SPREE Excursion Signup and FAQs

• 1st grade – 5th grade trips run from 9:30am – 1:00pm
• Kinder trips run from 9:30-12:30
• ECE trips run from 9:30-12:00
• If you have a Kinder or an ECE class and would like your trip to end earlier, please don’t hesitate to reach out to excursions@greenwayfoundation.org

• You can sign up for a large or small trip.
• Small Trips are up to 30 students.
• Large trips are for 31-60 students.

If you do not see the date you selected, that means another class has booked that date and it is no longer available. If you have any questions, please reach out to excursions@greenwayfoundation.org

Yes, we can! We can only teach up to 40 students in Spanish per day based on current staff limitations.

First, you will receive an automatic confirmation email from RegPack. If you don’t receive this email, that means your registration did not go through. Make sure your full profile is complete, including selecting your grade/park, trip size, excursion contact information, number of students, and any special considerations for your class.

3 weeks before your trip, you will receive an email from excursions@greenwayfoundation.org that gives an overview of the trip.

1 week before your trip, you will receive a more detailed trip overview email from excursions@greenwayfoundation.org, that includes what you should bring, and where the bus will go and where chaperones can park, and trip timing is confirmed.

All of this information is always available on our website, on the web page specific to the field trip.

Sometime in between booking your trip and the date of your trip, you will receive an invoice online. This invoice must be paid by the trip date.

We cannot accommodate 2 trips per day. We only have capacity for 1 trip per day.

On SPREE Field Trips, we can only guarantee instruction in English. We will do our best to accommodate Spanish classes, but are limited based on scheduling, and cannot guarantee Spanish instruction on any trip. If you are requesting instruction in Spanish, we must know ahead of time to schedule our staff accordingly. We are only able to accommodate up to 40 Spanish-speaking students per trip (the other 20 of a “large” trip may be English speaking). Additionally, our lessons use sheltered language instruction, to support any students who are English Language Learners. 

You will receive an email a few weeks before your trip with a detailed map, including the bus drop off and pick up locations. There is also information for each trip on our website, on the specific trip’s webpage.

Yes! We offer need-based scholarships for schools based on their percentage of students who receive free or reduced lunch. Please fill out our scholarship request form here to start this process. After you fill out the form, someone from the SPREE team will reach out to you.

SPREE Field Trips are priced as a flat rate, depending on the size of the trip. This system has been implemented to better represent our costs, as we need to maintain a certain teacher-to-student ratio. We are a nonprofit and are able to provide these trips at the current prices because of grants we receive. The Greenway Foundation has limited additional funding available that reduces the field trip fee for specific schools or school districts.  These funds are not guaranteed from year to year. Please fill out the application if you are interested in a scholarship for your SPREE field trip. We do not want cost to be a barrier to attending the trip and will work with you to make your SPREE excursion possible. 

Payment is due before your trip. You will be emailed an invoice based on the size of the trip you sign up for (Large or Small). You will be able to pay the invoice online with a credit card, send a check to our office at 1820 Platte St, Denver, CO 80202, or bring cash on the day of the field trip.

Student safety is our highest priority. At the same time, it is SPREE’s policy to not cancel field trips due to weather such as rain, snow, heat, or cold. The classroom teachers know what their students can handle best. Exceptions can be made for extreme weather. If there is active lightning in the area, a Flood Warning or a Flash Flood Watch, or other extreme weather events, SPREE will advise the trip to be cancelled. SPREE Excursion Leads carefully monitor the weather during the excursion, and will communicate closely with the teachers if extreme weather comes during the day.

If you cancel your field trip 14 days before your excursion, we can offer a refund. Otherwise, we are unable to do so, as we won’t be able to find a new school to fill your spot. If you can no longer make your registered trip date work, please reach out to excursions@greenwayfoundation.org as soon as you can, and we can try to reschedule your trip to a later date if our schedule allows.

Chaperones are free!

We recommend: 1 adult chaperone per 5 students on ECE, Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade trips.

1 adult chaperone per 10 students on 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade trips.

Email excursions@greenwayfoundation.org