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Prepare for Your Jeffers Petroglyphs Field Trip
Tips to prepare yourself, your students, and your chaperones for your field trip.
Before your visit
- Consider your group's accessibility needs and communicate these to our team at fieldtrips@mnhs.org.
- Discuss museum manners with your students
- Share visit schedules with the staff and chaperones.
- Assign students to specific chaperones. A ratio of one chaperone for every ten students is required.
- Ensure everyone has weather appropriate footwear and clothing. Students will spend the majority of their visit outside.
- Review confirmation materials for details on your visit, including schedule of events.
Directions and parking
Share directions and parking information with bus drivers and chaperones.
Jeffers Petroglyphs Directions & Parking.
Jeffers Petroglyphs is located three miles east of US Hwy 71 on Cottonwood Co. Rd. 10, and one mile south on Co. Rd 2 in southwest Minnesota.
Free bus and vehicle parking is available on site in our gravel parking lot.
Buses should follow the parking lot around the center island and park on the north side facing the highway.
When you arrive at Jeffers Petroglyphs
- A staff member will greet your group in the parking lot.
- Be prepared to give an accurate count of the number of students, school staff, and chaperones.
- You will then be directed into the visitor center where everyone will have time to use the restroom and get settled for a brief orientation.
- If you plan on having lunch on-site, you can either store lunches on the bus or in the Visitor Center.
Accessibility
Jeffers Petroglyphs welcomes all visitors and strives to make everyone’s visit a positive experience. Please let us know if your group has anyone with special accommodation needs. Email fieldtrips@mnhs.org to discuss your group’s access needs.
- Public restrooms in the Visitor Center include accessible stalls.
- American Sign Language interpreters are available with two weeks’ notice.
- All terrain wheelchairs are available on-site for use during your visit. First come, first serve.
Review the Jeffers Petroglyphs Field Trip Social Narrative to prepare your group.
Learn more about accessibility at Jeffers Petroglyphs.
Chaperone tips
- Ensure chaperones know their schedule, including arrival, departure and program times.
- Preview: Send them the link to the Jeffers Petroglyphs webpage to get them excited about their day and familiar with the building.
- Assign students to specific chaperones.
Chaperones are responsible for the conduct of the students they are accompanying. Students are required to remain with their chaperones at all times.
Jeffers Petroglyphs museum manners
- Walk and stay with your group to ensure everyone stays safe.
- Use indoor voices so everyone can hear and learn.
- Be respectful of staff, each other, your chaperones and other visitors.
- Turn cell-phones to vibrate or silent during the field trip.
- Keep all rocks, plants, critters where you see them.
- No photos of the carvings themselves, but photos of the landscape and one another are allowed.
Lunch
Water bottles are welcomed during the field trip. A water bottle filling station is available in the visitor center.
An onsite picnic shelter can comfortably accommodate seating for 30, but we are able to make room for more. Prior to lunch time, sack lunches can be left on the bus or stored in the visitor center. Snacks can be purchased in the gift shop.
Questions?
Please contact our staff at fieldtrips@mnhs.org or schedule an appointment. All booking requests must be submitted through our Request Form.