Field trips are a great way to reboot a bad homeschooling week, get out of the house when everyone has cabin fever, and learn about your local area. Before heading out, check out Jeanne's tips for improving homeschool field trips.
Our listing of Vermont field trips for homeschoolers is ordered alphabetically by city. If you would like to submit a Vermont field trip destination, you may do so using the red button above.
Brattleboro Museum & Art CenterBrattleboro
BMAC is a vibrant non-collecting contemporary art museum focused on the work of living artists. An anchor of southern Vermont’s rich cultural life, BMAC brings notable art and artists to Brattleboro and provides a platform for our region’s many artistic talents. BMAC presents 15-20 exhibitions annually, complemented by 60-70 public programs and extensive educational offerings developed in partnership with area schools and service organizations.
Lake Champlain Chocolates ToursBurlington
Visitors take in the aromas and sights ( and free samples)of a real chocolate factory. Learn all about how chocolate is made. Watch the crafting of truffles, caramels, butter crunch, and more.
Cabot CreameryCabot
Cabot Creamery offers free educational programs for classrooms, scout troops, afterschool groups, FFA, 4-H, and more. Through these interactive activities, you'll explore life on a dairy farm, discover what it means to be a B Corp, and learn how to make a positive impact in your community with their co-op program. You can also visit the farms that make up the Cabot Cooperative.
Spare Time EntertainmentColchester
Spare Time is a family entertainment center featuring 36 lanes of bowling, a full service restaurant, catering services for in-house private parties, a new game zone with over 50 of the industry's most popular games, and a brand new state-of-the-art, 2-level laser tag arena. Conveniently located in Colchester, Vermont, Spare Time is the perfect field trip for those cold Vermont days. Located just off exit 16 of Interstate 89 near Costco, four miles north of Burlington.
Fairbanks Museum & PlanetariumJohnsbury
The Fairbanks Museum was founded in 1889 by St. Johnsbury industrialist Franklin Fairbanks. Inside our classic Victorian building, you'll find a dazzling array of animals and artifacts, dolls and tools, shells and fossils, and much more! Take a trip through the cosmos in Vermont's only public planetarium, and see weather forecasts in the works in our Eye on the Sky Weather Gallery. A full calendar of events, workshops, lectures and field programs invites everyone to explore the nature of our world.
Hildene: The Lincoln Family HomeManchester
The home of Robert Todd Lincoln, the only child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to survive to adulthood He built his Georgian Revival mansion in 1905 in the scenic village of Manchester. It became home to only Lincoln descendants until 1975, longer than any other Lincoln residence. Visitors enjoy a brief video presentation, a self-guided tour of Robert and Mary Lincoln's home, listening to the 1,000-pipe Aeolian organ, and access to the Hoyt Formal Gardens.
American Museum of Fly FishingManchester
The museum serves as a repository for, and conservator to, the world's largest collection of angling and angling-related items, numbering in the thousands. Our collections and exhibits thoroughly document the evolution of fly fishing as a sport, art form, craft, and industry in the U.S. and abroad, dating as far back as the 16th century. Rods, reels, flies, tackle, art, photographs, manuscripts, and books form the major portions of the Museum's collections.
Kettle Pond State ParkMarshfield
As early as 1704 Native Americans and the French were using routes through Groton to reach Canada and Massachusetts. Colonists settled this area of Vermont slightly earlier than the rest of the state due to the accessibility the network of waterways provided. The rocky, tree covered hillsides were originally covered by white pine, spruce, hemlock, beech, maple and birch. They were logged by local farmers for lumber, fuel and potash. The logging industry was large scale for almost 100 years while the railroad was operating. Today, logging is still a vital industry in the area, but has lost some of its dominance in favor of modern society's leisure time movement: private cottages and seasonal homes, park development and a variety of outdoor recreation activities.
