Portland Nature Youth Camps & Outdoor School
Featured PDX Program
Holiday Party
The Trackers annual holiday party is an opportunity to eat great soup and wholesome cookies, drink mulled cider and meet both youth and adult program instructors. There will be kids yoga, music (live and acoustic), folks hanging out demonstrating traditional skills (such as flintknapping) and even a visit from Kris Kringle. Learn more about the holiday party
After School
Scout Team Marine Edge
Tweens & Teens Every Thursday After school meet us at the boats docks in Sellwood and paddle your school cares away in our traditional skin on frame kayaks and umiak.
Upcoming Preschool Programs
Trackers TOTS Nature Preschool Begins Feb 9
Upcoming Break Programs
Portland Schools Spring Break Camps March 22-26
Waldorf Schools Spring Break Camps April 5-8
Summer Nature Camps June-Sept 2010
Upcoming After School Programs
Transported Nature Skills After School Begins Feb 8 Mondays
Transported Homesteading After School Begins Feb 9 Tuesdays
Upcoming Home School Programs
Nature Skills Home School Begins Feb 8 Mondays
Homesteading Home School Begins Feb 9 Tuesdays
Upcoming Woodworking Programs
2 Sessions Woodworking for Kids Begins Feb 10 or 11
Woodworking for Teens Begins Feb 10
Woodworking for Preteens Begins Feb 11
Upcoming Family Programs
For Families Nature of the Village Famiy Camp July 19-23
Session 1 Family Bushcraft Basics March 27-28
Session 2 Family Bushcraft Basics July 10-11
Popular Programs
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Wilderness SurvivalTween Home School Every Tuesday Learn to light fires with no matches, make a bow and more. |
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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