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Homeschool Discounts in Arkansas

Big-ticket Arkansas museums, science centers, zoos, and gardens with homeschool days and co-op field-trip rates — typically 30–50% off for kids, sometimes free.

Updated June 2026 · 7 confirmed programs · 2 call-to-confirm

Arkansas's homeschool deals cluster at the big museums, science centers, zoos, and gardens around Little Rock, Northwest Arkansas (Bentonville and Fayetteville), Fort Smith, Hot Springs, and Eureka Springs — most delivered through each venue's homeschool program or school field-trip rate. A co-op that gathers a 10-to-15-student minimum can book the Little Rock Zoo, the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, Garvan Woodland Gardens, and Fort Smith's U.S. Marshals Museum at roughly $5–$11 a student, well under gates that run $14–$35.

A few stops work for a single family, too: the Museum of Discovery runs monthly single-session Homeschool Series classes, Piggott's Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum books K-12 tours at just $5 a student, and the North Little Rock maritime museum puts kids aboard a WWII submarine for $6. Dates and exact rates shift each term, so confirm on each venue's own site before you go.

Confirmed homeschool pricing

Published price on the venue's own homeschool page — most under $20 per child.

Year-round
Homeschool Series + group field trips
Monthly classes (ages 7–12); co-ops 15+
$15
per kid · adult $15

Museum of Discovery

Little Rock · 7–12 (classes); all ages (field trips) · Register per class; field trips 2 weeks ahead

Little Rock's hands-on science center in the River Market runs a monthly Homeschool Series — single-session labs from starfish dissection to animation, built for ages 7–12 at $15 a student (members) or $25 (non-members), supplies included. A co-op of 15 can instead book the $11-per-student school field-trip rate. Daily science and Tesla-coil shows round out a visit.

Regular admission: $15 adult gate — $11–$15/student
Homeschool page at museumofdiscovery.org →
Year-round
Group field trips
Groups of 10+
$8
per kid · adult $8

Little Rock Zoo

Little Rock · All grades (3+) · Reserve 2+ weeks ahead

The Little Rock Zoo's grounds in War Memorial Park hold more than 500 animals across naturalistic habitats. A homeschool co-op of 10 books the group rate of $8 a person — well under the ~$15 gate — with free admission for chaperoning teachers and free bus parking. Discounted $2 train and carousel tokens sweeten the day.

Regular admission: ~$15 adult gate — $8/person vs. ~$15 gate
Homeschool page at littlerockzoo.com →
Year-round
School field trips
Groups; USS Razorback tour
$6
per kid · adult $6

Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum

North Little Rock · K-12 (5+ to board sub) · Schedule ahead

On the North Little Rock riverfront, students climb aboard the USS Razorback — one of the world's longest-serving submarines — and the Pearl Harbor tugboat USS Hoga. Group field trips run $6 a person, with free K-12 lesson plans and submarine scavenger hunts. The 14-foot ladder into the sub means kids must be 5 or older to board.

Regular admission: $12 adult / $6 child — $6/person group rate
Homeschool page at nlr.ar.gov →
Year-round
Group field trips
Groups of 10+
$8
per kid · adult $10

U.S. Marshals Museum

Fort Smith · K-12 · Submit a School Visit Request Form

Fort Smith's riverfront museum traces 230 years of the U.S. Marshals through five high-tech galleries, from frontier deputies like Bass Reeves to modern witness protection. Homeschool groups of 10 book at $8 a youth, and sponsor funding has underwritten field-trip tickets and buses. Museums for All brings SNAP families in at $2.50.

Regular admission: $15 adult / $10 student — $8/youth group rate
Homeschool page at marshalsmuseum.org →
Year-round
K-12 group tours
Monday–Saturday, on the hour
$5
per kid · adult $15

Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum

Piggott · K-12 · Reserve group tours ahead

In Piggott, northeast of Jonesboro, the restored 1930s Pfeiffer home and the barn studio where Ernest Hemingway wrote parts of A Farewell to Arms make a vivid literature-and-history stop. K-12 group tours run just $5 a student (one free chaperone per eight), walking students through Depression-era family life and the writing of an American classic.

Regular admission: $15 adult — $5/student K-12 groups
Homeschool page at hemingway.astate.edu →
Year-round
K-12 field trips
Self-guided to station programs
$3
per kid · adult $14

Botanical Garden of the Ozarks

Fayetteville · K-12 · Schedule ahead

Northwest Arkansas's botanical garden turns its 12 theme gardens into an outdoor classroom. Published field-trip rates start at just $2 a student self-guided and run $3–$8 for guided, station, and butterfly programs covering plant life cycles, pollinators, and Earth science. A homeschool co-op books easily and very cheaply.

Regular admission: $14 adult — $2–$8/student field trips
Homeschool page at bgozarks.org →
Year-round
School field trips
Groups of 10+, from 10am
$8
per kid · adult $17

Garvan Woodland Gardens

Hot Springs · All grades · Book with the education director

The University of Arkansas's 210-acre botanical garden on Lake Hamilton drops to $8 a student for school field trips — well under its $22 gate. Homeschool co-ops of 10 explore the Evans Children's Adventure Garden, the glass Anthony Chapel, and lakeside trails through nature journaling, pinecone math, and scavenger hunts, with a free pre-visit consultation to shape the day.

