Alwerdt's Gardens - 3238 E 800th Avenue, Altamont, IL 62411, 618/483-5798.  Hours:  April 15 to June 15: Monday through Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  June 16 to October 15: Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Botanical garden attached to garden center, All-American Display Gardens.
The Ballard Nature Center - 5253 E. US Hwy 40, Altamont, IL 62411; 618-483-6856. Youth group tours, Weekend and Evening programs, guided hikes. Environmental Education kits available for educators to borrow.;Open dawn to dusk daily
Ben Winter Museum - R.R. 1, Box 143, Altamont, IL  62411, 618/483-6665.  Hours: April 15 to June 15: Monday through Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.; June 16 to October 15: Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Call for admission information.  Full-scale and scale-model steam engines and other farm machinery, as well as other antiques.  Ride gasoline or steam train through orchard.

PLEASE NOTE:  It should go without saying, but HOUSE assumes absolutely no responsibility for anything that occurs while you are partaking of a field trip with your family.  In addition, please contact the site of your field trip before you go to verify that you have current information on hours, admission prices, and other details.  The field trip information herein has been gathered in an exhaustive search of the various counties and localities on the web.  The information is thus only as accurate and current as the information on the various web sites from which it was gathered.

If you have information about field trip possibilities in your area, please drop us an email at admin@illinoishouse.org and let us know about it, including the county name, so that we can review and possibly include it in our Field Trip Idea pages.  If you have a brochure about a field trip site that you would like to mail to us, please mail it to c/o P.O. Box 74, Ringwood, IL  60072

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