Portland Nature Youth Camps & Outdoor School
Featured PDX Program
Family Open House
Aug 14 Come visit Trackers and meet our staff, tour our facilities, learn more about our programs and meet ofther Trackers families. There will be scheduled naturalist walks, music, traditional skills demonstrations and even a berry ice social. Learn more
After & Home School
Transported After School
We transport from school
We take our kids outside
We learn real skills
Home School Outdoors
1-4 days a week of traditional skills. Kids spend time out of doors fishing, learning homesteading arts, woodworking and even training theater arts.
Upcoming Break Programs
Visit & Learn More Trackers Family Open House Aug 14
Summer Nature Camps June-Sept 2010
Teen & Tween Summer Adventure Camps June-Sept 2010
Leadership Teen Outdoor Leadership Club Year Round
Upcoming After and Home School Programs
Transported After School Outdoors Program All week
Ages 4-5 Nature Adventures 1-3 days a week
Ages 6-13 Home School Outdoors Program 1-4 days a week
Improvisational Theater Saturdays
Theater Production Classes Saturdays
Woodworking for Kids Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays
Woodworking for Preteens Mondays or Tuesdays
Woodworking for Teens Date XX-Date XX Mondays or Thursdays
Popular Programs
Ways of the AncientsWe parnter with Audubon Society of Portland and explore the ancient arts of survival. Kids make their own bow and sleep in Teepees! |
Rangers Guild OvernightFor ages 8-13 Learn the survival and stealth arts of the Ranger. |
Wilders Guild OvernightFor ages 8-13 Like a little house on the prairie, live the homesteading arts of the Wilders Guild. |





We help children to feel like that group of kids wandering country backyards 50 years ago: independent, tired, muddy, wet and happy from the woods and wild. We are acutely aware of full and real hazards of the out of doors after years of working in environmental education. We try to move away from the highly structured and limiting tolerances of conventional environmental education while keeping kids truly safe but not encapsulated from, or phobic of nature. We are deep patriots to the value of offering guided yet very free and transparent experiences for kids. We believe it is okay to be thirsty at times, cold at times, and wet at times. It builds empathy and care for the gifts of life. It fosters adventure and sincere accomplishment. We also believe it is critical to feel supported and cared for as they truly explore their passion and responsibility. And through a healthy life immersed in nature, they test the limits and great potential of the often untapped physical and emotional resiliency they possess.
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