Alton Museum of History and Art -2809 College Avenue, Alton, IL 62002, 618/462-2763.  Hours: Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Call for admission information.  Local history, including Alton's role during the Civil Ware.
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site - Collinsville Road, Collinsville, IL (mailing address: 30 Ramey Street, Collinsville, IL 62234),  618/346-5160.  Open daily 8:00 a.m. to dusk.  Interpretive Center Hours: daily 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Both are closed New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President's Day, Veteran's Day, General Election Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.  Admission: free, but suggested donations are adult/$2; child/$1.  All lectures are free, but some workshops have materials fees.  Guided tours, self-guided tours, special programs and events, and other opportunities.  See web site or call for details.
Glen Carbon Historical Museum - 124 School Street, Upper Floor, Glen Carbon, IL  62034,  618/288-1549.  Hours: Wednesday noon to 4:00 p.m. or by appointment.  Call for admission information.  Local area history, including archaeological information.
Horseshoe Lake State Park - 3321 Highway 111, Granite City, IL  60240, 618/931-0270.  Hiking, camping, picnicking, and other outdoor activities.  Call for hours and admission information.
World's Largest Catsup Bottle Official Web Site - 800 South Morrison Avenue, Collinsville, IL  62234 (WLCB Fan Club Office, P.O. Box 1108, Collinsville, Illinois 62234, 618/345-5598.  Restored landmark water tower at the former Brooks Catsup plant.
Watershed Nature Center - P.O. Box 843, Edwardsville, IL 62025, 6188/692-7578.  Call for exact location and hours/admission information.

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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