Your Impact

Road Scholar is celebrating 50 years of transformative learning. From our beginnings as Elderhostel to becoming the world’s leading educational travel organization for older adults, we want to honor the joy of lifelong learning, the power of community, and the supporters who make it all possible.

Watch and be inspired by the journey that continues to redefine aging through adventure, connection, and discovery.

Thanks to the generosity of Road Scholar supporters, life-changing experiences like our Civil Rights movement program are possible. Your support helps us bring participants face-to-face with history—walking in the footsteps of legends, hearing powerful first-person stories from unsung heroes, and gaining deeper understanding in sacred spaces like Dr. King’s church and the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

See how these journeys educate and inspire reflection, empathy, and action. Together, we’re keeping these critical stories alive for generations to come.

Road Scholar is committed to learning and exploring the varied experiences that make our world unique. You can journey deep into the ancestral homelands of the American Southwest on a transformative Road Scholar adventure guided by Native voices. Explore sacred sites with local Hopi and Navajo guides, visit ancient dwellings in Chaco Canyon, and experience the vibrant traditions of Native art, storytelling, and ceremony.

See how this immersive program offers a rare, intimate look at the rich histories, diverse cultures, and enduring legacies of the region’s Indigenous peoples — far beyond the typical tourist path.

Over the decades, we’ve studied what makes an unforgettable learning experience, and we’ve come to realize that people have widely individual styles of exploration. That’s why with your support we will continue to create new trips with different levels of structure, from detailed itineraries packed with learning experiences to lightly structured schedules with generous free time. Thanks to you, we can give older adults access to the most extraordinary people and places in the world.

See how Road Scholar’s Adventures Online programs offer students greater flexibility by bringing experts and educational experiences to their own homes:

Donors who establish scholarship funds find it to be a deeply meaningful way to pay tribute to someone special while also opening a door to learning for someone who could not otherwise participate in a program. Each year, Road Scholar awards more than 300 of these scholarships, in the form of Impact Grants, to enthusiastic lifelong learners. Supporters like you who endow a Scholarship ensure that others can enjoy the unique Road Scholar experiences they hold so dear.

See how Road Scholar’s Caregiver Grant gave Collette the hope she needed to heal and move forward after her husband passed away: