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Homeschool Discounts in Utah

Big-ticket Utah museums and attractions with homeschool discount days — typically 30–50% off for kids, sometimes free.

✓ Programs verified June 2026 · 13 confirmed programs · 2 call-to-confirm

Utah may be the best homeschool field-trip state in the West. The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium throws its doors open completely free on its annual Homeschool Day, the Natural History Museum of Utah cuts its $20.95 child admission to $4 every day of the year for registered homeschool families (plus one free Home Education Day each school year), and Thanksgiving Point — home of the Museum of Ancient Life's 60 mounted dinosaurs — runs quarterly Homeschool Days and an anytime Discovery Field Trip at $6 a head against gate prices near $27.

The pattern continues across the Wasatch Front and beyond: living-history days at This Is The Place Heritage Park and the American West Heritage Center, $5 guided tours at Lehi's hands-on Hutchings Museum, group rates at Tracy Aviary and Ogden's Union Station museums, and free docent tours for homeschool groups at two of the state's best art museums. Most programs ask for advance reservations and a homeschool affidavit or letter of intent — Utah venues check paperwork more often than most states, so bring a copy. Out in dinosaur country, Vernal's Dinosaur National Monument waives its entrance fee entirely for qualifying homeschool educational visits — a free look at a cliff of 1,500 Jurassic bones.

Confirmed homeschool pricing

Published price on the venue's own homeschool page — most under $20 per child.

Recurring
Annual day
Feb 26, 2026 — watch for next year's date
Free
per kid

Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

Draper · Register online in advance; registration closes 9pm the night before

Utah's biggest aquarium goes completely free for homeschool students on its annual Homeschool Day each February. Bring your Utah homeschool affidavit, letter of intent, or certificate of exemption for each child — only students on the paperwork get free entry, and one chaperone per five students rides along free.

Regular admission: ~$30 adult — 100% off for registered homeschool students
Homeschool page at livingplanetaquarium.org →
Year-round
Anytime
Plus one free Home Education Day each school year
$4
per kid · adult $7

Natural History Museum of Utah

Salt Lake City · PreK (3–4) through 12th grade · Advance request form; affidavit from your school district required

The state's flagship museum — four levels of Utah dinosaurs, Native Voices, and Great Salt Lake science in the copper-clad Rio Tinto Center — sells homeschool families $4 student and $7 teacher-parent tickets any day with an advance reservation. Each school year there's also one totally free Home Education Day; bring your letter of intent and arrive between 10am and 1pm.

Regular admission: $24.95 adult / $20.95 child — Roughly 80% off, every day of the year
Homeschool page at nhmu.utah.edu →
Recurring
Quarterly
Plus $6 Discovery Field Trips anytime
$6
per kid · adult $6

Thanksgiving Point

Lehi · Watch the events calendar for Homeschool Days; book Discovery Field Trips through the education office

Five world-class venues — the Museum of Ancient Life's 60 mounted dinosaurs, Ashton Gardens, Curiosity Farms, the Butterfly Biosphere, and the Museum of Natural Curiosity — and two homeschool routes in: quarterly Home/Online School Days at $6 a person with educator-led science activities, or the $6-per-head Discovery Field Trip, a two-hour self-guided visit designed specifically for homeschoolers and online schoolers.

Regular admission: $27 adult / $20 child at the gate — Roughly 75% off
Homeschool page at thanksgivingpoint.org →
Recurring
Annual day
May 22, 2026 — returns each spring
$13
per kid · adult $13

This Is The Place Heritage Park

Salt Lake City

The living-history village where Utah began — pioneer cabins, a blacksmith, train rides, a petting zoo, and pony rides below the This Is The Place Monument — runs an annual spring Homeschool Day with the full Experience Pass at $13 instead of $25. The monument and park grounds stay free year-round, and winter village admission drops to $9 for everyone.

Regular admission: $25 summer Experience Pass — About half off the summer village pass
Homeschool page at thisistheplace.org →
When
Oct 15 & Apr 30
10am–2pm Homeschool Field Trip Days
$6
per kid · adult $6

American West Heritage Center

Wellsville (Logan)

Cache Valley's 1820–1920 living-history farm runs dedicated Homeschool Field Trip Days twice a year at $6 a person — candle dipping, handcarts, cabin tours, and the corn maze in October; baby animal interactions and 1917 farmstead activities (plus the train) in late April. Regular grade-targeted field trips also book Tuesday–Friday in spring and fall at $3.50 per student per program.

Regular admission: $8 summer admission / festivals more — Bundled activities at less than festival prices
Homeschool page at awhc.org →
Year-round
Groups 15+
Book at least one week ahead
$5
per kid · adult $7

Tracy Aviary & Botanical Gardens

Salt Lake City · Group reservation request form, 1+ week ahead

Liberty Park's eight-acre aviary — pelicans, condors, flamingos, and a botanical garden setting — drops to $5 per child and $7 per adult chaperone for groups of 15 or more booked a week out, exactly the size a homeschool co-op fills. Smaller families can aim for summer Monday evenings instead, when in-person tickets fall to $5 after 5pm.

