Your Most Memorable Grade School Field Trip?

[BristolCavendish]

Due to district budgetary restrictions, school field trips are gradually becoming a thing of the past for many elementary and high school students. The days of simply hopping onto a yellow bus and heading towards a fascinating and informative destination are seemingly long gone.

In retrospect, I remember some interesting 6th grade field trips. On one occasion, we went to the SF shipping docks and boarded a United Fruit Company banana freighter learning about how the fruit was shipped from Central America to the US. On another excursion, the class visited the United Airlines maintenance hanger at SFO and watched DC-8s being prepared for their next flight. In high school, physics classes frequently visited the linear accelerator (SLAC) at Stanford while physiology students toured the Stanford Med School. Looking back, I recall a resident MD at the med-school morgue confiding to us that he often kept a ham sandwich chilled in one of the slide-out body depositories during his graveyard shifts. These field trips also provided a vocational perspective for those so inclined.

Curious if any TRFers here had any interesting and/or memorable field trips during their elementary and high school years.

[ejvette]

At the risk of dating myself we had an elementary school trip to the 1965 NY worlds fair I was 10 years old and remember sitting behind the wheel of a ford Fairlane convertible in the ford pavilion it was awesome

[mailman]

Baseball HOF, Cooperstown NY

[Canefan1]

Disney World from Miami with high school love by my side.

[Canefan1]

Originally Posted by mailman

Baseball HOF, Cooperstown NY

Awesome. A lot of Yankees in that joint.

[rr-nyc]

I went to boarding school in Massachusetts so school trips were frequent.

Cultural trips to Boston, NYC, and D.C. were all great but the weekend ski trips to Killington and Stowe were the best

[MonBK]

A trip to the Hindenburg factory.

[Canefan1]

Originally Posted by MonBK

A trip to the Hindenburg factory.

Post tragedy Mon?

[superdog]

The zoo has always been my favorite.

[FSUGeoff]

I went to Bone Valley to dig fossils on an overnight trip in middle school. An overnight trip to Sanibel Island, also in middle school.

[THC]

The only place I went to, was to the Principal's office

[Rockrolex]

Originally Posted by THC

The only place I went to, was to the Principal's office

Me, too. That's all I can remember.

[GB-man]

Hiking the Niagara River Gorge was pretty cool in 5th grade. I went to public school so we didn't do anything too fancy

[NewEnthusiast]

Not sure how the relevant age brackets correspond but my best primary school (4 - 11) was on a train to Dunfermline. The destination wasn't spectacular but it wast the first time I got to go across the Forth Bridge. We also got to go up to the driver's cab, sound the horn and make an announcement on the tannoy... I was five and felt like the mutt's nuts!

In secondary school (11 - 17/18) it was to a marine biology research station on the island of Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde where I got my hands on some really cool cutting edge research equipment, ate seafood as it was coming out the sea... and entirely failed to get my hands on the girl who I was head-over heels for at the time. A close second was to the open day at what was to become the university I attended and spent some of the happiest days of my life.

[SemperFi]

My favorite trips were to the Hayden Planetarium and the American Museum of Natural History.

[AzHadEnuf]

Originally Posted by SemperFi

My favorite trips were to the Hayden Planetarium and the American Museum of Natural History.

Spot on Angelo! Hands down the best field trip ever. Spent most of the day seeing everything that had ever happened in history, then got to go to the planetarium and realized most of it was pretty insignificant . It really made my 10 year old mind ponder the meaning or life.

[SemperFi]

Originally Posted by AzHadEnuf

Spot on Angelo! Hands down the best field trip ever. Spent most of the day seeing everything that had ever happened in history, then got to go to the planetarium and realized most of it was pretty insufficient. It really made my 10 year old mind ponder the meaning or life.

Yeah, those trips were pure magic Ralph. I got to relive the experience again whenever I would take my kids there.

[Wesley Crusher]

Not a field trip per se, but I went to Magic Mountain for my high school grad night. The place was packed, but one of my buddies got some crutches and pretended to have a broken leg the whole night. We didn't wait in a single line. It was awesome.

[swils8610]

Hhhmmm. My most memorable field trip was in high school...Attica Prison for a business law class.


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[MILGAUSS88]

Elementary field trip in the 70's, going to the Field Museum in Chicago...... and seeing the hookers as we drove through one of the neighborhoods.

Took one to Washington DC in high school. When we drove through one of the neighborhoods there, I saw a man holding a gun to another man's head. Not sure how that ended.

All in all, very educational.

[MILGAUSS88]

Originally Posted by MILGAUSS88

Took one to Washington DC in high school. When we drove through one of the neighborhoods there, I saw a man holding a gun to another man's head. Not sure how that ended..

Just remembered the bus trip. 24 hours only stopping for lunch and supper, with a 90 year old chaperone, sitting in front of me. (Read free vacation for senior citizen.)
Pretty much awake for the entire trip.
We finally get to the hotel, teacher orders pizza for everyone, except the cook some how managed to quite right before he makes the pizza for the one room that I am in with 2 other people. The teacher brought me a gas store prepackaged turkey sandwich, like that was an acceptable substitute for a high schooler.
The teacher then put us back on the bus for a 2 hour bus tour of DC.
Looking back, I can't believe I didn't strangle him.

[Lamone]

Those school field trips were the best.
We often went to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York Aquarium - brown bag under my arm with PBJ/juice box in it.
On hot days, we would ride the yellow bus to Coney Island.
Those were the days!

[AzHadEnuf]

Originally Posted by ejvette

At the risk of dating myself we had an elementary school trip to the 1965 NY worlds fair I was 10 years old and remember sitting behind the wheel of a ford Fairlane convertible in the ford pavilion it was awesome

Queens

Originally Posted by superdog

The zoo has always been my favorite.

The Bronx

Originally Posted by SemperFi

My favorite trips were to the Hayden Planetarium and the American Museum of Natural History.

Manhattan

Originally Posted by Lamone

Those school field trips were the best.
We often went to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York Aquarium - brown bag under my arm with PBJ/juice box in it.
On hot days, we would ride the yellow bus to Coney Island.
Those were the days!

Brooklyn

Don't know what it would be like nowadays, but in '60's and 70's NYC was the most fun place to be a kid. We also had The Garden, Shea and the house that Ruth built.

[SemperFi]

Originally Posted by AzHadEnuf

Queens



The Bronx



Manhattan



Brooklyn

Don't know what it would be like nowadays, but in '60's and 70's NYC was the most fun place to be a kid. We also had The Garden, Shea and the house that Ruth built.

Let's add a trip on the Staten Island Ferry (especially before the Verrazano was built) and now we've covered all five boroughs.

[AzHadEnuf]

Originally Posted by SemperFi

Let's add a trip on the Staten Island Ferry (especially before the Verrazano was built) and now we've covered all five boroughs.

Those were unauthorized high school trips usually ending the day by chumming over the rail.

[ejvette]

Originally Posted by AzHadEnuf

Queens



The Bronx



Manhattan



Brooklyn

Don't know what it would be like nowadays, but in '60's and 70's NYC was the most fun place to be a kid. We also had The Garden, Shea and the house that Ruth built.

Spot on Ralph

[Andad]

My earliest memory is solitary confinement.

[cajunron]

My classmates and I had the privilege to see the King Tut exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art when it made it's US tour in 1977.

[Tri-Tip]

I don't remember any of the destinations, so I guess they were not that spectacular.

I do remember giving the "hit the air horn" signal to every truck we were next to, and most of them delivered!

[Ruud Van Driver]

Wow, 28 posts and no one's accused BC of trolling yet. Is that a record?

Anyhoo, what's a 'school'?