50 Fun Summer Bucket List Ideas for 2024 (updated) - Travel Eat Blog (2024)

Welcome, summer! Are you ready for your most adventurous, fun summer? Here are summer bucket list ideas for you to accomplish this year!

1. Have a backyard party with your family.
2. Visit a place you have never been to before. Find a new destination in one of these Great US Summer Vacation Ideas andthis American Bucket Listand travel safely.
3. Have breakfast with friends or a breakfast date with your significant other.
4. Spend the day outdoors, hiking a local trail, and go hammocking.
5. Read a new book. I am planning to read this one and this one this summer.
6. Have a bonfire – and don’t forget s’mores!
7. Join my #EnjoyJuly Challenge!
8. Be a tourist in your own city.
9. Go out on a river and kayak/canoe or just go swimming.
10. Go on a bike ride around the city.
11. Go to a garage sale.
12. Fly a kite on the beach.
13. Go to an outdoor concert (or zoom to an online concert? Is that a thing yet?).
14. Bake a cheesecake.
15. Build a sandcastle.
16. Stargaze.
17. Go to a water park.
18. Go to a wine tasting. No wine tastings open in your area? No problem, sign up to a wine club and get a couple of bottles to taste with your significant other or friends!
19. Feed the birds in a square or in a park.
20. Watch fireworks on the 4th of July.
21. Have a picnic.
22. Visit an aquarium.
23. Go strawberry picking.
24. Watch the sunset.
25. Go on a road trip with friends or family.
26. Grill outside or go to a BBQ.
27. Try paddleboarding or kayaking.
28. Make Sangria.
29. Volunteer somewhere. Find a cause that you are passionate about and contribute to it.
30. Go to a museum. Art, history, or science – learn something new. There are many virtual museum experiences coming up now.
31. Eat watermelon and all the other fruit you can find.
32. Go to a farmer’s market and get local fruit and veggies.
33. Grow a plant yourself – buy some planters for your balcony or grow them in your backyard.
34. Explore a new restaurant in your city.
35. Call and spend time with a friend you haven’t spoken to in a while.
36. Visit a zoo.
37. Find a swimsuit that you actually love.
38. Learn to make kombucha yourself.
39. Watch a drive-in movie – have you ever been to one?
40. Make a surprise visit to your parents.
41. Start learning a new language.
42. Learn a new skill – something you’ve been interested in for a while. I will be practicing piano a lot the summer, but it could be anything – tap dancing, piano, woodworking, pottery. Tell me yours in the comments below!
43. Engage in a new culture at a street festival – try new food, meet new people, and learn more about a life that’s different from our own!
44. Have a movie marathon.
45. Ride in a hot air balloon – there are quite a few hot air balloon festivals out there!
46. Go a full day without the Internet or TV.
47. Go backpacking with a friend.
48. Make homemade ice cream.
49. Make fresh lemonade.
50. Get out of the city for a weekend, rent a cabin, or go camping.
51. Make your own bucket list! I have put together quite a few ideas – use this list to compile your own!

The best part about a bucket list is that it should be your own. I’ve given you a few ideas of things to do this summer. Pick and choose from this list of summer bucket list ideas and create one that will be perfect for you. I hope this summer is the best of your life and you will become a traveler in your own town and see the world!
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Tell me: What are your plans for this summer? Tell me your bucket list additions below!