Regular admission: $14.95 adult / $10.95 child — Half off or better for a co-op group
Homeschool page at tracyaviary.org →
Year-round
Group bookings
Naturalist series registration opens Aug 3
$9
per kid · adult free

Stokes Nature Center

Logan · Email schools@logannature.org

Logan Canyon's nature center books private, naturalist-led homeschool programs — two hours of hands-on outdoor science aligned to Utah SEEd standards — for $9 a student with a 16-student minimum a co-op can easily fill (or a $144 flat fee if you can't). The center itself and its riverside trails are free on visitor days, Friday through Sunday.

Regular admission: Free nature center; programs are the value — Naturalist-led outdoor program for under $10
Homeschool page at logannature.org →
Year-round
Tue–Fri
Guided tours 1.5–2 hours
$5
per kid · adult $6

Hutchings Museum Institute

Lehi

Lehi's century-old hands-on museum — touchable fossils, Native American artifacts, pioneer relics, and live animal encounters — welcomes homeschool groups explicitly, with guided field-trip tours through four to seven museum areas at $5 per student, $6 per chaperone, teachers free. The guided rate beats regular admission and adds a docent.

Regular admission: $8 ages 13+ / $6 ages 3–12 — Guided tour for less than walk-in admission
Homeschool page at jhutchingsmuseum.com →
Year-round
Wed–Sat
11am–4pm
$2
per kid · adult $4

Ogden Union Station Museums

Ogden · Call the station to book; the online education page is being rebuilt

Four museums on one ticket in Ogden's 1924 depot — the Utah State Railroad Museum, Browning Firearms, Browning-Kimball classic cars, and the outdoor Eccles Rail Center's full-size locomotives — with a published group rate that drops kids to $2 and adults to $4. Summer RAMP Saturdays (June–August) are free for everyone, no group required.

Regular admission: $7 adult / $3 child — About 45% off regular admission
Homeschool page at ogdencity.gov →
Year-round
Mon–Fri
Book 2+ weeks ahead
Free
per kid · adult Free

Springville Museum of Art

Springville (Provo) · Tour request form, 2 weeks ahead

Utah's oldest art museum offers free, interactive 30-minute docent tours for public, private, and homeschool groups at every grade level — discussion-based, aligned to state visual arts standards, with a pre-visit packet sent ahead. The SenseABLE touch-and-feel tour option supports sensory learners. Ten minutes south of Provo.

Regular admission: Free (donations welcome) — Free docent tour + pre-visit activity packet
Homeschool page at smofa.org →
Year-round
Groups 10+
MOA Homeschool Tours on the school-year calendar
Free
per kid · adult Free

BYU Museum of Art

Provo · Tour request form; 801-422-1140 for questions

One of the best university art museums in the country runs free interactive tours led by trained Museum Educators for groups of ten or more — and schedules dedicated MOA Homeschool Tour events during the school year (watch the events calendar each fall). Costume tours for ages 6–12 add a dress-up angle for smaller groups of 6–12 kids.

Regular admission: Free — Free guided tour at one of Utah's best art museums
Homeschool page at moa.byu.edu →
Year-round
Any weekday
No reservation required
$12
per kid

George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park

Ogden

Ogden's outdoor dinosaur park keeps a dedicated homeschool welcome mat out: families can come any day with no reservation, work through fossil digs and the working paleo lab against core science standards, and ask for a guide-led tour at no extra charge. No discount on the $12 ticket, but weekday homeschool visits get the 8.5 acres of roaring dinosaurs nearly to themselves.

Regular admission: $12 all visitors / under 2 free — Free guided tour with admission
Homeschool page at dinosaurpark.org →
Year-round
Homeschool fee waiver
Apply 2+ weeks ahead with your curriculum
Free*
per kid

Dinosaur National Monument Academic Fee Waiver

Vernal (Jensen, ~20 mi east) · K–12 (under 16 always free) · Email the Academic Fee Waiver Request (with curriculum + state-requirement docs) to dino_fees@nps.gov at least 2 weeks ahead

Dinosaur National Monument's Quarry Exhibit Hall — a cliff face of roughly 1,500 Jurassic dinosaur bones you can walk up and touch — is one of the country's best paleontology field trips. Uniquely, the park's academic fee waiver names home schools as eligible: meet your state's homeschool requirements and apply with your course of study, and the entrance fee is waived. It takes paperwork and lead time, but kids under 16 already enter free.

Regular admission: $25/vehicle (or $15/person) — Entrance fee waived for approved homeschool educational visits
Note: Apply at least two weeks ahead by emailing the Academic Fee Waiver Request to dino_fees@nps.gov with your course of study; each vehicle needs a copy of the approved waiver. Free ranger-guided programs may be available as staffing allows.
Homeschool page at nps.gov →

Worth calling about

These venues run homeschool programs but don't publish pricing online. Call before you go.

