2025 Conference Field Trips

Sign up for the 2025 Field Trips when you register for CERF 2025. All field trips will take place on Sunday, 9 November. Please make sure you do not sign up for workshops or field trips with overlapping times. 

White Water Rafting - $91 per person (includes lunch) | 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM ET

Richmond is the only city in the United States where you can take on Class IV rapids right through downtown! The city sits right on a ‘fall line’ where the elevation drops 105 feet over the course of seven miles. Join us as we cross the fall line in a guided white water rafting trip from RVA Paddle Sports. This Trip will be approximately 4 hours including lunch and pass through popular rapids such as the Class I and II Choo Choo which passes under Richmond’s famous art deco train bridge and Class III-IV rapids like Hollywood and Pipeline where you can see the city skyline. Safety Equipment, paddles, wetsuits and guides will be provided.

Walking Tour of Jackson Ward - $20 per person | 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Gary L. Flowers provides a 20-stop, 1.5 mile walking tour of Historic Jackson Ward in the downtown section of his hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Tours include historic educational, economic, religious, and social institutions that inspired the name, “Black Wall Street, and “The Harlem of the South”, and served as an early model of Black Capitalism in the United States of America. Gary Flowers is an eighth-generation Virginian, and a fourth-generation Jackson Ward resident, dating back to his great-grandparents, who moved to The Ward in the 1890’s, and he remains highly active in the Jackson Ward community.

Plein Air Art - $45 per person | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET

Join local artist Tori Qualls on a 1.5 mile hike along the James River and explore plein air, the act of creating artwork outdoors. Participants will hike to Belle Isle, an island on the river and stop at two locations along the trail where Tori will guide the group through creating artworks of the local views. Art supplies are included in participant costs.