Tours & Retreats
Heritage Academy offers our scholars opportunities and experiences, outside of school hours, that help build character, learn new skills, and provide memories that will last a lifetime. These experiences are packaged into “Tours” and have been part of the Heritage Academy experience for the past 28 years.
Here are some tours that are currently offered for the 2025-2026 school year:
Fall 2025 Independence History and Constitutional Studies Tour
The “Independence Study Tour” takes high school scholars (11th and 12th-grade only) to numerous sites that are meaningful to our country’s historical foundation in Philadelphia and Washington DC. This tour is scheduled during the fall break of the 2025-2026 school year.
Tour Dates: October 5 -11, 2025
This tour is currently only open to scholars who will be in the 11th or 12th-grade during the 2025-2026 school year.
Check out the Independence Tour Information and Itinerary Sheet Fall 2025
Cost: $2,300, unless a scholar is eligible for an academic scholarship (see the tour information sheet above for scholarship details)
Tour Director: Tyler Bergeron (tyler.bergeron@heritageacademyaz.com)
High School Spring 2026 Fine Arts Retreat
Retreat Dates: January 2026
This event is only open to high school scholars (grades 9-12) currently enrolled in an advanced fine arts class or program.
More information will be available during the fall 2025 seemster
Cost: TBD
All payments must be coordinated via MySchoolBucks. Do NOT pay an invoice directly with ECA tax credit funds.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ECA TAX CREDIT OPTIONS, AND TO MAKE AN ECA TAX CREDIT DONATION CLICK HERE
How to use ECA TAX CREDIT, EXISTING SCHOLAR ACCOUNT CREDIT, or other options to PAY INVOICES
Tour Director: Christina Peoples, christina.peoples@heritageacademyaz.com
PREVIOUS YEARS’ TOURS, AND UPCOMING TOURS
Spring 2025 Puerto Rico Tour
Tour Dates: March 9-15, 2025
At this time, this tour is open 9th and 10th high school scholars only.
More information about this tour can be accessed by clicking the link below.
Puerto Rico Study Tour Information and Itinerary Sheet Spring 2025
A brief informational video touching on the highlights of the tour can be viewed here.
For more information please contact the Tour Director, Mrs. Sharon Lewis (see below for Mrs. Lewis’s contact info.)
All payments must coordinated be via MySchoolBucks. Do NOT pay an invoice directly with ECA tax credit funds.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ECA TAX CREDIT OPTIONS, AND TO MAKE AN ECA TAX CREDIT DONATION CLICK HERE
How to use ECA TAX CREDIT, EXISTING SCHOLAR ACCOUNT CREDIT, or other options to PAY INVOICES
Tour Director: Sharon Lewis (sharon.lewis@heritageacademyaz.com)
Spring 2023 Choir Tour
Tour Dates: March 16-19, 2023
This tour is open to all choir scholars and their families
Branson Tour Information and Itinerary Sheet Spring 2023
Cost: $1,155
To sign up for this tour, and for more information please contact the choir director, Dal Albretsen (see below for Mrs. Albretsen’s contact info.)
After you have signed up, you will be invoiced for the tour.
All payments must coordinated be via MySchoolBucks. Do NOT pay an invoice directly with ECA tax credit funds.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ECA TAX CREDIT OPTIONS, AND TO MAKE AN ECA TAX CREDIT DONATION CLICK HERE
How to use ECA TAX CREDIT, EXISTING SCHOLAR ACCOUNT CREDIT, or other options to PAY INVOICES
Tour Director: Dal Albretsen (dal.albretsen@heritageacademyaz.com)
Liberty Study Tour
In the same spirit as the Independence Tour, the “Liberty Study Tour” takes high school scholars (11th and 12th-grade only) to numerous sites that are meaningful to our country’s historical foundation in Massachusetts and New York. Typically this tour takes place in October each year. Our Gateway campus is next scheduled for the Liberty tour during the fall of the 2024-2025 school year.
Junior High Arizona Tour
Every spring, the 7th and 8th grade scholars are invited to attend the Jr. High Arizona Tour. This tour focuses on science and history in Arizona, and tour groups alternate between traveling to Southern Arizona and Northern Arizona. Itinerary destinations in northern Arizona may include the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Sunset Crater, the Grand Canyon, and Sedona. Destinations in southern Arizona may include the Queen Mine in Bisbee, the Pima Air and Space Museum, and Karchner Caverns.
Information about the next Jr. High Arizona Tour, which will take place in April 2023, will be forthcoming.
