
One of my favorite bloggers is Tiffany from Sweet Phenomena. I met her through a blogging buddy group that I signed up for. Our daughters are about the same age, and I love reading about her journeys in homeschooling.
Yesterday, she posted a Bucket List of field trips. (here) I decided I wanted to share our bucket list of field and road trips for 2011-2012.
School Field Trips
- Visit Audubon Society
- Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks & Minerals
- Portland Symphony: Peter and the Wolf
- Mt St Helens National Volcanic Monument
- Ape Caves
- Portland Art Museum
- Hatfield Marine Science Center (Homeschool Day is November 4th)
- Hoyt Arboretum
- Lewis & Clark Salt Works
- Oregon Jewish Museum
- Oregon History Museum
- Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve
- Garrison Keillor & A Prairie Home Companion
- Westside Story
- Beauty and the Beast
- SOLV Beach Cleanup
- Silver Falls State Park
- AC Gilbert’s Discovery Village
- Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum
- Galileo Galilei Opera
- Portland Japanese Garden
- The Oregon Garden
- OHSU – To view Portland
- Mt Tabor Park
- Plumper Pumpkin Patch
- Mt Hood SkiBowl
- Oregon Caves National Monument
- Petra School
- Sandy Historical Museum
- Historic Oregon City
- Salem Capitol Building
- National Registry of Historic Places in Washington County, Oregon
- OMSI
- And of course local parks
Road Trips
- Olympic National Park
- Reno, NV – a trip to the cousins is always fun. While there we will visit University of Nevada, Reno, where my brother attends college. We will visit the Nevada Seismological Lab, the VM Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum and the Fleischmann Planetarium & Science Center.
- Joseph Oregon
- Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
- Yosemite National Park
- North Cascades National Park
- Mount Rainier National Park
- Seattle Space Needle
- Vancouver, BC Aquarium
- HR Macmillan Space Centre
- VanDusen Botanical Garden
- Fort Langley
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Those look great! The Plummer Patch looks like fun this fall, that Petra School looks pretty cool too.
I can’t wait until my kids are old enough to go on field trips and road trips! Although makes me a bit nostalgic about my own childhood…