Your School’s
DC Trip —
Built Around You.
Butler Travel designs custom Washington D.C. experiences for 8th graders at private Christian schools. Your curriculum. Your faith. Your students.
DC School Trips
Generic DC trips leave your students underwhelmed.
Most tour operators hand you a fixed itinerary built for any school, anywhere. No connection to your curriculum, your faith, or what makes your community unique. Your teachers spend weeks on logistics. Students come home saying “it was fine.”
- ✕Same itinerary as every other school that year
- ✕No connection to your faith values or curriculum
- ✕Planning burden falls on already-stretched teachers
- ✕Students forget the trip before summer ends
“Sound familiar? Most Christian school principals tell us the same thing — that past DC trips felt disconnected from everything their school stands for.”
That’s exactly the gap Butler Travel was built to close.
28 years making complicated travel simple.
Butler Travel was founded by missionaries who came home from the mission field and set out on a new mission — making stress-free group travel possible for the organizations and schools they loved. We know private Christian schools because we’ve served them for nearly three decades.
We don’t hand you a catalog. We build your school’s trip from scratch, handle every logistic, and make sure your teachers show up, with everything taken care of.
Start a Free ConsultationYour school. Your trip. Your students.
Every itinerary starts with a conversation about your school — not a brochure. Choose a focus to see what we’d build for you.
Built around your school’s spiritual mission
For schools where faith is the foundation — we weave DC’s spiritual history into every stop, connecting students to how faith shaped this nation.
- ✦Washington National Cathedral — architecture, prayer, history
- ✦National Archives — Declaration, Constitution, the founding covenant
- ✦Holocaust Museum — faith, courage, and moral responsibility
- ✦MLK Memorial — faith as the engine of justice
- ✦Evening devotional at Lincoln Memorial
Bring their textbooks to life
Every stop is chosen to deepen what students already learned in class — making Washington their living classroom.
- ✦National Archives — original founding documents
- ✦Smithsonian American History — curated by your curriculum
- ✦Arlington National Cemetery — sacrifice and remembrance
- ✦Library of Congress — America’s knowledge vault
- ✦Mount Vernon day excursion (optional)
Understand how democracy works
Students go behind the scenes of all three branches and see where their faith intersects with public life and civic responsibility.
- ✦U.S. Capitol — gallery visit + behind-scenes access
- ✦Supreme Court — justice and the Constitution
- ✦National Archives — the documents that govern us
- ✦Holocaust Museum — civic and moral responsibility
- ✦Optional: meeting with your Congressional representative
Where curiosity meets creation
For schools where science and God’s creation go hand-in-hand — students see how innovation and faith shaped America’s greatest discoveries.
- ✦Air & Space Museum — human flight and exploration
- ✦Natural History Museum — creation and stewardship
- ✦National Zoo — biology, conservation, creation care
- ✦National Building Museum — engineering and design
- ✦Optional: Georgetown University STEM campus tour
Three steps to a trip your students will never forget.
No lengthy forms, no sales pressure. A real conversation, a custom plan, and we handle the rest.
We Listen
Book a free 20-minute call. We ask about your school, your students, your curriculum, and your faith community. No pitch. No packages. Just questions.
We Build
Within a week we deliver a fully custom itinerary, per-student pricing, and a fundraising guide — designed around exactly what you told us.
You Lead
We handle every booking, hotel block, and day-of detail. Your teachers show up, with everything taken care of.
Don’t settle for a trip your students forget by summer.
✕ The Generic Trip
- Same itinerary as hundreds of other schools
- Teachers spend weeks handling logistics
- No connection to your curriculum or faith
- Students scroll their phones on the bus
- Parents wonder if it was worth the cost
- Forgotten before school starts again
✓ Your Butler Travel Trip
- Built around your school — no one else has this trip
- Teachers show up, with everything taken care of
- Every stop connects to what they’ve learned and believe
- Students are engaged, moved, and present
- Parents rave and the school board applauds
- A trip students still talk about years later
Ready to build your school’s custom DC trip?
Start with a free 20-minute discovery call. We’ll ask about your school, your students, and your vision — then deliver a complete custom proposal within a week.
No sales pressure. No packages. Just your trip, built around you.
📞(503) 879-5005 ✉info@butlertravel.comBook a Free Discovery Call
We’ll respond within one business day to schedule your call.
🔒 No spam, ever. We pray over every trip we plan.