Can't get out of the house? Spring break is canceled? Family travel is one of our favorite activities.
These super cool webcams are giving us life while we're home and filling our need for travel with teens and tweens.
We're getting in loads of culture and art and even some nature from around the globe with the features on Google Earth and these other free online activities!
Check out these 60+ free virtual field trips you can take from your couch as a family!
Visit National Parks
- Acadia National Park
- Arches National Park
- Badlands National Park
Badlands National Park. Photo: NPS.
- Big Bend National Park
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
- Bruce Canyon National Park
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park
- Canyonlands National Park
- Channel Islands National Park
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park
- Death Valley National Park
- Denali National Park
- Dry Tortugas National Park
Dry Tortugas National Park. Photo: NPS.
- Everglades National Park
- Glacier National Park
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Grand Teton National Park
- Great Smoky Mountain National Park
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Photo: NPS.
- Kenai Fjords National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Mount Rainier National Park
- Olympic National Park
- Redwood National and State Parks
- Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park. Photo: NPS.
- Sequoia National Park
- Shenandoah National Park
- Virgin Islands National Park
- Wind Cave National Park
- Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park. Photo: NPS.
- Yosemite National Park
- Zion National Park
- Check out all the cool things you can explore with Arts and Culture with Google
Check out these 25 virtual day trips from StuffedSuitcase.com. She's got some great ideas for other virtual field trips for family travel!
Museum Tours
- Boston Children's Museum
- British Museum, London, virtual tour
- Colonial Williamsburg live tour
- Ellis Island virtual field trip
- Guggenheim, NY, street view of the spiral staircase
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, virtual tour
- Louvre, Paris, virtual tour
- MASP, São Paulo, virtual tour
- Musee d'Orsay, Paris, virtual gallery tour
- National Gallery of Art, DC, two online exhibits
- National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, virtual tour of 23 exhibit rooms
- National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, virtual tour
- Pergamon Museum, Berlin, virtual tour
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, street view tour
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, virtual tour
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence, gallery tour
Zoo and Aquarium Tours and Webcams
- Georgia Aquarium Beluga Whale Cam and Jellyfish, and Reef Cam
- National Aquarium Virtual Tour
- New England Aquarium’s virtual visits
- Ouwehand Park Polar Bear Cubs webcam – Rhenen, Netherlands
- Reid Park Zoo Lion Cam – Tuscon, AZ
- San Diego Zoo website
- Seattle Aquarium virtual tour
- Smithsonian’s National Zoo webcams
- Zoo Atlanta Panda Cams
Farm Tours
Free printable!
Download our 60 free virtual tours checklist to mark off how far you've “traveled.”
What are your favorite virtual tours? Comment below.
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Virtual field trips are such a great idea! These would be a lot of fun for my grandchildren. Thanks!
Hi, great list, I can’t wait to explore with my young granddaughters. I was surprised to see the Cuyahoga Falls National Park, it’s only a few miles from my house and we spend a lot of time there, thanks for including Ohio’s only national park !