Field Trips

Bring your students to the best outdoor classroom, your National Parks!

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Self-Guided Field Trips

The parks are available for you and your students to enjoy! You do not need a ranger guided tour to bring your students to the parks. Use your own curriculum for a field trip and let us know if you have questions while planning.

Due to staffing levels and logistics, we are not offering ranger-led field trips to sequoia groves during the 2024-2025 season. To take your students to these areas, they will need to be self-guided trips.

Before visiting, please fill out an academic fee waiver to let us know you are coming.

 

Ranger-Led Field Trips

Ranger-Led Field Trips are offered November through April. The program request form will be posted here in the fall.

Bring your class to the parks to explore history and geology in the foothills at Hospital Rock. This curriculum-based program involves hands-on investigation and is taught collaboratively by rangers and classroom teachers.

Field Trip Program: Layers in Time

Introduces students to the Native American tribes who once lived in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Students participate in a mock–archeological dig and examine Native American artifacts. Ideally, this field trip is combined with a classroom program before the park visit.