When
School-year tours, Tue–Fri mornings
Call
no public price

Treehouse Children's Museum

Ogden

Ogden's literacy-themed children's museum offers its reduced school-tour rate to Home School groups — two-hour visits with directed theater, art, and storytelling activities plus exhibit time — but doesn't publish the group price online. Worth the call for co-ops with younger kids: regular child admission is $12, and the group rate has historically run well under half that.

Regular admission: $12 ages 2–12 / $6 ages 13+
How to reach them: Call 801-394-9663 or email treehouse@treehousemuseum.org. Reduced school rate explicitly covers Home School groups; 15-child minimum.
Homeschool page at treehousemuseum.org →
When
Field trips, groups 15–100
Call
no public price

Discovery Gateway Children's Museum

Salt Lake City

Salt Lake's downtown children's museum runs STEAM-guided field trips for groups of 15 to 100 with optional hands-on workshops, and its teacher resources are explicitly open to homeschool educators. Utah's iSEE fund covers public and charter schools only, so homeschool co-ops book as private groups — pricing comes with the booking form, not the website.

Regular admission: ~$15 general admission
How to reach them: Private-group field-trip pricing isn't posted — schedule through the field-trip form on the educators page.
Homeschool page at discoverygateway.org →

Gear up for your field trip

A few inexpensive things that turn a museum or nature day into a richer lesson — favorites from homeschooling families.

Kids' field journal
Sketch and note what they see at each stop
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Compact binoculars for kids
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Bug viewer & magnifier
Turn any nature trail into a science lesson
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Kids' sketchbook
Art-museum and outdoor sketching days
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Scavenger hunt cards
Keep little ones engaged on long visits
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Junior ranger activity book
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Provo

7 free or cheap
  • BYU Museum of ArtFree
  • BYU Bean Life Science MuseumFree
  • Springville Museum of ArtFree (donations welcome)
  • Timpanogos Cave National MonumentCave tours $12 (kids less) / Grounds free
  • BYU Museum of PaleontologyFree
  • Provo Pioneer Museum & VillageFree (donations welcome)
  • Provo City Library at Academy SquareFree
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St. George

9 free or cheap
  • Red Hills Desert GardenFree
  • Brigham Young Winter HomeFree
  • St. George TabernacleFree
  • Jacob Hamblin HomeFree
  • St. George Utah Temple Visitors' CenterFree
  • St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm$10 adults 18-69 / $9 seniors 70+ / $5 children 5-17 / Free age 4 & under
  • St. George Children's Museum$8.50 ages 3–17 / $7 adults / Free 2 & under
  • St. George Museum of ArtFree (donations welcome)
  • Sears Art MuseumFree
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Salt Lake City

10 free or cheap
  • Historic Temple SquareFree
  • Utah State CapitolFree
  • Cathedral of the MadeleineFree
  • Gilgal Sculpture GardenFree
  • Pioneer Memorial MuseumFree
  • Clark PlanetariumFree exhibits / $10 adults / $8 ages 3–12 for shows
  • Natural History Museum of Utah$24.95 adults / $20.95 ages 3–12 / Free 2 & under
  • This Is The Place Heritage ParkGrounds & monument free / Village $25 summer, $9 winter
  • Tracy Aviary & Botanical Gardens$14.95 adults / $10.95 ages 3–12 / $5 Monday evenings in summer
  • Wheeler Historic FarmFree entry / small fees for wagon rides & tours
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Ogden

8 free or cheap
  • Ogden Union Station Museums$7 adults / $3 ages 3–12 / Free under 3
  • George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park$12 / Free under 2
  • Treehouse Children's Museum$12 ages 2–12 / $6 ages 13+ / Free under 2
  • Hill Aerospace MuseumFree
  • Ogden Nature Center$8 adults / $5 ages 2–12 / Free under 2
  • Fort Buenaventura ParkFree to explore / $4 disc golf
  • Ogden Botanical GardensFree
  • Eccles Community Art CenterFree
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Lehi

3 free or cheap
  • Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life$24 adults / $17 ages 3–12 online / Free ages 2 & under
  • Ashton Gardens at Thanksgiving Point$24 adults / $17 ages 3–12 online / Free ages 2 & under
  • Hutchings Museum Institute$8 ages 13+ / $6 ages 3–12
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Logan

6 free or cheap
  • American West Heritage Center$8 ages 3+ (summer season)
  • Zootah at Willow Park$9 ages 12+ / $6 ages 2–11 / Infants free
  • Stokes Nature CenterFree
  • Logan TabernacleFree
  • Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of ArtFree ($5 suggested donation)
  • Cache Pioneer MuseumFree
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Vernal

6 free or cheap
  • Dinosaur National Monument — Quarry Exhibit Hall$25/vehicle (7-day) + $1 timed ticket
  • Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum$10 adults / $5 ages 6-12 / Free under 6
  • McConkie Ranch PetroglyphsFree (donation requested)
  • Red Fleet State Park$15/vehicle day-use
  • Museum of Uintah CountyFree
  • Flaming Gorge — Red Canyon Visitor Center & OverlookFree
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