Overnights for Scouts and Groups
Overnights for Scouts and Groups are a great way to up the fun factor of an experience. Plus, some experiences need a little extra time.? Here we have rounded up places to take your scouts or group overnight.
If you are looking for a regular field trip check out our list of Group and Field Trip Opportunities. And, check out our Calendar of Events for information related to specific education days and events.
*Always independently verify times and prices
What kind of trip are you taking?
Historical
Nature, Outdoors, & Animals
Theatre & the Arts
Sports & Athletics
STEM
Historical
Battleship Texas:closed for extensive renovation- Boys and Girls ages 6 and up (separate sleeping quarters and bathrooms will be used)
- October – May $42 per person, June – Sept. $32 per person
- Includes breakfast Sunday morning
- Galveston Naval Museum $25-$60 per person
- Group minimum of 15; minimum age is 5 years old.
- Galveston Railroad Museum (via VRBO)
- Lone Star Flight Museum:
- $60 per youth (ages 7-18) and $50 per adult chaperone
- Includes, dinner, snack, and breakfast
- Siblings welcome, at least 5 years old
- Scout specific programming available
- $60 per youth (ages 7-18) and $50 per adult chaperone
- Newman’s Castle (Bellville, TX):
- Includes: A tour of the castle which includes a working drawbridge, moat, and trebuchet. A hot evening meal and breakfast.
- $45 per person
- Rosenberg Railroad Museum
- $55 per scout, $45 per adult
- Bring your own tent and gear.
- Dinner and breakfast supplied by RRM
- USS Lexington (Corpus Christi, TX)
- $75 per night, one and two day programs available
- For groups of at least 15; Males and females will be berthed separately. If you are a mom bringing boys or vice versa call them and sometimes accommodations can be made.
- Includes: overnight stay in crew quarters, two meals (dinner and breakfast), self-guided tour of LEX, planned activities on board and admission to the 3D MEGA Theater.
Nature, Outdoors, & Animals
- Downtown Aquarium Wild Dreams Overnight
- $70 per person (1 complimentary adult per 5 children); ages 6-14
- Includes snack, t-shirt, and breakfast
- $70 per person (1 complimentary adult per 5 children); ages 6-14
- Fossil Rim Wildlife Park (Glen Rose, TX)
- $105 per person (1 free chaperone per 10 campers); 5th grade and up
- Includes air-conditioned bunk rooms, dinner, and breakfast
- Houston Zoo Overnights:
- $75 per person; Capacity 80, minimum 20
- Includes snack, breakfast, guided hike, activities, animal meet & greet, early morning zoo tour, next-day admission, and a souvenir bracelet
- Moody Gardens Overnight Adventures (Galveston, TX)
- $1000 for up to 20 people, $50 per additional guest
- Includes dinner and breakfast
- $1000 for up to 20 people, $50 per additional guest
- Newman’s Castle (Bellville, TX)
- Includes dinner and breakfast
- Largely unstructured play, sleeping for more than 30 will be tight
- SeaWorld San Antonio Group Overnights
- $95 per participant, $65 per adult
- Includes Dinner, Breakfast, a T-shirt, a water bottle, and parking
- Note to scout groups: SeaWorld has its own Health & Activity Consent forms that will need to be completed by each family in addition to the required scout documents.
- $95 per participant, $65 per adult
Theatre & the Arts
Sports & Athletics
- Inspire Rock (Cypress or Spring)
- Around $40 per person
- Sugar Land Space Cowboys – Often early June – not offered every year
STEM
- Blackwood Educational Land Institute
- Multi-day and week-long programs
- Size 34, with an additional space for 40 cots.
- The curriculum can be customized for age-appropriateness and interest from farm work, to food cycles, to soil science.
Children’s Museum of Houston: suspended due to COVID-19- Limited options for specific communities
- Fourth grade girls from Houston-area schools are invited to a “sleepover” at the Museum. Junior League volunteers tour the girls through the Museum and facilitate activities alongside our talented Discovery Guides. Museum Overnight Adventures occur once a month during the school year on a Friday night, at no charge to the students or participating schools
- The Health Museum Girl Scout Overnights:
- January, February, April, May
- $50 per scout, $20 per chaperone, plus $10 dinner option,
- January, February, April, May
- Houston Museum of Natural Science:
- Periodically specific dates for scouts are released
- Private Overnight: M-Th $2600-2850 up to 40 people, additional people $65-95 each; Fridays $3100-3350 up to 40 people, additional people $75-105 each; Saturdays $3700-3950 up to 40 people, additional people $90-120 each.
- For a late night (as opposed to sleeping at the museum) you can book M-F starting at $900 for 30 people.
- Offshore Energy Center (Galveston, TX)
- Available on Fridays or Saturdays
- Ages 8-18, minimum 17 people; max 25
- $750 for up to 17 participants, $45 per person up to 25 participants
- Includes late night snack and continental breakfast.
- Space Center Houston Overnights:
- Military Families & Family Campouts – $69.95 per person
- First Lego League – $59.95 per person
- Scouts and American Heritage Girls – $69.95 per scout, $59.95 per adult
- Includes dinner, activities, breakfast, next day admission and a guided tour of NASA Johnson Space Center
