Portland Nature Youth Camps & Outdoor School
Featured PDX Program
Open House
March 27 Come visit Trackers and meet our staff, tour our facilities, learn more about our programs and meet ofther Trackers families. There will be kids yoga, music, and traditional skills demonstrations. Learn more
Home School
Ranching Home School
Every Monday the Wilder's Guild heads to the cabin in Sandy, Oregon to learn how mend fences, rope animals, tend to livestock, milk, make cheese and plant gardens.
Summer Camp
Build a Kayak of the Coast
August Spend 2-weeks on the Oregon Coast buildin your own traditional sea kayak along with harvesting food from the bounty of the sea.
Summer Camp
Ranger's Guild Overnight
Rangers are keen trackers and well versed in wilderness survival, bows and the ways of the animals. Train to be a ranger.
Summer Camp
Wilder's Guild Overnight
Wilder's hold a deep connection to the natural world. Through homestading arts they feed, clothe and shelter their family while taking care of the land they live. Live the life of Wilder.
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
Teen & Tween Summer Adventure Camps June-Sept 2010
Upcoming Preschool Programs
Forest Foxes Preschool Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays
Upcoming Home School Programs
Nature Skills Home School Mondays & Wednesdays
Homesteading Home School Tuesdays
Cabin Homesteading & Ranch Home School Mondays
Upcoming After School Programs
Transported Nature Skills After School Mondays & Wednesdays
Transported Homesteading After School Tuesdays
Upcoming Woodworking Programs
2 Sessions Woodworking for Kids
Woodworking for Teens
Woodworking for Preteens
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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Rangers HomeschoolHome School Every Monday Learn to light fires with no matches, make a bow and more. |
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Boating Spring BreakTweens Every Monday Take to the waterways of Portland in or traditional umia boat. |
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Wilderness SurvivalTeen Summer Camp The Tribe lets you create a village of living and sharing the gifts of the land. |
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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