SCHOOL & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Slide Ranch is a unique outdoor education facility. Our programs offer a rich coastal landscape where wildlands meet human habitation and agriculture. Students engage with our goats, sheep, chickens, organic garden, and beehives. Most programs include a farm-to-table activity where students harvest and prepare a healthy snack together. Slide Ranch Outdoor Instructors weave sustainable agriculture and honorable harvest into each of our hands-on programs while fostering wonder, curiosity, and student-centered exploration and discovery. Throughout our programs, we celebrate our interconnection with the land and our food systems.
All K-12 programming is aligned with Next Generation Science Content Standards. Learn more about our education programs and see a sample schedule.
We are currently accepting applications for the 2025-2026 School Year! Apply early for best consideration. Program dates fill quickly.
Generous scholarships are available! School and Community groups will be considered for needs and organizational mission-based scholarships based on information in your program application.
Scouts BSA and Girl Scouts! See below for the variety of badges a Slide Ranch program can fulfill.
Learn more about Slide Ranch before your visit!
Testimonials & slide show
Slide Ranch offers field trip programs in the spring (January - May) and fall (September - December). Questions? Email us!
Transportation
Transportation is an important consideration in planning your visit to Slide Ranch. Due to the rural (and beautiful) location of our site, public transportation is not available. Most commonly, and depending on resources available, groups travel to our site by car, vans, charter buses or school district buses. Slide Ranch staff are available to answer any questions you may have about transportation, and can share charter bus referrals and commonly used fundraising ideas with you. Slide Ranch may also provide a limited quantity of need-based scholarships toward the cost of transportation. For more information, please contact the program office at (415) 381-6155 or admin@slideranch.org.
There is a transportation grant available to Title I schools (40% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch) in grades PreK through 12. The grant provides up to $1,000 that can be used for transportation to programs within National Park lands.
The “Let’s Go!” Field Trip Fund offers transportation subsidies to high need, low-income schools and youth-serving organizations that support students in those schools. Schools and Organizations within the 9 Bay Area Counties are eligible to apply.
Philanthropic Ventures may also provide funding for transportation in specific Bay Area counties.
Please be in touch by phone or email with any questions or concerns: 415-381-6155 or admin@slideranch.org