Learn About Your Experience: Historic Fort Snelling

New places and stories to explore!

Your 2 hour field trip gives you the opportunity to create your own unique site experience that includes so many places for you and your group to learn about the many stories that Historic Fort Snelling has to share on our 22 acres with lots of great options. There are more spaces to explore with both staff and teacher-led opportunities and activities.

  • Plan to arrive 15 minutes early for check-in.
  • Staff will greet you upon arrival and provide a brief site orientation.
  • Each group leader will receive a "passport" of stations and a map of the site.
  • At their own pace, teachers and chaperones will guide groups between their choice of staff-led and self-guided locations.
  • Self-guided locations include informational signage.
  • Complete your journey and get your passport stamped at the Visitor's Center before departure.

Summer field trips

Bring your summer group to Historic Fort Snelling to participate in the fort field trip and discover there is more to history than meets the eye.

New this summer

  • Explore a newly revitalized site and visitor center
  • Experience a one-room schoolhouse lesson and historic games
  • Use an activity map to take a Story Adventure into the past and learn the stories of people who have lived in and around the fort

Wednesdays–Fridays • 10 am–4 pm • June 12–August 30, 2024

  • Length of program: 2 hours
  • $8 per student
  • Free bus parking
  • Picnic area available

Reservations are required. There is a fee for cancellations and/or rescheduling less than 14 days before the scheduled field trip.

Historic Fort Snelling

200 Tower Avenue 
St. Paul, Minnesota 55111 
Bus directions and parking

Cost

  • $8 per student, $80 minimum group fee
  • Teachers and staff free
  • One free chaperone per five students. Additional chaperones invoiced at student rate.
  • Admission costs are for anyone age 4 and over
  • Memberships and 6th grade passes are not valid on field trip days.

Billing information

No payment will be accepted the day of the field trip. All schools will be invoiced after their trip. For more information see our Program Policies.

Cancellation fee

Cancellations must be received 14 days before your trip. See our Program Policies. Contact us at fieldtrips@mnhs.org if you need to reschedule.

Details

Museum store and amenities are available at the new visitor center.

Scholarships, grants, and subsidies

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