Henry Sheldon MuseumMiddlebury
The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont is the oldest chartered community history museum in the United States, welcoming visitors and researchers since 1882. It offers lively tours, exhibits and programs to enrich our understanding of Vermont's past. Be sure to visit the Judd-Harris House, built in 1829, showcases a wealth of objects depicting small town life in nineteenth century Vermont.
Vermont's History Museum and LibraryMontpelier
Our museum's permanent exhibit, Freedom and Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories, opened in March 2004 and won a national award. The multimedia exhibit, which represents Vermont's history from 1600 to the present, fills 5,000 square feet in the Pavilion building in Montpelier. Visitors walk through time and experience a full-sized Abenaki wigwam, a re-creation of the Catamount Tavern where Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys gathered, a railroad station complete with a working telegraph and a WWII living room furnished with period music and magazines.
Morristown Historical Society's Noyes House MuseumMorrisville
Explore the vast collection of the Morristown Historical Society and the stories that bring objects to life. The Noyes House Museum presents exhibits and local stories of nineteenth and early twentieth century life in Morristown, VT. The museum's collection includes furniture, textiles, military objects, clothing, photographs, pottery, folk and fine art, tools and objects of daily life. We can tailor your homeschool visit based on specific needs. Summer Hours: June-August Thursday 12pm-4pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-4pm. Fall Hours: September - October Friday 12pm-4pm, Saturday 10am-4pm.
President Calvin Coolidge Historic SitePlymouth
The President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site in Plymouth Notch preserves the birthplace and childhood home of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States. Brought to the world’s attention on August 3, 1923, when Calvin Coolidge took the presidential oath of office in the parlor of his family home, the historic village appears much as it was during Coolidge’s lifetime. The homes of the Coolidge family, their relatives, and friends edge the small village green, joined by the 1840 church, 1890 school house and cheese factory, pre-1835 store with post office and dance hall, and historic agricultural structures and barns. The bucolic image is completed by the 1924 Summer White House office and the tourists’ cabins constructed in 1927 for the first of many visitors making the pilgrimage to explore the rural environs that shaped Coolidge’s life and those of his ancestors who first settled here in the 1780s. A Museum & Education Center, added in 1972 and enlarged in 2010, houses the exhibits and archives recounting Calvin Coolidge’s private and public lives. Visitors to the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site will also enjoy two museum stores, walking trails, and sheltered picnic area. A journey to the Notch ends at the steep hillside cemetery where Calvin Coolidge rests amongst seven generations of his family.
Shelburne MuseumShelburne
Shelburne Museum is one of the finest, most diverse, and unconventional museum of art and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 38 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds.
Vermont Teddy Bear FactoryShelburne
Factory tours are offfered year round
Maple Grove Farms of VermontSt Johnsbury
Visit the Sugar House Museum to learn about the entire sugaring process.
Ben & Jerry's Factory ToursWaterbury
A 30-minute guided ice cream factory tour fun and educational for all ages. Guests learn about the ice cream manufacturing process and explain how values-led decisions are incorporated.
Cold Hollow Cider MillWaterbury Center
Tour the Cold Hollow Cider Mill and see how Cider's been made for hundreds of years by the rack and cloth method on a 1920-vintage press.
Billings Farm and MuseumWoodstock
Billings Farm and Museum in an operating dairy farms which includes a museum of Vermont's rural past. Visitors will experience a first-hand sampling of actual farm work, animals, and agricultural processes. The authentically restored 1890 Farm House features the farm manager's office, family living quarters, and creamery. Interactive programs in the farmhouse for visitors and students interpret 19th century agricultural improvement, butter production, and domestic life. Engaging exhibits housed in 19th century barns depict the annual cycle of rural life and work, as well as the cultural values of Vermont farm families a century ago.
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical ParkWoodstock
The park is a tribute to three generations of conservationists. Visitors can tour the mansion and gardens, hike in the managed forest, and visit the Carriage Barn Visitor Center.
