Missouri and Surrounding Areas Day/Field Trip Ideas (Created by Stacey H. from Missouri Homeschoolers and used with permission) Atchison, KS Cape Girardeau (cont) Jackson Amelia Earhart Museum and Earthwork Malaina’s Magical Playland Trail of Tears State Park Atchison Rail Museum Safari Playland Mount St Scholastica Jackson County St Benedicts Abbey Cassville Missouri Town 1855 Roaring River State Park Augusta Jefferson City Centennial Farms and Orchards Collinsville IL Jefferson City capital tours, Governor’s Mansion, Klondike Park Cahokia Mounds and more. [email protected] Missouri State Museum Barry County Columbia Runge Conservation Nature Center Promised Land Safari Park Columbia Audubon Nature Sanctuary Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area Jonesburg Belleview Finger Lakes State Park Daniel Boone Conservation Area Elephant Rock Grindstone Nature Area MKT Trail Joplin Bellville, IL MU Columns/Avenue of the Columns Fisco Greenway Trail Eckert Farms MU Enns Entomology Museum MU Museum of Anthropology Kahoka Blue Springs MU Museum of Art & Archaeology Schefflers Rock Shop Burr Oak Woods Nature Center Pinnacles Youth Park Lake Remembrance Rockbridge Memorial State Park Kansas City American Jazz Museum Bonne Terre Defiance Arabia Steamboat Museum Bonne Terre Mines Daniel Boone Home Great Wolf Lodge St. Francois State Park Grinter Place (KS side) The Space Museum Eldon Kansas City Renaissance Fest- KC Funny Farm Petting Zoo www.kcrenfest.com Branson Stark Caverns Kansas City Zoo Bass Pro Shop Legoland Branson Belle River Boat Cruises Eminence Museum of Illusions Branson Dinosaur Museum Alley Spring Grist Mill National Ag Center and Hall of Fame (KS side) Branson Veteran’s Memorial Museum Echo Bluff State Park Valley Springs National Archive Butterfly Palace Rocky Falls Shut-in National WWI Museum and Monument Dolly’s Stampede Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Hollywood Wax Museum Eureka Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Inspiration Tower Endangered Wolf Sanctuary Science City Marvel Cave Route 66 State Park Sea Life Mystic Cavern Six Flags Union Station Kansas City Ozark Off-Road ATV 90 Minute Adventure We Rock the Spectrum Promised Land Zoo Fenton Wonderscope Children’s Museum Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation Area Bird Sanctuary Shepherd of the Hills Lone Elk Park Kimmswick Sight and Sounds Theatre Sky Zone Kimmswick Missouri- Silver Dollar City Swing Around Fun Town https://gokimmswick.com/kimmswick-attractions/ Table Rock Lake We Rock the Spectrum Table Rock Lakeshore Trail Kingdom City Talking Rocks Cavern Festus Central Missouri Renaissance Fest-Kingdom The Creation Experience Museum West City Park City www.centralmorenfest.net Titanic Museum White River Valley Trail Grey Summit Kirksville World’s Largest Toy Museum Purina Farms Sugar Creek Conservation Area Shaw’s Nature Preserve Thousand Hills State Park Booneville Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Hannibal Knob Noster Warm Springs Clydesdale Ranch Mark Twain Boyhood Home Knob Noster State Park Mark Twain Cave and Compound Burfordville Lampe Bollinger Mill State Historic Site Herculaneum Dogwood Canyon Nature Park Kade’s Playground Caledonia Lawson Corn maze and pumpkin patch Highlandville Watkins Mills State Park Busiek State Forest Wildlife Area Camden County Leasburg Ozarks State Park -Ozarks Caverns Hillsboro Cathedral Cave Covered Bridge Park Onondaga Cave Camdenton Bridal Cave Imperial Lebanon Ha Ha Tonka State Park Mastodon State Park Bennett Spring State Park

