Charlotte offers a wide variety of kids’ field trip venues for schools, daycares, and summer camps. Choosing the best venue depends on the type of field trip ideas you are considering. All 10 of these venues provide educational and learning opportunities while allowing the kids to have fun and enjoy their outing away from school.
1. Monster Mini Golf in Charlotte
Monster Mini Golf in Charlotte provides nonstop thrills and entertainment for kids of all ages. Kids enjoy the fully immersive environment of glow-in-the-dark mini golf with friendly animatronic monsters. Our monsters squeak, laugh, talk, and tell jokes.
Field trip groups are assigned one of our Masters of Entertainment, who keeps kids engaged, plays trivia games, and provides on-course challenges for cool surprises. We even have our own in-house DJ, and kids can request their favorite songs.
All field trip packages include 18 holes of mini golf with optional add-ons, including:
- Monstrous arcade: Kids can enjoy retro and modern video games while scoring tickets, which they can redeem for unique prizes in our prize redemption center.
- Mini bowling: Our mini bowling lanes incorporate our glow-in-the-dark lighting and feature an elevated lane, a small, lightweight ball, and mini pins.
- Laser maze: Kids can work together in teams or individually as they attempt to navigate through the lasers and reach the end of the maze in the shortest amount of time.
- Food and beverages: We offer different food and beverage options.
- Private VIP rooms: Enjoy a private Haunted Mansion room for exclusive access during your field trip.
2. Discovery Place Science
Discovery Place Science offers plenty of interactive exhibits, experiments, activities, and shows. There are distinct experiences for kids of all ages, including educational programming related to science, chemistry, physics, biology, robotics, nature, and astronomy.
3. The Schiele Museum
The Schiele Museum is a great place to see dinosaur fossils, American Indian artifacts, wildlife displays, and other interesting archaeology, entomology, mycology, and malacology exhibits and interactive displays. There is also a natural walking trail featuring huge mazes.
4. James H. Lynn Planetarium and Science Theater
The James H. Lynn Planetarium and Science Theater is one of the largest planetariums in the state. The Science Theater has specialized programming that covers more than just space. They also have fully digital displays ranging from history to biology. The planetarium is part of The Schiele Museum and can be included in a customized field trip or as a stand-alone field trip experience.
5. Zootastic Park
Zootastic Park provides access to a wide range of animals, including monkeys, sloths, lions, giraffes, lemurs, and tigers. Field trips feature an educational movie, access to the zoo, and access to the Petting Zoo. There are also optional wagon rides available.
6. Ray’s Splash Planet
Ray’s Splash Planet is an indoor waterpark with swimming pools, water play areas, and recreational activities. The facility operates year-round, which makes it a great kids’ field trip venue when you want to experience the excitement of a water park in winter.
7. AtomzLab
AtomzLab provides fun yet exciting science programs for field trips, including a variety of immersive activities and hands-on experiments. Kids can make slime, build rockets, mix potions, go on dinosaur digs, and more. You can tailor your field trip experience with different packages and options.
8. Urban Air
Urban Air is an indoor trampoline park with climbing walls, a huge tube play area, a ropes course, and a Sky Ryder attraction that allows you to soar overhead. Kids can also test their jumping skills at the Wipeout attraction, where they have to jump over a moving arm. Urban Air also offers dodgeball and a slam dunk zone.
9. Sea Life Charlotte-Concord
Sea Life Charlotte-Concord has North Carolina’s only ocean tunnel, which provides a 180-degree immersive experience. There are over 1,000 sea life creatures for kids to get up close with and learn more about. Kids can explore over 20 different exhibits featuring sharks, sea turtles, stingrays, seahorses, and more. Kids can also get hands-on in the Interactive Touchpool Experience.
10. Mission Grit
Mission Grit provides access to numerous field trip ideas, including interactive, hands-on science, problem-solving, teamwork, and physical fitness activities. There are seven different programs with 129 activity and exercise options to choose from to keep kids of all ages engaged.
Book Your Field Trip to Monster Mini Golf Today
Charlotte offers numerous kids’ field trip venues to choose from when planning your next field trip. We only touched on 10 of the best venues and field trip ideas in the area, and there are tons more.
When you are looking for memorable and affordable field trip ideas in Charlotte, Monster Mini Golf is the perfect venue. We help keep kids entertained while providing nonstop fun as they explore, problem-solve, and have a thrilling time in a safe, indoor environment. Book your field trip by contacting one of our field trip coordinators today. You are also invited to stop by our location for a tour and to plan your field trip in person.
