Experiential learning through travel is an integral part of the Open School program. Travel provides an excellent learning opportunity in the real world and often proves to be a turning point in a student’s life. The objectives of the travel program include re-discovering the joy of learning, establishing trust in self, others, and the school community, creating ownership of school and one’s actions, and reaffirming self esteem.
Note: Throughout the Open School program trips are required. Required trips include: ELC and IA Advising Trips, Foundations Beginnings Trip, LEAP Trip, Wilderness Trip, and one additional extended trip at both the Foundations and Walkabout level.
2023-2024
- Belize Zoo Service Trip
- Bike Packing
- Boundary Waters
- Divided We Fall - Washington D.C.
- Fiber Arts Trip
- Flea, Fly, Flow - Moab, UT
- Foundations Leadership - Colorado Springs, CO
- France
- Gila Monsters Backpacking - Gila Wilderness, NM
- Landscape Painting - Northern New Mexico
- Marine Biology - Catalina Island, CA
- Miss Understood Trip - Moab, UT
- New York City
- Pine Ridge Service Trip
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Public Lands - Grand Junction, CO
- Space Camp - Cosmosphere in Kansas
- Total Eclipse Trip - San Antonio, TX
- Winter Hut Trip
2022-2023
- Backpacking Photography
- Borders Trip
- Boundary Waters
- Canyons - Utah
- Costa Rica Sustainability Trip
- Holocaust Class Trip - Washington D.C.
- Llamas
- Bentonville Mountain Bike Trip
- Oaxaca, Mexico
- Outdoor Watercolor - Northern New Mexico
- Surf Trip - California
- Pine Ridge Service Trip
- Pittsburgh
- Prairie Dog Trip - South Dakota
- Road Trip
- The Mars Project to The Great Sand Dunes
- Winter Hut Trip
2021-2022
- Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
- Boundary Waters
- Camp Amache
- Charm City - Baltimore Art & Culture
- Finding Bigfoot
- Let's Ride Mountain Bike Trip
- Outdoor Watercolor - Northern New Mexico
- Pine Ridge Service Trip
- Road Trippin - California
- Salem Witches - Massachusetts
- Salish Seas - San Juan Islands
- Serving Mama Earth
- Wild & Scenic Rivers - Big Bend National Park
- Winter Hut Trip
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
- Canyons Trip
- Marine Biology - Puerto Rico
- LA Art Trip - CA
- Salem's Witches - Salem, MA
- Archaeology - Four Corners
- Washington, D.C.
- Interview With The Vampire Trip - New Orleans, LA
- Immigration and Border Issues Trip
- Snow Science Trip - Leadville, CO
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Robotics Trip - Pleasanton, CA
- Watercolors Trip - Northern New Mexico
- Apples Trip - Paonia, CO
- Readers and Writers Retreat - Buena Vista, CO
- Lewis and Clark Trip - Bozeman, MT
- Boundary Waters
- Delta Paddle Trip - Alabama
- Pine Ridge Reservation Service Trip - South Dakota
2014-2015
- Archaeology - Four Corners
- Battle Bots - San Mateo, CA
- Bioneers - San Francisco, CA
- College Trip - Southern CO
- Fierce Females - Breckenridge, CO
- Germany
- Glacier National Park - Montana
- Outdoor Water Color Trip - New Mexico
- Reader Writer's Retreat - Fraser, CO
- Thespian Conference - Denver
- Treasure Hunters - Northern New Mexico
- Voting Rights Trip - Topeka, KS- Selma, AL
2013-2014
- Alaska
- Archaeology - Four Corners
- Bioneers - San Francisco, CA
- Boundary Waters
- Down River - Colorado River, Utah
- Estes Park - CO
- Glenwood Springs, CO
- Tallahassee, FL
- LA Art Trip
- New Orleans, LA
- Nicaragua
- Paris, France
- Pine Ride Reservation Service Trip - South Dakota
- Conspiracy Theory - San Luis Valley, New Mexico
- Sundance Film Festival - Utah
- Water Color Trip - New Mexico
- Winter Park, CO
2012-2013
- Archaeology - Four Corners
- Surf Trip - Dana Point, CA
- Mountain Biking Trip - Moab, UT
- Nola - New Orleans, LA
- Washington, D.C.
- Nicaragua
- Sundance Film Festival - Park City, UT
- Harvard - Cambridge, MA
- Marine Biology - Mexico
- Swap Science - Walden, CO
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Pine Ridge Reservation Service Trip - South Dakota
- Fierce Female - Breckenridge, CO
2011-2012
- Archaeology - Four Corners
- Bioneers - San Rafael,CA
- Outdoor Watercolors - Taos, NM
- Costa Rica and Nicaragua
- Tallahasee, Fl
- Civil Rights - Birmingham, AL
- Chicago Improv - Chicago, IL
- Belize
- Germany
- LA Art Trip - Los Angeles, CA
- Meditation Class - Crestone, CO
- Readers and Writers Retreat - Gardner, CO
- Pine Ride Reservation Service Trip - South Dakota
- Pirates, Poltergeist, Palm Trees - Key West, FL
- John Muir Trip - Yosemite/San Francisco, CA
2010-2011
- Surf Trip - Dana Point, CA
- Archaeology - Four Corners
- Yellowstone National Park
- Outdoor Watercolors - Northern New Mexico
- Lake Powell, UT
- Guatemala
- Tallahassee, FL
- NOLA - Now Orleans, LA
- NASA - Orlando, FL
- Sundance Film Fest - Park City, UT
- Pine Ridge Reservation Service Trip - South Dakota
- Puerto Rico
- Battle Bots - Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Ireland