
Apollo Beach Visitor Center
New Smyrna Beach / Canaveral option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.
School and family trip guide
Browse Florida field trip places by area, category, weather fit, photos, prices, lunch, parking, accessibility, and reservation details.
Start where the state guide has enough price, booking, photo, and logistics detail to support a useful first shortlist for teachers, homeschool groups, scouts, camps, youth groups, and family planners.
25 places currently roll up into the Orlando metro guide, which makes it the best starting point for “field trips near me” style searches in Florida.
85 places in Florida currently map into this category, making it a practical first stop for teachers who already know the kind of trip they want.
That is the quickest proxy for whether a venue can be compared without extra tab-hopping. Start there if you need costs, chaperone planning, or a clearer reservation path.
For winter, heat, or uncertain weather, begin with those options before checking the more seasonal outdoor-heavy venues.
This page is built for searches like school field trips in Florida, field trips near me, kids field trips, and elementary field trip ideas. Start with free or low-cost options, then narrow by indoor backup, lunch rules, bus/parking, grade fit, and whether the official page gives a clear reservation path.
Use these shortcuts when you are comparing trip ideas by cost, weather fit, subject area, grade band, lunch needs, bus arrival, and reservation effort.
Use this statewide guide first when you need current places with clearer booking, student, teacher, reservation, or class-group language before drilling down into a single city.
These places surface family, mixed-age, or flexible group language strongly enough to make the state page useful for homeschool co-ops, pods, and family outing research without creating a separate thin page.
That makes this page a better first pass for teachers searching broad elementary trip ideas before narrowing by science, nature, museums, animals, history, or arts categories.
If you are starting from a “field trips near me” search, jump into the deepest metro pages first so you can compare local logistics, weather fit, and booking friction with less extra clicking.
Official state park, NPS, agency, and environmental education results often answer cost, curriculum, reservation, accessibility, and group-capacity questions, so these are strong first checks for source-backed outdoor learning.
36 trip options. Save favorites and compare up to three.

New Smyrna Beach / Canaveral option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.

Maitland / Orlando option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Boynton Beach / Miami option for animals and live exhibits; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Orlando option for animals and live exhibits; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.

Ochopee option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Orlando option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Homestead option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.

Homestead / Miami option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Good for an Orlando-area nature day where the family needs real timing decisions: swimming season, winter manatee viewing, capacity risk, picnic/concession planning, and river-cruise add-ons.

Good for a concrete outdoor ecology day with narrated airboat ride, animal/activity rotations, onsite lunch, free bus parking, and a school-trip request path.

Lake Wales / Orlando option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Miami option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Good when an Orlando-area family or school wants a real education day beyond theme parks: standards-aligned programs, lunch options, add-ons, and specific chaperone/capacity examples.

New Smyrna Beach option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.
Good for Orlando-to-Space-Coast planning with a $25 vehicle pass, $15 pedestrian/bike pass, cashless entry, and Apollo Visitor Center hours.

Saint Augustine option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.

Orlando option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Sanford option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Good for a short indoor Orlando break with clear prices: $24 adults, $20 kids ages 4-12, hourly tours from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Clearwater Marine Aquarium field trip with group visit booking, garage parking, third-level entrance, cafe/outdoor seating, and current education planner context.

Miami option for animals and live exhibits; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Orlando option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Good for Orlando/DeLand day planning with $6 vehicle entry, 8 a.m.-sunset hours, wheelchair-accessible trail, accessible boat tour, and relaxed spring pacing.

Homestead option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Homestead / Everglades option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Homestead option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Homestead / Miami option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Miami option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Davie option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Miami option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.

Pensacola option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, reservation, and accessibility.

Pensacola / Fort Pickens option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, group visit, and reservation.

Miami option for animals and live exhibits; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Miami option for STEM exhibits and class discussion; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.

Dry Tortugas / Key West option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.

Orlando option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
This guide currently compares 97 source-backed places in Florida, including Apollo Beach Visitor Center, Art & History Museums Maitland Guided Tours, and Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Field Trips. Start with the cards and city/category guides, then verify dates and booking on the official venue pages.
97 places show published price signals and 97 mention school, group, or field-trip planning details. Use those signals for shortlisting, then confirm student rates, adult/chaperone rules, and reservation timing on each official source.
Orlando is the deepest current local guide with 25 places. It is a better first step for local trip planning than scanning the full statewide list.
Nature Centers & Gardens is the deepest current category with 85 places. Category pages also surface grade bands, curriculum tags, weather fit, photos, and price signals.