Another mom here in our amazing group has taken the time to compile a spreadsheet with information on the Museums, National Parks, State Parks, Nature Centers, and Botanical gardens. Many of these wonderful resources are FREE.

Currently these would be reimbursable only, but we will be looking into options for purchasing tickets via direct pay with as many of the locations as possible. Currently none have options for direct pay though.

Only the first page, paid locations with tickets, are possible for milage reimbursement until we are able to confirm the approval of the others, because you will need to upload a receipt for tickets to the locations with the milage spreadsheet when claiming mileage or reimbursement for the tickets. Once a method for PROVING travel to the free locations properly we will have those added into the list.

But EVERYTHING on page one of this list is on the field trip approved list with the EFA now and a reimbursable trip.

Mileage for field trips comes out of the Field Trip/Extracurricular 25% cap, NOT the mileage 25% cap. So, keep this in mind when scheduling trips and balancing them with you plans for EC activities. (Travel to APPROVED extracurricular activities (even reimbursement only ones) goes in the travel reimbursement category not this one.)

Only the student ticket can be claimed UNLESS a family pass option is less than the student tickets. Otherwise, where each ticket is separate only student tickets can be reimbursed.

CLICK HERE to view the spreadsheet of approved locations.

To access a spreadsheet for calculating mileage and fees for field trips. This is meant to be submitted monthly at most with the receipts for the trips included. You choose MAKE A COPY to use the sheet. Fill in, ON THE MILAGE PAGE the round trip milage you traveled per trip. It will calculate the milage for you in each section then the totals are at the bottom. YOU MUST include the receipts from the dates.

PAGE TWO of the spreadsheet is for calculating tickets and entry fees for field trips. You need to make one of separate for each student. They need to be submitted with the receipts as well. My recommendation if the ticket cost is the same for multiple children is to input and put in child info then save it and change child info to save for the next child to get one reedy for each to submit.

These do need to be submitted as two separate reimbursement requests for auditing purposes. So on milage name the store MILEAGE and submit that only on ONE child per page requested. If the children rode together only ONE can claim the miles. Each child will then need their tickets and fees uploaded separate and those you can name the store FIELD TRIP COSTS.