Cameron Independence Macon Wallace State Park Harry S. Truman Library Long Branch State Park National Frontier Trails Museum Cape Girardeau Mansfield Lazy L Safari Park Laura Ingalls Wilder home, Museum, and Grave Maryland Heights Springfield MO (cont) St. Louis (cont.) Go Ape Treetop Adventure Coarse Springfield Botanical Gardens St. Louis History Museum Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum Springfield Conservation Nature Center St. Louis Old Court House The Jungle Gym St. Louis Zoo Middlebrook Wonders of Wildlife Museum Stuckmeyers Farms Johnson Shut-ins Suson Park Taum Sauk Mountain State Park Springfield IL Ted Drewes Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Tomb and The Arch Millstadt IL Museum The Boat House Eckert Farms New Salem The Butterfly House War Memorials The Challenger Space Center Monroe County The Civil War Museum (Jefferson Barracks) Mark Twain Lake Stanton The Fox Theatre Jesse James Wax Museum The Magic House-Kirkwood Meramec Caverns The Muny Neosha The Science Center / Planetarium Country Critter Farm and Petting Zoo Riverside Wildlife Center Tilles Park Wild Animal Adventures Tower Grove Park New Madrid Turtle Playground New Madrid Historical Museum St. Charles August A. Busch Conservation Area Wildwood Community Park World’s Fair Pavilion Noel Bass Pro Shop St. Charles Historical District Bluff Dwellers Cave St. Robert Weldon Springs Clark Trail Uranus Fudge Factory Osborn St. Genevieve Shatto Milk Company Sullivan Crown Animal Sanctuary Fisher Cave Hawn State Park Osage Beach Meramec State Park Pickle Springs Park Bagnell Dam The Buldoc House Lake of the Ozarks Taney County The Linden House Lake Taneycomo

Ozark St. Joseph Ancient Ozarks Natural History Museum Troy Glore Psychiatric Museum Bull Shoals Lake Cuiver River State Park Jesse James / Pony Express Smallin’ Civil War Cave Patee House Museum Stained Glass Theatre Valley Mines Remington Nature Center Critter Lane Petting Zoo Walter Cronkite Museum Patterson Sam A. Baker State Park Van Buren St Louis Cave Spring Park Babler Memorial State Park-Wildwood Perry County Current River and Caves Bluff View Trail Falling Spring Mill Missouri National Veteran’s Memorial Carondelet Park Perry County Military History Museum Castlewood State Park-Ballwin Versailles Veteran’s Wall of Honor Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis Jacob’s Cave City Garden Sculpture Park Morgan County Museum Perryville City Museum Perryville Pumpkin Farm Compton Hill Reservoir Warrenton

Creve Coeur Lake and Park Pumpkins and Pines Piedmont Edgar M. Queeny County Park Clearwater Lake Field House Museum Warsaw Gateway Arch Riverboat Cruises Harry S. Truman State Park and Lake Platte City https://www.gatewayarch.com/experience/riverb Lost Valley Fish Hatchery Platte Falls Conservation Area oat-cruises/ Grant’s Farm Washington Ridgedale Griot Museum of Black History Corn Cob Pipe Factory and Museum Lost Canyon Nature Trail and Cave Holocaust Museum Heritage Valley Tree Farm Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum Model Train Museum Saddlebrook http://www.jbtelmuseum.org/ National Tiger Sanctuary Landmarks Downtown East Walking Tour Wayne County Landmarks Downtown West Walking Tour Lake Wappapello Salem Laumeier Sculpture Park-Kirkwood Current River State Park Lemp Haunted Neighborhood Walking Tour Wentzville Devil’s Well Cave Myseum St. Louis Renaissance Fest-Wentzville Montauk State Park National Blues Museum www.stlrenfest.com National Museum of Transportation Powder Valley Conservation Area-Kirkwood West Plains Springfield MO Rock Hollow Trail Bass Pro Shop Pumpkin Patch Rock Hollow Trail-Ballwin Dickerson Park Zoo Rockwood Reservation Maple Sugaring- Discovery Center of Springfield Weston Wildwood Fantastic Caverns Weston Bend State Park Sachs Butterfly House-Chesterfield Frisco Highline Trail Scott Joplin House Galloway Creek Greenway St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station (Opens Lake Springfield Park Winter 2019) Missouri Institute of Natural Science St. Louis Art Museum Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Various Locations throughout the State St. Louis Art Museum National Sporting Arms Museum Katy Trail State Park St. Louis Botanical Gardens/Shaws Garden Night Ghost Tour of Pythian Castle Missouri Eagle Days/Eagle Watching- St. Louis Forest Park Sequiota Park https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/eagle-days-5 St. Louis Haunted History Walking Tour Springfield Art Museum