Our Field Trips are designed to get kids moving and learning with their whole body. With 4 interactive stations making up our field trip, your visit will get you experiencing a working ranch and learning about various aspects of our great outdoors. From touching various animals on the ranch to feeding the cattle, to learning the "why" behind some animal and plant behaviors, as well as providing a play area complete with a giant gunny sack slide. We strive to offer an experience that leaves our guests enriched, intrigued and hopefully revived from some quality time in the great Central Oregon outdoors.
Spring 2023 Field Trip Hours:
Tuesday- Friday 10:00 am -12:15 pm.
May 16th -June 16th 2023
Individual groups (of 30 or less in each group), rotate through the four stations in the 2 -plus hours of the field trip.
Each field trip session can accomodate 4 groups.
(If tickets still remain in the group you registered in, individuals from different parties may register in the same group.)
At the end of our visit, students can take home a honey straw.
Adults not wishing to go on the hayride are not charged to attend the field trip with their child(ren). For parents not going on the hayride, they do not need to have a ticket to attend. No Hayride=No Charge $ =No Ticket Needed.
*If you have fewer than 10 paying children in your group, please sign up in a session that already has visitors attending. It is not financially sustainable for DD Ranch to operate a field trip with fewer than 10 children. DD Ranch reserves the right to contact you and reschedule your visit to a date that is already established with a field trip. However, we can not guarantee that we will always be able to accommodate your group when needing to reschedule, due to days and time slots getting sold out.
When you schedule your booking, you are booking in groups that we have labeled as Tractor, Rancher, Cows and Honey Bees. These are identifying images that we use to organize our groups.
*We cannot honor the Pay at Time of visit option we had last season. Our scheduling system is a Pay at Time of Registration system. It became too difficult to keep track of who paid and to track down payments not made at the time of visit. Please accept our apologies for any inconviences this may cause. We have a 100% refund on tickets if the cancellation is made 72 hours prior to your event. Contact Julie Larson at julie@ddranch to inform her of your cancellations needs. Include your name, organization, date of visit, type of tickets and number of those tickets needing to be refunded.
When you arrive at the ranch:
It is a short walk from the Bus Parking-Loading area as well as Auto Parking Field. Please plan to haul your items from your parking area to the gathering area in front of the barn. It is rustic and we have dirt roads that can be wet or rutted during inclement weather. Groups have found that individual backpacks, collapsable wagons as well as rolling baskets have been very handy. We have Red Wagon wagons and wheel barrows available for you to transport items. However, for afternoon field trips during the Fall Pumpkin Patch Season, wagons and wheel barrows can sometimes be hard to come by.
Special Accommodations with Booking Your Visit
In past years, we've been able to work individually with organizations to coordinate bookings with similar age groups. DD Ranch recognizes that this scheduling app does not allow for that type of fine tuning in its booking ability. We also recognize that preschoolers in the kids korral with 5th graders can be a recipe for disaster. Please contact Julie Larson, Education Coordinator, and we can do our best to find a time slot and age group similar to the one you are hoping to book.
**Due to rising costs and inflation, DD Ranch is in a position that it must raise its prices in order to continue to provide services and products to our customers. Thank you for understanding
DD Ranch Field Trip, 3836 NE Smith Rock Way, Terrebonne, OR 97760