Out-of-school learning environments have an important place in Social Studies course. One of the out-of-school learning environments is local history. The aim of this study is to reveal the views of students and teachers about the activities carried out within the scope of the local history trip in the 5th grade Social Studies course at the middle school. In the research, action research was used within the scope of qualitative methodology. The study group consisted of 17 students studying in the 5th Grade of a secondary school in Karabük province in the spring semester of the academic year 2016-2017. Data collection tools were diversified in line with the research content. In this context, structured interviews, work sheets and travel diaries were used. The data collected in the research were analyzed with the help of content analysis. As a result of the research, although it was suggested in the curriculum of Social Studies course and there were appropriate achievements in the program (MEB, 2005), it was revealed that students did not visit any of these places through school trip in their previous learning experiences. All of the students stated that they would definitely participate in the tour if there were such trips. Most of the students stated that the local history trip contributed to the persistence of information and to acquire new information on the subject area. The most important suggestion after the research is; the factors that hinder the teaching of Social Studies outside the school (local bureaucratic procedures, procedures, time constraints, etc.) should be minimized as much as possible.