Students will reinforce what they have learned in 8th Grade US History while they travel for 6 days and 5 nights to  Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Gettysburg, and Hershey Park.  It's a trip of a lifetime as they experience Arlington Cemetery, the Lincoln Memorial, Independence Hall, Gettysburg Military Park and so much more.

We celebrate the trip by having a blast at the award winning Hershey Park.

Saturday, June 20

4:00 am Meet at Lowell Middle School 

750 Foreman St Lowell, MI 49331

Students enter through main entrance and will meet their 

chaperone in the cafeteria. 

• Check in - Students only in the building, parents wait outside for space purposes

• PARENTS/GUARDIANS: PLEASE PARK IN THE SIDE PARKING AREA AND BACK LOT. BUSSES WILL PARK IN THE DROP OFF LANES IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL

• Meet your chaperones and load buses

4:30 am Depart for Gettysburg

12:00 pm lunch (provided - boxed lunch at the rest area)

5:00 pm Gettysburg Military Park Visitors Center Special after hours program.

• Cyclorama

• Movie:  A New Birth of Freedom

• Museum Walk Through

• Dinner in the Battlegrounds Cafe

• Battlefield Tour

Hotel:  Hilton Garden Inn, Gettysburg 717-334-2040

1061 York Rd. 

Gettysburg, Pa 17325

Sunday, June 21 

6:30 am Breakfast at hotel

7:30 am Depart for Philadelphia 

10:45 am Eastern State Penitentiary 2027 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19130

11:45 am Depart for Philly’s Gourmet Steaks for lunch

1:00 pm Depart for Independence Hall 1:40, 2:00, 2:20 timed tickets

• Ranger guided tour of Ind. Hall

• Liberty Bell Exhibit

• Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary Soldier

• Gift shopping at Independence Hall Visitors Center

3:00 pm Depart for the Constitution Center (3:15 Freedom Rising Presentation) 

4:30 pm Depart for our Double Decker Bus Ride 

(Double Deckers pick up at Constitution Center and drop off at Dave & Busters)

6:00 pm Dinner at Dave & Busters 325 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106

7:30 pm Depart for the hotel:  Holiday Inn 10000 Baltimore Ave. College Park

9:30 pm Approximate arrival at the hotel

Monday, June 22

6:30 am Breakfast at hotel

7:30 am Depart for Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery

• Changing of the Guard Ceremony

• Observe a Wreath Laying Ceremony

• Kennedy Graves

• Space Shuttle Memorials

• Arlington House

• Among others

11:30 am Depart for lunch at the Pentagon City Mall

12:30 pm Depart for the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

14390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy, Chantilly, VA 20151

3:00 pm Depart for the National Cathedral 4:00 timed tickets

5:00 pm Depart for dinner at the Reagan International Trade Center

6:00 pm White House Picture Stop (Monument side) 

Evening Monument Tour

• WWII, Vietnam, Korean, and Lincoln

8:30 pm Depart for the hotel,  Holiday Inn 10000 Baltimore Ave. College Park

 Tuesday, June 23  

7:00 am Breakfast

8:00 am Memorial Tour Jefferson, FDR, and MLK Jr.

10:30 am Depart for the US Capitol Building & Grounds 

Drop off at the Garfield Monument located on First St. and Maryland.

• Group Picture in front of the Capitol

• Library of Congress (outside view)

• Supreme Court (outside view)

• Lunch inside the Capitol - 12:30 Vouchers

• Capitol Building Tour (1:30 and 1:40 timed tickets)

 3:00 pm Depart for the Smithsonian Museums

Choices of:  Natural History Museum and American History Museum

5:00 pm Depart for Medieval Times Dinner Tournament and Theatre

7000 Arundel Mills Cir, Hanover, MD 21076

9:00 pm Hotel:  Holiday Inn, 10000 Baltimore Ave. College Park, MD

Wednesday, June 24  

8:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am Story presentation from Ms. Sheila Arnold  

10:30 am Depart for Hershey Park 100 Hersheypark Dr, Hershey, PA 17033

Hershey Park (lunch and dinner voucher included)

9:00 pm Park closes:  Meet outside of Chocolate World at 9:00 pm.

Depart for our hotel

Hotel:  Best Western Premier: The Central Hotel & Conference Center

800 E Park Drive Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17111 United States 

717-561-2800

Thursday, June 25  

6:00 am Breakfast at hotel

7:30 am Depart for home

12:00 pm Lunch at the Hilton Garden Inn 8971 Wilcox Drive, Twinsburg, OH 44087

6:30 p.m. Approximate arrival at Lowell Middle School

• Students will contact parents/guardians when we are about 30/45 minutes out from arrival.