8 Hang up and camp.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

Kids are getting bigger while state park budgets are wasting away, Stateline reports. Obesity more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents over the last 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meanwhile, legislative funding for state parks has dropped by about 10 percent nationwide in the last five years, according to the National Association of State Park Directors. To lure kids away from their phones and video games and into the parks, several states are sponsoring camping trips, running...