Trips

FiftyNorth offers a variety of travel opportunities including theater, concerts, river cruises, museums, professional sports events and so much more! 

The Travel Committee plans, schedules, and escorts all events. Trip attendees are transported by charter bus to many delightful, insightful and entertaining venues. Past adventures have found us visiting many of the Twin Cities’ museums or theaters, taking historical tours of unique cities, or attending a Twins or Saints game. Occasionally, an overnight travel adventure is planned. Scholarships are available to help defray the cost for our more expensive adventures.

You may sign up for any of these trips online with credit card payment, or come into the Center and fill out a registration form, attach payment and put into registration slot behind the Reception Desk.  To sign up online, click on the name of the trip.

If you have ideas for a trip adventure for the Travel Committee to consider, please contact Michelle Brant at 664-3707.

Trip Policies

*Trip leaders are unable to provide assistance to anyone who has limited mobility or that uses a wheelchair. Please arrange to have a friend or PCA register & pay to accompany and assist you. If available, please indicate when you are registering if you need seating in a handicap section.

*In the event you have to cancel your trip registration after the registration deadline, you will not receive a refund, unless someone else is able to go in your place.

*If you are not on the bus within 10 minutes of the departure time on the return trip home, you will be responsible for finding your own transportation back to FiftyNorth.

TRIP – LANDMARK CENTER TOUR – SCHUBERT CLUB MUSIC MUSEUM TOUR- COURTROOM CONCERT

Thursday, April 30
8:00-4:00pm
Capacity: Minimum 20, Maximum 30
Cost: $75
Registration deadline: April 15

St. Paul’s historic Landmark Center, completed in 1902, originally served as the United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Custom House for the state of Minnesota. It was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke, who served as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1891–92. Learn about the Landmark Center building’s history, gangster connections, and restoration.
The Schubert Music Museum on the second floor of Landmark Center was fully redesigned in 2021 to provide even more inspiration, learning, fun and interactivity for visitors as they make their way through the galleries hearing and playing instruments from around the globe, either hands-on or through technology.
Lux String Quartet is a Twin-Cities based ensemble that brings a dynamic edge to performance. The members of this creative quartet contribute a wide spectrum of musical perspectives, and frequently collaborate with local and international artists. The group is committed to performing 20th and 21st-century repertoire, as well as works by living composers, including Twin Cities’ own David Evan Thomas and the Dean of Music at The Juilliard School, David Ludwig.
*We will stop at Cosetta to eat. Lunch will be on your own.
Trip Leader: Michelle Brant

TRIP – RUSSIAN MUSEUM OF ART & MILLENNIUM GARDENS

Tuesday, June 16
9:00-3:00pm
Capacity: 14 min / max
Cost: $35
           Lunch is on your own
Registration deadline: June 8
Please join us for a docent led tour of Cats and Dogs in Soviet Art: Workers, teachers, friends at the Russian Museum of Art.  These 40 works are on loan from museums and other private collectors.  Thirteen works have never been shown in an American museum. Painted by famous and lesser known artists of the Soviet Era, these many domesticated creatures and their caregivers of all ages are depicted adding to the communal life of a socialist collective.
Lunch will follow at Samarkand Restaurant, serving Minnesota’s only Uzbek cuisine.  Choose from many kebabs, traditional Uzbek dishes, shawarmas and salads.  *Lunch is not included in the price.

We will finish our day at Millennium Gardens at Plymouth Community Center.  This public park is known for its calming atmosphere, water garden with fountain, rose garden, and a butterfly garden with native plants.  A walking labyrinth and walking trails complete the garden.
Trip Leader: Laurie Brackee

TRIP – GUYS & DOLLS – CHANHASSEN DINNER THEATRE

Wednesday, June 24
10:00-4:30pm
Capacity: 20 minimum, 31 maximum
Cost: $131
Registration deadline: May 26
For the first time in over 35 years Chanhassen Dinner Theatres brings you a thrilling and electric staging of Guys and Dolls. From the gritty streets of New York to the colorful cafes of Havana, Guys and Dolls is a wildly entertaining musical comedy to delight audiences of all ages. This fresh production is set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City in a perfect balance of story, dance, music and romance!
*The cost Includes the bus, play, full meal and gratuity
Trip Leader: Norma Monroe

TRIP – MINNESOTA TWINS VS KANSAS CITY ROYALS

Thursday, July 30
10:30-5:00pm
Capacity: 20 minimum, 30 maximum
Cost: $95
Registration deadline: July 8    

Experience the Thrill of Pro Baseball!
Don’t miss rooting for the Minnesota Twins as they take on the Kansas City Royals! Feel the energy of the crowd, the crack of the bat, and the roar after every home run. It’s more than just a game; it’s a timeless American tradition, perfect for family fun or cheering with your FiftyNorth friends.
Concessions are on your own.
Trip Leader: Michelle Brant

TRIP – OVERNIGHT IN IOWA: FIELD OF DREAMS and VESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM

Thursday & Friday, August 6 & 7
Depart Thursday, August 6 at 05:30 a.m.
Return: Friday, August 7 at 08:30 p.m.

*Please register in-person or by calling the front desk 507-664-3700

*Description of Exhibits:
Earthmoving Legacy Center – The development of heavy equipment as Caterpillar
Fish Shack – Food by the Mississippi
Dyer-Botsford Doll Museum – 1,000 unique dolls
Dyersville’s Field of Dreams – Play on the field, meet the ghost players, visit the house
Baseball Hall of Dreams – Baseball History Museum – If You Build It Exhibit
Basilica of St Francis Xavier – Gothic Revival Architectural
Bily Clocks Museum & Antonin Dvorak Exhibit – Handcrafted moving clocks and organs
Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Church – Oldest Czech Catholic Church in US
Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum – Guided tours through themed displays – immigration, woodcarving, Rosemaling, tapestry, fine arts and others. Visit an International juried art exhibit focusing on Norwegian Immigration History, then visit Heritage Park site of a collection of 12 buildings, where the settlers lived and worked.
*When registering please specify how many people per room and who you will be rooming with.
Trip Leader: Norma Monroe
Capacity: 20 minimum, 26 maximum
Total costs per person–
The total cost of the trip depends on the number of people sharing a room. The fees listed below are for EACH ADULT in the room. The fee includes the cost of the bus, exhibit tickets, 1 coffee break, 1 breakfast.
*Not included: 2 lunches, 1 dinner and 3 coffee breaks
1 adult or single room………………… $458
2 adults per room……………………… $374 each
3 adults per room………………….….. $364 each
4 adults per room …………………….. $332 each
Registration deadline: June 29

Future Trips:

PLANNING IS IN THE WORKS FOR UPCOMING TRIPS:

Join the Travel Committee…

A group working together to have some fun.

Are you curious?

Do you like to learn new things?

Do you like to see something amazing?

Do you like to share a great restaurant with others?

Do you like to organize things?

I have enjoyed organizing adventures to…

• Plays at the Guthrie

• Bridges of Madison County

• Science Museum of Minnesota

• Ballet in Duluth

• Light show at the Arboretum

• Sleigh Rides

Being a member of the Travel Committee is like organizing a family outing only with your

friends at FiftyNorth. Come be a part of this adventure and share your ideas with us.

For more information contact Norma at (507) 273-0322.