50+ Field Trips Around Raleigh, NC

updated:  8/23/18

Here is a list of fifty over sixty field trips that are close to Raleigh, NC. A couple of them are up to 3 hours away, but they are ones we have actually done in a day - get up really early and get home late - and are worth the drive. There are lots more that would require an overnight stay, but I'll put those in a different post.

1.  Agape Center for Environmental Education (Fuquay-Varina)
2.  Airborne and Special Ops Museum (Fayetteville)
3. ArtSpace (Raleigh) 
4.  Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education (Raleigh)
5. Blue Jay Point County Park nature classes (Raleigh)
6. Camp Flintlock (Four Oaks) 
7. Carolina Ballet - Nutcracker Student Matinee (Raleigh) - Dec. 
8. Carolina Theater - Arts Discovery Educational Series (Durham) 
9. Carolina Tiger Rescue (Pittsboro)
10. Clemmons Educational State Forest (Clayton)
11.  Country Doctor Museum (Bailey)
12. Duke Homestead State Historic Site (Durham)
13.  Duke Lemur Center (Durham) 
14. Durant Nature Preserve (N.Raleigh)  
15. Durham Bulls Education Days - baseball (Durham) 
16. Fort Macon State Park (Atlantic Beach) 
17. Grady-White Boats Factory (Greenville) 
18. Guilford Courthouse National Military Park (Greensboro) 
19.  Harris Energy and Environmental Center (nuclear power) (New Hill)
20.  Hill Ridge Farms (Youngsville)
21.  Historic Oak View County Park (Raleigh)
22. Historic Oakwood Cemetery history tours ( Raleigh )
23. Historic Stagville Plantation (Durham)
24. Homeland Creamery dairy farm (Julian )
25. Imagination Station Science and History Museum (Wilson) 
26. Interfaith Food Shuttle Teaching Farm (Raleigh)
27. International Civil Rights Center and Museum (Greensboro) 
28. Joel Lane House (Raleigh) 
29.  Lowes Foods "From the Field" Trips  (local store)
30.  Marbles Kids Museum / IMAX Theater (Raleigh)
31. Martin Marietta Rock Quarry (Raleigh)  
32. Millstone Creek Apple Orchard (Ramseur)
33. Morehead Planetarium and Science Center (Chapel Hill) 
34.  Museum of Life and Science (Durham)
35.  New Hope Valley Railway (New Hill) 
36.  NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher (Kure Beach)
37.  NC Museum of Art (Raleigh)
38.  NC Museum of History (Raleigh)
39. NC Museum of Natural Sciences (Raleigh)
40. NC State Capitol (Raleigh) 
41. NC Symphony concerts  (Raleigh)
42.  NCSU Solar Center/Solar House (Raleigh) 
43.  NC Transportation Museum (Spencer) 
44. NC Zoo (Asheboro) 
45. North Carolina State Parks (statewide)
46.  Old Salem (Winston-Salem)
47.  Raleigh Little Theater: Beyond the Stage Door (Raleigh)
48.  Red Hill Farm - horses (Franklinton)
49.  RDU Airport Observation Park (Raleigh) 
50. Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences (Rocky Mount)
51.  Scrap Exchange (Durham) 
52. Snow Camp Outdoor Theater: Pathway to Freedom (Snow Camp - summer) 
53. Tryon Palace (New Bern) 
54. USS North Carolina (Wilmington)
55. Videri Chocolate Factory (Raleigh)
56.  Vollmer Farms : Pumpkin Patch and Back 40 (Bunn) Oct.
57.  Wake Weekly newspaper (Wake Forest) 
58.  WCPE Classical Radio Station (Wake Forest)
59.  WRAL TV Station and Weather Center (Raleigh) 
60.  US Post Office   ( local)  
61. Wake Forest Fire Department (Wake Forest)
62. Wake Forest Police Dept. K9 unit (Wake Forest)

We haven't been on ALL of these field trips, but definitely a lot of them over the years -  Blue Jay Point, NC Museums of History and Natural Science, Historic Oak View,  Harris Nuclear Energy Center, USS North Carolina, WCPE Radio Station, Wake Weekly newspaper office, Morehead Planetarium, International Civil Rights Center, Duke Lemur Center.    Alamance Battleground "Colonial Week"is one of my all-time faves.  WRAL TV Station  and Weather Center was great, as well as performances at Carolina Theater, NC Symphony, and Carolina Ballet. I'm a fan of art museums, and the NC Museum of Art has a great children's program.  Airborne and Special Ops Museum in Fayetteville is fascinating for military buffs and the NC Zoo in Asheboro and Museum of Life and Science in Durham are both top notch.