School and family trip guide
Browse Tennessee 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.
18 places currently roll up into the Memphis metro guide, which makes it the best starting point for “field trips near me” style searches in Tennessee.
60 places in Tennessee 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 Tennessee, 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.
Nashville option for STEM exhibits and class discussion; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Nashville Adventure Science Center field trip with $8 student general admission, MNPS free admission, free teachers, one free required chaperone per 10 students, 20+ student school group minimum, 140-student group cap, two-week reservation deadline, $5 planetarium/science show/lab add-ons, $10 dissection add-ons, two-hour exhibit window, lunch pavilion, free bus parking.
NASHVILLE option for STEM exhibits and class discussion; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for STEM exhibits and class discussion; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Oak Ridge option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Nashville option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
KINGSPORT option for STEM exhibits and class discussion; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Nashville option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Nashville option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Cades Cove / Great Smoky Mountains option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Chattanooga option for animals and live exhibits; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
CHATTANOOGA option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Nashville option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
OAK RIDGE option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Nashville option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Nashville option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Chattanooga option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Dover / Fort Donelson option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, reservation, and accessibility.
Knoxville option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.
Nashville option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
JOHNSON CITY option for hands-on play and younger elementary kids; helpful details include price, group visit, and reservation.
Knoxville option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and reservation.
South Pittsburg option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Lookout Mountain / Chattanooga option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Knoxville option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for an outdoor or weather-aware trip; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, school trip, and group visit.
Memphis option for a museum-style learning day; helpful details include price, group visit, and lunch.
This guide currently compares 62 source-backed places in Tennessee, including Adventure Science Center, Adventure Science Center Field Trips, and Adventure Science Center Nashville. 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 62 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.
Memphis is the deepest current local guide with 18 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 60 places. Category pages also surface grade bands, curriculum tags, weather fit, photos, and price signals.
