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 – 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 – A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM – GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL IN WINONA

Wednesday, July 22
10:30-7:30pm
Capacity: 25 minimum,  31 maximum
Cost: $130
Registration deadline: Monday, July 20
A  Midsummer Night’s Dream
by  WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE  DIRECTED BY DOUG SCHOLZ-CARLSON
“reason and love keep little company…”
One of Shakespeare’s most magical and popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has something new to offer everyone, even those who have seen it many times. Full of confused lovers, mischievous fairies, rulers and some “rude” mechanicals, this play takes us from the structure of Athens to the more free and mysterious forest where confusion reigns and anything can happen!
Midsummer will be directed by Doug Scholz-Carlson, the artistic director of the Great River Shakespeare Festival.

Production will be in the historic 1908 Masonic Building theater, newly acquired by the city of Winona.  Historic scenery from the era will be used.
*The cost of this trip Includes: bus, lecture on bus on trip down, play tickets, after the play light meal and conversation with actors, treats on bus on way home.
*NOTE: does not include lunch before the play
Trip Leaders: Bill & Char Carlson  507-645-9642 and Kim Reis  651-894-3946

Doug will be at FiftyNorth on Monday, June 1st at 10:30 a.m. to present early insight into this production.

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.