time just before bed, pose for photos with children, and, almost always, dress in dapper neckties.

Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, Jellystone’s resident ursine population, welcome families to campgrounds that lie near the shores of Lake Monroe. Rustically inclined campers can set up tents, and nearly 100 pull-through campsites offer electric, water, and sewer hookups. For camping with access to modern amenities, there are spacious cabins built to withstand the mightiest huffing and puffing from the mascots' cartoon enemies.

Pools, mini golf, and hiking trails fuel hours of family fun, which includes a snowball toss during Christmas in July and a pudding wrestling match during the Death by Chocolate weekend. Located 15 minutes south of Bloomington, the campground can form a launch pad for excursions to golf courses, wineries, and other cultural attractions near Indiana University Bloomington.