Field Trips
Field Trips
Farms
A trip to a farm can be a seasonal experience, enjoying fall festivals, picking berries, find your way through a corn maze, and picking pumpkins. Some can also be educational as you take a look behind the scenes at a creamery, feed the animals, or learn what goes into growing apples.Field trips can be free or fee depending on who's offering. Check their websites to find out what days are free or visit SCFD Free Days to get a listing of qualifying venues.
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In the fall, visit Anderson Farms for a Corn maze, fall festival, zombie paintball, Halloween haunted hayride and ghost town, and private campfire sites for the family. In spring and summer, field trips allow students to visit during planting season and learn about seeds and pumpkin life cycles.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
Yes
Location:
Erie
In the fall, visit Anderson Farms for a Corn maze, fall festival, zombie paintball, Halloween haunted hayride and ghost town, and private campfire sites for the family. In spring and summer, field trips allow students to visit during planting season and learn about seeds and pumpkin life cycles.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Lafayette
Try to make your way through the corn maze. It's different every year! Pick your favorite pumpkin, take a hayride, and more. They have fall decorating items to choose from as well.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Canon City
Give the corn maze a try at Fritzler Farm Park. You can also enjoy a ride on the ATV mini rollercoaster barrel train, go-carts, shoot ears of corn and mini pumpkin targets, super pumpkin cannon, and play in the corn box for kids to bury themselves in corn. Check out the pumpkin patch to pick yourself up a pumpkin.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Greeley
Visit the maze and pumpkin patch in the fall. In both spring and fall, children can take a field trip to the farm. Take a hayride, learn about trees, farming and equipment.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Bennett
Visit the farm to help children learn where their vegetables come from. You can go on a tractor pull ride to pick produce from the fields. They have many activities to choose from: jumping pillow, trains, planes, space ships, tractors, fire truck, monster trucks, petting zoo, corn maze, a dirt hill, and hay pyramid.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Platteville
Explore the farm to visit with animals, explore the corn and hay bale maze, pick pumpkins, take a hay ride or try a fall treat.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Broomfield
Enjoy a fall festival at the pumpkin patch. Visit the organic farm stand, paint a pumpkin, jump on the inflatable obstacle course, go through the corn tunnel, get lost in the hay bale maze, pet the animals in the petting zoo, and see the honey bees.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Longmont
The Tigges Farm has a pumpkin patch, roasted chilies, a farm equipment museum, pumpkin desert contest, chile salsa contest, craft workshops, yodeling cowboy show, conestoga wagon ride, and a nation 4-H week bake sale.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Greeley
Experience rural life on the farm where you will find all sorts of farm animals, huge shade trees with tire swings, sandboxes, bicycles, tractors, hammocks, free-roaming chickens and peacocks, giant tree houses, an abandoned airplane and a zipline. Horse rides on weekends only. Tickets must be prepurchased in advance.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Longmont
Berry Patch Farms is a working farm with u-pick berries, soil experiments, planting seeds, tours, straw maze, hay ride, bee talk, and pumpkin picking.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Brighton
Colon Orchards grows heritage apples as well as a large selection of pumpkins, cucumbers, summer & winter squash, tomatoes, and more. Kids are taken for a walk through the orchard to learn about the cycles of apple trees, irrigation, and how apples grow. They also learn about good and bad bugs. Each child gets their own apple, pumpkin and apple cider to enjoy.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Canon City
Cure Organic Farm is a commercial family farm growing organic produce. The farm makes a great home to honey bee hives, hens, ducks and pigs. Weekly volunteer days are also offered for kids that want some hands-on experience working on a farm.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Boulder
Field trips to Ya Ya Farm & Orchard will take you on a tractor ride through the orchard and teach you the history of the farm and all about apples. Enjoy their delicious apple cider donuts afterwards and pickup some heirloom apples in the gift shop when in season.
Ages:
All Ages
Fee:
Yes
Free Day:
No
Homeschool Day:
No
Location:
Longmont
