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Top Student Destinations: Orlando
Whether it be a senior trip, graduation surprise, or a well-deserved “just because” school trip, Orlando will be a thrill-filled adventure for your student group. With a few of the world’s greatest theme parks all in one place, this trip is an especially good choice for adrenaline addicts, but there’s, even more, to offer…
Top Student Attractions: St. Louis
The Gateway to the West has many landmarks and sites that have brought it to fame — the 600-foot Gateway Arch, where travelers can ride to the top and see the Mississippi River below, Busch Stadium, where 11-time World Series champs, the Cardinals, call home, and one of the country’s best, totally free, outdoor zoos. But…
Top Student Destinations: Chicago
For the best of the Midwest, only one city can offer your student group many of the same sites and sounds like the East and West Coast big cities. As soon as you roll into the Windy City, stop by Cloud Gate (commonly known as “The Bean”) to see the city skyline reflected behind you…
The Lessons Travel Brings
At the base of all this world does wrong, you will find three things: prejudice, ignorance, and bigotry. This mind-set comes from allowing ourselves to be insular, lack empathy, and only become familiar with our small part of the world. If we could just get over this mind set we would realize how much greater our…
Top Student Destinations: New York City
What exactly makes a destination one of the most visited in the world? Some sites offer beautiful oceans, sprawling landscapes, natural wonders, rural adventures, and relaxing scenery. Only one destination, however, offers more sites and attractions per square mile than any other city, not to mention a one-of-a-kind melting pot of culture. For students who can’t…
Bunker Hill Monument
Bunker Hill Monument Sitting atop Breed’s Hill is the 221-foot granite obelisk erected to commemorate the fallen in the first major battle between the patriots and the British during the Revolutionary War on June 17, 1775. Though it was named the Battle of Bunker Hill, most of the fighting occurred on Breed’s Hill. While the…
Harvard University
Harvard University Located in Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard University is the oldest and also one of the most popular Ivy League universities in the country. Students will enjoy visiting this institution of learning as Harvard offers campus tours to prospective students and curious history buffs. Featured tours include the following: The Harvard Student-led Walking Tour, Group…
Top Art Museums in the Country
Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL Almost 2 million visitors a year enjoy collections from Impressionist and Post-Impressionist to modern and contemporary art housed in the second largest museum in the United States. More than 260,000 works of art fill the one-million-square-foot building on historic Michigan Avenue. Highlights include over 30 paintings by Claude…
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden In the heart of St. Louis, there lie 79 acres of landscaped tranquility at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The park has over 4,800 trees living within its manicured gardens and thousands of carefully chosen and sustained species of plant life from all over the globe. Walk or ride through the parks, stop…
Meramac Caverns
Meramac Caverns Student groups visiting the beautiful Meramec Valley, just an hour away from the famed St. Louis Arch, may be surprised to know Missouri – The Show-Me State – is also known as The Cave State, home to almost 6400 surveyed caves hidden throughout its rolling green hills, winding rivers and lush, fertile valleys….
Boston University
Boston University Boston University, an incredible academic resource, and the historical campus offers student group tours and information sessions to get better acquainted with the campus as a whole. During your visit, the group can see other city highlights such as the Freedom Trail, a two and a half-mile trail through sixteen of Boston’s most…
Fountain of Youth Archaeological
Fountain of Youth Archaeological No trip to historic St. Augustine would be complete without exploring Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park, the original site of the Nation’s oldest city, first surveyed by Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513 and settled by Pedro Menendez de Aviles in 1565- the oldest successful European settlement in…
