Photo ID for 16 year old?

[PegNRay]

You could get your teenager a state Id.

[Mistizoom]

I would suggest that she get a passport card. It is good for travel between Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean by land or sea. (It is not valid for air travel, however.) The obvious advantage of a passport card over a driver's license is that, unlike a driver's license, it proves that you are a U.S. citizen. It also has embedded information that would aid the U.S. Embassy or consulate should you ever be in need of their services.

We always leave our passports in the safe and just take our passport cards when going ashore.

 

This is exactly what I do. It doesn't cost much more than the passport itself and it is nice to have an additional form of federal ID.