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

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 monthly homeschool day programs for students of all ages! Young learners in PreK-Grade 2 can explore the Goizueta Children’s Experience, the new interactive 5,000-square-foot exhibit exploring the city’s history.

Chattahoochee Nature Center

Explore the 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

Discover the Chick-fil-A® College Football Hall of Fame — an unforgettable field trip for educators and students alike! Immerse students in the rich traditions and pageantry of college football while gaining valuable lessons in teamwork, leadership and hard work. With more than 50 interactive experiences, witness the greatness of legendary players and coaches.

Fernbank Museum

Engage students with an interactive field trip at Fernbank Museum that will inspire curiosity through adventures in science, nature and human culture. Students can explore three floors of engaging exhibits, witness dramatic documentaries in the four-story Giant Screen Theater, and discover 75 acres of outdoor nature adventures in Wildwoods and Fernbank Forest.

Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites

From Civil War sites and historic homes to longleaf pine forests and salt marshes, Georgia’s State Parks & Historic Sites have the cultural and natural resources that will make science and social science studies real and memorable for your students. Panola Mountain, Sweetwater Creek, and Red Top Mountain State Park are all within 45 minutes from Atlanta.

High Museum of Art

Discover the High Museum of Art’s engaging field trips, where students can dive into the world of art through tours and interactive programs. Led by expert docents, school tours are tailored to different grade levels and include handson activities that bring learning to life.

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.

New Echota-Cherokee Capital State Historic Site

Discover the rich history of this historic site. Students will enjoy a Ranger-guided tour of twelve historic and reconstructed buildings, a 17-minute film, and museum gallery exhibits. Tour highlights include a Cherokee farmstead, the 1827 Missionary Home-Station, the 1803 Vann’s Tavern-Store, the Phoenix Newspaper Printing Office, the Cherokee Supreme Court House, and the Cherokee Council House.

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 handson experiments to educational hikes and outdoor games, the Park’s carefully crafted programs will captivate students of all ages.

Sloomoo Institute

Sloomoo Institute is a huge, interactive slime museum for kids and kids at-heart. Time to get immersed in bright colors, yummy scents, an exploration of never-ending slime textures, #satisfying ASMR sounds and more. Walk on slime, slingshot slime, design your own slime (choose the texture, scent, and color; every guest leaves with a custom slime), and get slimed at Sloomoo Falls.

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.

Tellus Museum

From dinosaurs and fossils to rockets and stars, Tellus Science Museum provides STEM-based curriculum for students at all grade levels and meets Georgia’s Standards of Excellence. Field trips engage, educate and inspire students to make scientific connections through enriching experiences, and include gallery time, hands-on learning activities in the labs and more.

U.S. Space & Rocket Center

For an out-of-this-world field trip experience, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center is the space for you! From the first glimpse of the towering Saturn V moon rocket, the Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., inspires students to think big about their future. Field trip options include self-guided exploration of the American space program plus live, interactive shows in the world-class INTUITIVE® Planetarium.

William Root House

Explore the William Root House, one of the oldest and best-preserved houses remaining in the Atlanta area. Within these 180-year-old walls, award-winning electronic displays describe what life was like for the Root family and their enslaved house servants. Curriculum-aligned activity books, scavenger hunts, and interactive areas are engaging and enriching for all ages.

Zoo Atlanta

Connect students to animals, wildlife conservation and research at Zoo Atlanta through a variety of Field Trip options. Take a walk on the wild side through programs led by Zoo Atlanta Educators during a Wild Walk or Zoo Challenge Field Trip.