Real Skills, Daring Quests

Our Trackers Guides lead action-packed camps that build hands-on outdoor skills. Younger grades explore and learn new skills. Older grades take on greater challenges and pass what they know to younger students. Each camp is its own quest in our serialized Captain Nick adventure, with the Explorer Society on one side and the Contessa's Evil School for Gifted Girls on the other.

Choose Your Camp

Join Captain Nick's Explorer Society or the Contessa's Evil School for Gifted Girls. Each grade band has its own crew, mysteries, and daring missions.

Captain Nick's Explorer Society, Grade 1: Dinosaurs, Digs & Booby Traps. Take the Explorer Society pledge and join Captain Nick's youngest crew on your first expedition. Dig for dinosaur bones, follow treasure trails through the forest, build your explorer kit, and watch out for the Contessa's tricks.

Treasure Hunters, Grades 2–3: Dinosaurs, Booby Traps & Daring Escapes. Something strange has come through a rift, and the Contessa wants to find it first. Follow mysterious tracks to hidden dig sites, outsmart booby traps and clever decoys, decode secret messages, and make a daring escape with your crew.

Treasure Raiders, Grades 4–5: Lost Tombs, Deadly Traps & Rival Spies. Lost tombs, secret passages, and the Contessa's henchmen stand between your crew and a mysterious relic. Use tracking, navigation, fire, and shelter skills to reach the treasure first. And watch your fellow explorers. One of them may be a spy.

Contessa's Evil School for Gifted Girls, Grades 6–8: Heists, Gadgets & Brilliant Schemes. The Contessa has an island fortress and an army of henchmen who cannot follow a simple plan. She needs girls with better ideas. Invent gadgets, crack codes, set clever traps, and plot daring heists against the Explorer Society. The Contessa expects brilliance.

Two Free Captain Nick Graphic Novels

Start the adventure before camp. Register for any Treasure Hunters camp and we mail you two copies of Captain Nick: The Explorer Society, our full-length graphic novel. Follow Nick, Wren, Zeke, and the crew from the caves of the Yucatán to lost-in-time Dino Island and into the Contessa's secret fortress guarded by robot velociraptors. One copy is yours, the other is for a friend to join your crew. Watch the book trailer.

What You Do

Each Treasure Hunters camp brings a new mystery to solve. Depending on your team and grade, adventures include:

• Dig for dinosaur bones, discover artifacts, and investigate lost worlds
• Follow secret maps, track clues, and navigate forest trails
• Outsmart booby traps, solve puzzles, and decode messages
• Craft explorer gear, field tools, and ingenious gadgets
• Learn outdoor skills, from tracking to fire and shelter building
• Plan heists, uncover rival spies, and tackle missions as a crew