Four Mile Historic Park is a great resource for educators and students when learning about Colorado’s rich history. Whether it is through a field trip experience at the Park or a traveling trunk in your classroom, our special programming dives into the subjects for cultural history, natural history and more! All programs are designed to meet select Colorado Academic Standards.
In response to changes in the 2020-2021 school year, we are offering our traditional field trips with safety modifications, as well as three other options: in-classroom visits, virtual visits and “museum-in-a-box”.
Schedule your program in a snap!
Here’s how:
1. Begin by narrowing down the dates that work best for your classroom schedule
2. Select a Program Option (Westward Ho! only available in the last weeks of April and all of May)
3. For our Pioneer Sampler program, choose the activities to take you on your journey to Colorado’s frontier,
4. Submit a Field Trip Request form or call 720-865-0814
Please note: A deposit will be required to book your program. For on-site programs, we require a 1:10 ratio of adults to students; these adults, as well as any providing one-on-one support to a student with disabilities, are free. Additional adults will be charged.
Schools where at least 50 percent of the students are eligible for the federal free and reduced lunch program qualify for scholarship funds to apply towards museum outreach programs. To request program funding assistance, please contact our education department for more information.
Click below for more information on our field trip offerings, including pricing and activity choices and descriptions.
Choose your own adventure! With this field trip, you can pick 3-5 (6 for groups of 100 or more) activities for a custom frontier experience. One-room schoolhouse lessons, daily farm chores, cooking over an open fire, panning for gold, making butter…and more!
Children will experience the adventures and hardships of covered wagon life in the 1860s. Classrooms will travel as a “family group” of pioneers to five activity stations. As the families encounter each activity they will need to work together to complete the activity and continue their journey to the West.
Six engaging activity stations will help your students appreciate the experience of the 700-mile/12-week pioneer journey across the midwestern and high desert plains. This program is offered only during the last two weeks of April and the entire month of May and fills up fast—reserve your spot now!
Bring 4MHP into your classroom or into your learners’ homes! Each of our four programs is available in three forms:
In-Classroom Visit, where a 4MHP educator comes to your school.
A Virtual Visit, where a 4MHP leads your students through the lesson via Zoom, Google Classroom or any platform your school uses. This can be done in a classroom or during remote learning, in the students’ homes.
Museum-in-a-Box, where we give you a complete lesson with activities that you can facilitate in the classroom or send to students who are learning remotely. Perfect for when internet connectivity is a problem.
Programs last 45-60 minutes, depending on grade level. In-Classroom Visits are available within the 6-county Denver Metro area. Virtual Visits and Museum-in-a-Box are available to any group, anywhere.
Reduced price options are available for Title-1 schools. Please contact education@fourmilehistoricpark.org for more information
With this living history experience, your students will take a trip back in time to the days of chalk, slates, and much stricter discipline in the one-room schoolhouse. Work through practical problems, arithmetic, tongue twisters, and more.
What was it like to live on a farm in 1859, the year Four Mile House was built? With our Homestead Trunk, will be able to compare the ways of our time to a much different era of washboards, candle-makers, buffalo chips, and much more.
We are working to redesign and improve this trunk — more details available soon!
Designed to reflect the diverse population of the state, this program explores the achievements and contributions women have made to Colorado history, from Mary Cawker and Millie Booth of Four Mile House up to the present day.