Top Field Trips for Schools, Groups and Families in Atlanta and Beyond

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Great field trips build on classroom learning and inspire students. Make these destinations part of your 2025 school year plan.

[Featured Field Trips]

Alliance Theatre

Alliance Theatre offers developmentally appropriate field trips for preschool through 12th grade. Working with the country’s top theater talents, these world-class productions create the powerful experience of shared theatre for a diverse audience. Title I and group discounts are available.

The Art Barn

Connecting kids to art, animals and agriculture, enjoy Georgia’s best educational farm field trip at the Art Barn. Hop a hayride, meet the animals and chickens, discover superhero honeybees and earthworms, and create an awesome piece of art. Five hands-on learning stations are just the right length to hold students’ attention as they travel around the farm.

Atlanta History Center

Atlanta History Center offers educational and engaging guided tours and a monthly Homeschool Day program for students of all ages! Students interact with historical objects, tour exhibitions and historic houses, and learn through hands-on activities and experiences.

Calhoun-Gordon County

Discover educational adventures in Calhoun-Gordon County! Explore Cherokee history at New Echota, hands-on agriculture at Copper Creek Farm, and arts and culture at the Harris Arts Center, home to the Roland Hayes Museum. Perfect for learners of all ages.

Chattahoochee Nature Center

Explore Chattahoochee Nature Center with your class for fun, educational experiences your students will never forget! CNC offers a variety of programs for all ages and grade levels, designed to engage students’ natural curiosity and provide experiential learning opportunities in nature.

Chick-fil-A Backstage Tours

Join the Chick-fil-A® Backstage Tour team on a fun and inspiring experience to learn more about the history, culture and values of Chick-fil-A and its founder, S. Truett Cathy. The Original Tour is a 60-minute guided experience; participants hear from three generations of the Cathy Family in an introductory film and visit Truett’s Office, the History Museum and Truett’s classic car collection.

Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame

Book your field trip early and beat the rush at the College Football Hall of Fame! With 50+ interactive exhibits, a 45-yard indoor playing field and STEAM-based programming tied to Georgia Standards, it’s the perfect mix of education and energy.

Fernbank Museum

Give your students a dino-mite learning experience that will inspire curiosity through adventures in science, nature and human culture. Students can explore three floors of engaging museum exhibits, witness dramatic documentaries in the 4-story Giant Screen Theater, and discover 75 acres of outdoor nature adventures in Wildwoods and Fernbank Forest.

Historic Donaldson-Bannister Farm

At the historic 1870s Donaldson-Bannister Farm, classes rotate through the two-acre property, allowing students to step into the past. Hosted by the Dunwoody Preservation Trust, two-hour field trips are correlated to the Georgia Standards of Excellence and offer a historical hands-on, minds-on learning experience.

Marietta History Center

Field trips for all ages! Your students’ curiosity in history will explode with fresh exhibits, guided field trips, preschool tours, history trunk rentals and research resources.

The Michael C. Carlos Museum

Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of art and culture at Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum. Through interactive and interdisciplinary thematic tours, students explore Africa; ancient Egypt, Nubia, and the Near East; ancient Greece and Rome; the Indigenous Americas; and South Asia, as well as American and European works on paper.

The Pettit Preserve

Explore and learn at The Pettit Environmental Preserve! Field trips at this 70-acre environmental preserve connect students with nature and include educational, hands-on outdoor-based curricula, designed to teach about local environments and standards-based science concepts.

Piedmont Park Conservancy

Connect students with Atlanta’s beautiful Piedmont Park! Piedmont Park Conservancy STEM-based field trips are aligned to Georgia Standards of Excellence and utilize the unique natural resources of the park to guide lessons. From hand on experiments to educational hikes and outdoor games, the Park’s carefully crafted programs will captivate students of all ages.

Pine Mountain Gold Museum

Spend an amazing day less than an hour from Atlanta. Learn about the history of Georgia’s first gold strike, ride the scenic train, pan for gold and gems, and tour the grounds and exhibits at Villa Rica’s Pine Mountain Gold Museum at Stockmar Park.

Sloomoo Institute

Sloomoo Institute’s newest playscape – LooMoosh’s Magnificent Mold – mirrors the enigmatic science of intelligent slime mold through inflatable tubes, air and light, where students activate a large-scale “slime mold” by jumping on “lilly pads” in an enchanting forest. The hands-on, STEAM-based Sloomoo experience is full of science facts, #satisfying ASMR and journeys of scent, sound and play.

Southeastern Railway Museum

The fast track to unforgettable field trips! Hands-on experiences bring rail history to life, with programs designed for visiting school groups, preschool classes, day care groups or homeschool groups. School groups may also choose to take a regular tour without the lesson option. All tours include a train ride.

World of Coca-Cola

World of Coca-Cola is an ideal field trip destination, offering students an engaging blend of education and tasty fun. Visitors can explore the science behind Coca-Cola beverages while uncovering the brand’s pop culture impact and rich history.

Zoo Atlanta

Connect your students to wildlife and wild places through a variety of field trip options at Zoo Atlanta! Take a walk on the wild side through programs led by Zoo Atlanta Educators during a Wild Walk or Zoo Challenge Field Trip.