Each month, Family Trails shares a theme to guide and inspire your Instagram storytelling. Our theme for October was "Bucket List."

Goals are great – especially when it comes to family adventures. Whether you dream of visiting every national park or setting aside one day a week for local exploring, we challenged you to gather your family and chat about the adventures you want to tackle together, and share your experience with #FT_BucketList.

We even designed a free, printable bucket list and conversation prompts to help you put your dreams on paper as a family. Click here to print your own, or check it out in the latest version of TrailsMix!

Because we have been happily overwhelmed with the quality of submissions, we pick four participants each month to receive FamilyTrails swag. Each swag recipient will be announced on Thursdays during the theme period.

So without further ado, here were the winning photos & stories from October's #FT_BucketList challenge!