FALL OF 2025 – FREE FIELD TRIP OPPORTUNITY
Ney Nature Center will be hosting the We Are Water exhibit at our Education Building in Henderson, MN. As a part of this exhibit, funding is available to cover our field trip costs, allowing us to provide them for free. We are gauging the interest from schools and organizations to understand how many participants we should estimate for our budgeting process.
Available Field Trip Dates: September 2nd, 2025 – October 2nd, 2025 on weekdays between 8:30am-4pm
Field Trip Length: 2.5 hours (not including time for a lunch break – if needed)
Maximum Group Size: 100 (possibility to split larger groups into multiple visits!)
Description: Dive into water on this H2O centered visit to Ney Nature Center. Your group/s will rotate through 4 activities, all approximately 35 minutes long. Explore the We Are Water exhibit, go through a journey as a water droplet, learn about pond wildlife, and do a pond study.
Fill out this form ONLY if you would be interested in this field trip and could see this being a logistic possibility for your school or organization. Filling out this form DOES NOT guarantee that we will be able to host a field trip for your group.
Field Trips & Visits to Ney On-Site
The Nature Center’s staff organizes field trips to Ney for K-12 schools and homeschool co-ops, as well as 4-H groups, camps, and other youth programs. We also serve as an outdoor laboratory for area colleges and universities.
Adult learners! Ney Nature Center is a day-use learning center designed to serve people of all ages. Just because you aren’t in school anymore, that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun and learn at Ney! Whether you are looking for a group activity with your employees, a fun day trip with your friends from out of town, or you’re the coordinator for an assisted living facility, we can work with you to set up a visit!
Bring Ney to You with Off-Site Programs
We are happy to bring our programming to your location to present too! If you are looking for a presentation or activity for your club, 4H group, classroom, library, or more – we want to help. Browse the list of topics first to grab some inspiration, we can bring (almost) anything to you if you are within 90 minutes of our location.
Ready to bring Ney to you? Fill out our interest form!
To respect our staff member’s schedules, we ask that you contact us with a minimum of two weeks’ notice. However, we will still do our best to get your group out no matter the time frame. If you are requesting a program less than two weeks from your preferred date, please directly email info@neycenter.org.
“We always have a great time. Seriously, this place offers some of the best field trips! The activities are so interesting too. Our students are challenged to calculate and come to conclusions.” – Elementary school teacher
FAQs
What should I do if I have a question that you haven’t answered here?
Email us at info@neycenter.org or fill out our interest form and include your question at the end!