Gather 'round the fire for real skills, hot cocoa, and new friends! Join the Wilders Guild! Together we build our epic Winter Bonfire, the heart of camp for crafting, cooking, and community. Learn to safely and sustainably harvest firewood from the land, then turn it into flame. Sip cocoa by the fire, bake desserts over coals, craft with your crew, and share stories as the winter woods grow quiet. This is winter at its best.
Wilders Bonfire - Crafts, Campfires & Cocoa!
Winter is a time for warmth, togetherness, and cozy food and drink. In Wilders Bonfire, you step into the rhythm of the season. Gather wood from the forest, tend the hearth, and craft by the fire. Connect with friends in this fun, hands-on camp filled with woodland games, fire-baked desserts, and Wilders tales shared by a crackling campfire.
Find Your Wilders Adventure
Wilders Bonfire is a camp for crafts, adventure, and connection—with friends both new and old. Explore the following skills:
Campfire Crafting Use natural materials to make useful folk crafts beside our forest campfire. Carve, felt, and create with wood and fiber—making practical seasonal items to take home and share with family and friends.
Firecraft & Outdoor Cooking Learn to safely build our winter campfire. Learn about different fire structures for comfort and cooking. Harvest and split wood and cook snacks like flatbread and roasted apples over open flames.
Caretaking for Fire Ecology Discover how people have long used fire to care for the forest. Explore how seasonal burning supports healthy ecosystems, enriches soil, and reduces wildfire risks—even during the colder months.
What You Do
Get your hands dirty, taste the season, and create goods to take home. Every Wilders Bonfire camp includes:
- Harvest and split wood using hand tools like saws and bladed tools
- Build and tend cozy winter campfires as part of a team
- Make fire-cooked snacks like flatbread, cocoa, or roasted apples
- Carve simple projects using wood and natural materials
- Learn fire ignition methods: matches, ferro rods, and even fire by friction (Grades 4+)
- Explore how traditional fire use helps manage healthy forests
- Play team games that build coordination, creativity, and cooperation outdoors
For Grades 6–8: Bonfire Builders Older campers help create, build, and tend the bonfire itself, plus making fantastic foods and desserts through outdoor cooking.
Check-in at Trackers NE, Lloyd Center
2201 Lloyd Center, Portland. Find us at the entrance outside the top level, next to Marshalls. A Guide checks your student in by name and the crew gathers for the day's adventure.
The bus
Trackers buses and vans, trained Trackers drivers, Guides on board. Songs are sung and stories are told on the bus, and the Guides get the crew ready for a fun adventure.
Where the bus goes
We head out into nature and the wilderness: Camp Roslyn, our 341-acre site in Sandy, OR, and local parks and green spaces. Where the crew goes depends on the camp theme and the day; the Guide tells you at check-in.
Check-in at Trackers SE
4617 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland. Drop off at the Trackers Scout Pit, where a Guide checks your student in by name and the crew gathers for the day's adventure.
The bus
Trackers buses and vans, trained Trackers drivers, Guides on board. Songs are sung and stories are told on the bus, and the Guides get the crew ready for a fun adventure.
Where the bus goes
We head out into nature and the wilderness: Camp Roslyn, our 341-acre site in Sandy, OR, and local parks and green spaces. Where the crew goes depends on the camp theme and the day; the Guide tells you at check-in.
Check-in at Trackers West
330 SW Murray Blvd, Beaverton. Find us in the lower lot by the field. A Guide checks your student in by name and the crew gathers for the day's adventure.
The bus
Trackers buses and vans, trained Trackers drivers, Guides on board. Songs are sung and stories are told on the bus, and the Guides get the crew ready for a fun adventure.
Where the bus goes
We head out into nature and the wilderness: Camp Ireland, our forest, creek and tracking-field site in Hillsboro, and local parks and green spaces. Where the crew goes depends on the camp theme and the day; the Guide tells you at check-in.
Camp Roslyn is the drop-off and the field site
41401 SE Thomas Rd, Sandy, OR. Drop off right at Camp Roslyn, our 341-acre site of thick forest and open meadow in the Mt. Hood foothills, at the covered picnic pavilion. A Guide checks your student in by name and the crew heads straight into the forest. Pick-up is at the same pavilion.
Bus days
Most days the crew stays on the land. On certain bus days they board a Trackers bus or van, trained Trackers drivers, Guides on board, for water and other local nature. Songs are sung and stories are told on the way. Drop-off and pick-up stay at the pavilion; the Guide tells you at check-in when a bus day is coming.
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