Regular admission: $22 adult — $8/student vs. $22 gate
Homeschool page at garvangardens.org →

Worth calling about

These venues run homeschool programs but don't publish pricing online. Call before you go.

When
Student field trips (groups of 6+)
Call
no public price

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge

Eureka Springs · All grades · Contact the refuge 2+ weeks ahead

America's largest big-cat sanctuary, seven miles south of Eureka Springs, rescues tigers, lions, and bears onto 459 wooded acres. Student field trips for groups of 6+ get a discounted rate on the guided tram tour, led by biology and zoology staff sharing each animal's rescue story — but the homeschool price isn't published, so contact the refuge to arrange it.

Regular admission: $35 adult / $25 child
How to reach them: Prescheduled educational groups of 6 or more get a discounted admission rate for a guided big-cat field trip, but the exact homeschool price isn't posted online — contact the refuge to schedule (two weeks ahead). The regular gate is steep at $35 adult / $25 child, so the group discount matters; tours are led by biology and zoology staff.
Homeschool page at turpentinecreek.org →
When
Homeschool field trips (Unfield Trips)
Call
no public price

Scott Family Amazeum

Bentonville · 2–14 · Book via the Unfield Trip / group form

Bentonville's hands-on children's museum near Crystal Bridges is a Northwest Arkansas homeschool staple — climbing canopy, water play, a chocolate-themed lab. Field-trip admission is free for homeschool students in Benton and Washington counties thanks to the Walmart Foundation; families from elsewhere pay the $17 gate. Confirm group rates and dates through the museum's Unfield Trip program.

Regular admission: $17 general
How to reach them: Field-trip admission is free for pre-K–12 homeschool students in Benton and Washington counties (funded by the Walmart Foundation); homeschool families from elsewhere pay the regular $17 admission, and the discounted group rate for 20+ isn't posted online. The branded multi-week Homeschool Adventures series is separate at $75–$95.
Homeschool page at amazeum.org →

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Hot Springs

6 free or cheap
  • Bathhouse Row Historic DistrictFree to walk
  • Fordyce Bathhouse Visitor CenterFree
  • Mid-America Science Museum$15 adults / $13 children / Free under 2
  • Mountain Valley Spring Water Visitor CenterFree
  • Gangster Museum of America$16 adults / $6 children 8-12 / Free under 8
  • Garvan Woodland Gardens$22 adults / $10 ages 4-12 / Free under 3
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Fayetteville

4 free or cheap
  • Botanical Garden of the Ozarks$14 adults / $7 children (under 3 free)
  • University of Arkansas Historic Campus (Old Main & Senior Walk)Free
  • Clinton House MuseumSmall admission fee
  • Prairie Grove Battlefield State ParkFree
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Bentonville

7 free or cheap
  • Crystal Bridges Museum of American ArtFree general admission (some special exhibitions ticketed)
  • The MomentaryFree general admission
  • Museum of Native American HistoryFree
  • Scott Family Amazeum$17 ($14 online) / Free under 2 / pay-what-you-wish Wed eve
  • Walmart MuseumFree
  • 21c Museum Hotel BentonvilleFree
  • Compton Gardens & ArboretumFree
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Eureka Springs

3 free or cheap
  • Thorncrown ChapelFree (donations welcome)
  • Eureka Springs Historical Museum$5
  • Blue Spring Heritage Center$17.75 adults / $9.75 kids 6-15 / Free under 5
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Fort Smith

7 free or cheap
  • Fort Smith National Historic SiteFree
  • U.S. Marshals Museum$15 adults / $10 students 5–college / Free under 5
  • Fort Smith Museum of History$10 adults / $6 children 6-15 / Free under 6
  • Fort Smith Regional Art MuseumFree
  • Janet Huckabee Arkansas River Valley Nature CenterFree
  • Chaffee Barbershop & Military MuseumFree
  • Fort Smith Trolley MuseumFree to visit / small fare for a trolley ride
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Jonesboro

4 free or cheap
  • Forrest L. Wood Crowley's Ridge Nature CenterFree
  • Arkansas State University MuseumFree
  • Bradbury Art MuseumFree
  • Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum & Educational Center$15 adults / $5 K-12 groups / Free under 5
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Little Rock

9 free or cheap
  • Little Rock Central High School NHSFree
  • Arkansas State CapitolFree
  • Old State House MuseumFree
  • MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military HistoryFree (donations welcome)
  • Arkansas Museum of Fine ArtsFree
  • Clinton Presidential Center$12 adults / $7 youth 6-17 / Free under 6
  • Museum of Discovery$15 adults / $13 children 12 & under / Free under 1
  • Historic Arkansas MuseumFree galleries (grounds tour ~$2.50)
  • Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature CenterFree
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