Family Field Trip Guide

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Panhandle Piney Plains Woods

Trans-Pecos

Family Field Trip Hill Guide Country

South Texas Gulf Coastal

These field trip ideas will help you discover Texas History adventures near you.

Panhandle Plains

Fort Phantom Hill/Abilene Frontier Texas!/Abilene Fort Griffin State Historic Site/Albany Palo Duro Canyon State Park/Canyon Panhandle Plains Historical Museum/Canyon XIT Ranch Museum/Dalhart Charles Goodnight Historical Center/Goodnight Lake Lubbock Landmark/Lubbock The Science Spectrum (Brazos River Journey)/Lubbock National Ranching Heritage Center/Lubbock American Windmill Museum/Lubbock Devil’s Rope and Route 66 Museum/McLean Petroleum Museum/Midland Fort Belknap/Newcastle Fort Concho/San Angelo

Central Prairies & Cross Timbers

Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site/Anderson Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site/Bonham Blue Bell Creamery/Brenham Texas Cotton Gin Museum/Burton Eisenhower Birthplace/Denison Fort Worth Stockyards/Fort Worth Texas Civil War Museum/Fort Worth Creation Evidence Museum/Glen Rose Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum/Greenville Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historical Site/Mexia Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site/Paris San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site/San Felipe Waco Mammoth Site/Waco Dr Pepper Museum & Free Enterprise Institute/Waco Earle-Harrison House & Gardens/Waco Historic Waco Foundation (Five 19th century homes)/Waco Texas Ranger Hall of Fame/Waco Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historical Site/Washington-on-the-Brazos Star of the Republic Museum/Washington-on-the-Brazos Barrington Living History Farm/Washington-on-the-Brazos Independence Hall/Washington-on-the-Brazos

Piney Woods

Caddo Mounds/Alto Mission Tejas State Park/Grapeland East Texas Oil Museum/Kilgore Starr Family Home State Historic Site/Marshall Old Stone Fort Museum/Nacogdoches Mission Dolores State Historic Site/San Augustine

Gulf Coastal Plains

Texas Energy Museum/Beaumont Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site/Brazoria Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History/Corpus Christi San Jacinto Museum of History/Deer Park Texana Museum/Edna Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Museum/Galveston Texas Seaport Museum (1877 Tall Ship ELISSA)/Galveston Presidio La Bahia/Goliad Liendo Plantation/Hempstead Buffalo Soldiers National Museum/Houston Space Center Houston (NASA Johnson Space Center)/Houston City by the Sea Museum/Palacios Sabine Pass Battleground State Historic Site/Port Arthur Calhoun County Museum/Port Lavaca George Ranch Historical Park/Richmond Fulton Mansion State Historic Site/Rockport Texas Maritime Museum/Rockport Museum of the Coastal Bend/Victoria Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site/West Columbia

South Texas Plains

Fannin Battleground State Historic Site/Fannin Gonzales (Home of the “Come and Take It!” flag)/Gonzales King Ranch Visitor’s Center and King Ranch Museum/Kingsville John E. Conner Museum/Kingsville Casa Navarro/San Antonio The Witte Museum/San Antonio Battle for Texas: The Experience/San Antonio The Alamo/San Antonio Mission Concepcion/San Antonio Mission San Jose/San Antonio Mission San Juan/San Antonio Mission Espada/San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures/San Antonio San Fernando Cathedral (“San Antonio: The Saga” Light show)/San Antonio Rivercenter IMAX (“Alamo: The Price of Freedom”)/San Antonio

Hill Country

Texas Capitol/Austin Bob Bullock “Story of Texas” Museum/Austin Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center/Austin French Legation State Historic Site/Austin Cascade Caverns/Boerne Cave Without a Name/Boerne Natural Bridge Caverns/near Bulverde Longhorn Caverns/Burnet Landmark Inn State Historic Site /Castroville Fort McKavett State Historical Site/Fort McKavett Pioneer Museum/Fredericksburg National Museum of the Pacific War with the Admiral Nimitz Museum/Fredericksburg Inner Space Caverns/Georgetown The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment (formerly Aquarena Springs)/San Marcos Caverns of Sonora/Sonora Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park/Stonewall Sauer-Beckmann Living History Farm/Stonewall

Trans -Pecos

Shumla Archeological Research & Education Center/Comstock Seminole Canyon State Park & Historic Site/near Del Rio Magoffin Home State Historic Site/El Paso Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site/El Paso Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Museum/El Paso Big Bend Camel Trek/Fort Davis Fort Davis National Historic Site/Fort Davis Fort Lancaster State Historical Site/Sheffield