School and family trip guide
Browse New Hampshire 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.
7 places currently roll up into the Concord metro guide, which makes it the best starting point for “field trips near me” style searches in New Hampshire.
55 places in New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire, 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.
Exeter option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Manchester Amoskeag Fishways planning with NH Audubon place-based school programs, $150 one-hour standard programs plus mileage, $225 live-animal programs, $200 two-hour Wild New Hampshire outdoor field trips, 25-student interactive/hike limits, six-week school-year booking, two-week summer booking.
Andres Institute of Art field trip with free dawn-to-dusk sculpture trail access, 140-acre open-air museum context, 100+ permanent sculptures, school/class/club programs, docent-led group hikes by advance notice, 106 Route 13 parking, printable and interactive trail maps, 1-2+ hour visit planning, carry-in/carry-out rules, water and bug spray reminders, secure-shoe terrain notes, accessibility accommodations by email/phone.
Londonderry option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
HOLLIS option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Portsmouth option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Kancamagus / White Mountains option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, group visit, and reservation.
Canterbury option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Moultonborough option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
KEENE option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Dover option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Manchester option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Enfield option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Greenland option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Keene option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Hanover option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Bedford option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Glen option for animals and live exhibits; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
WATERVILLE VALLEY option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price.
PLYMOUTH option for STEM exhibits and class discussion; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.
Concord option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Concord option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Concord option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Merrimack option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Manchester option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
NORTH CONWAY option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Mount Washington option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
North Conway option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Warner option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Warner option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
NORTH SUTTON option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.
Statewide / Concord option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
WOLFEBORO option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.
Milton option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Milton option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Concord option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
This guide currently compares 61 source-backed places in New Hampshire, including American Independence Museum Education Programs, Amoskeag Fishways School Programs, and Andres Institute of Art School Visits. Start with the cards and city/category guides, then verify dates and booking on the official venue pages.
57 places show published price signals and 61 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.
Concord is the deepest current local guide with 7 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 55 places. Category pages also surface grade bands, curriculum tags, weather fit, photos, and price signals.
