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Learn about adventure programs that are located in a wide variety of outdoor settings and offer lots of summer fun below.

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• Adirondack Leadership Expeditions

  Adirondack Leadership Expeditions is a character development wilderness program for troubled teens that promotes personal growth through a focus on insight-oriented experiences. The forested, mountain setting removes urban distractions and simplifies options to help students gain insight into their core values and accept responsibility for their choices. Our wilderness program's nurturing approach helps participants address personal issues, achieve success in a safe environment, and develop their leadership potential. Wilderness programs for troubled teens serve as excellent alternatives to boot camps because teens learn through natural consequences and positive peer relationships.

• Aspen Achievement Academy

  Located in Southern Utah, Aspen Achievement Academy is a flexible length of stay program for adolescents 13-17, emphasizing therapy, experiential learning and behavioral change. As one of the few licensed and accredited outdoor treatment programs, AAA has a decade of history in providing high impact professional staffed treatment to adolescents and their families. As a clinically based program , Aspen Achievement Academy is contracted with a number of insurance companies and EAP's to provide treatment for mental health and substance abuse.

• Outback Wilderness Program

  Outback's Wilderness Program for youth ages 13-17 blends the best of the "ancient cultural systems" with the most effective and proven therapeutic processes. Many of our students have been experiencing family conflict, been involved in negative peer groups, were isolating themselves, or were focusing excessive time on computers. Some have been struggling academically, have low self-esteem, may be abusive toward their parents and siblings, or may be experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Others are bright but underachieving. Your child will experience the highest standards of safety and therapy in the context of one of the most powerful settings for real change - the wilderness. Students can earn academic credit while in the program.

• Passages to Recovery

  Passages to Recovery is a nomadic wilderness program incorporating an innovative, holistic approach to a variety of issues including substance abuse, anxiety, depression, difficulties with relationships and others. We are a treatment and recovery program set in the wilderness. Passages to Recovery specializes in helping adults 18 to 50. The program offers a flexible length of stay with a minimum of 35 days. The program integrates the philosophy of the twelve steps with traditional therapy and the healing power of the wilderness.

• SUWS Adolescent Wilderness Program

  SUWS Adolescent specializes in helping struggling teens ages 14-17with behavioral and emotional problems. Operating in southern Idaho since 1981, SUWS has assisted young people with identifying and working through internal conflicts and emotional obstacles that have kept them from responding to parental efforts, schools, and treatment. These are children who are inherently good and have the ability to be successful, but because of unhealthy misperceptions about themselves, they have limited access to their own abilities and strengths. SUWS provides families with a safe and immediate intervention by utilizing its search and rescue metaphor, individualized treatment plans, and flexible length of stay. The outdoor environment and experiential learning help students recognize and build upon their own sense of self-worth as they learn the value of helping others.

• SUWS of the Carolinas

  SUWS of the Carolinas is a therapeutic wilderness program with a focus on clinical intervention and assessment. The program uses the wilderness setting to remove modern distractions, simplify choices, and teache valuable lessons. As a result, students begin to accept responsibility for personal decisions, address individual and family issues, and become invested in their own personal growth. Since 1981, SUWS programs have provided essential guidance and support to thousands of misdirected and at-risk adolescents. SUWS of the Carolinas specializes in the assessment and treatment of students ages 13-17.

• SUWS Youth Wilderness Program

  Working with the distinctive needs of 11-13 year olds, the minimum 28-day SUWS Youth Wilderness Program offers a highly structured environment that provides each child with a positive and rewarding learning experience. The concrete thinking inherent in this age group requires tangible learning experiences from which to build. Our base camp model provides safety, security and predictability. The program's high staff-to-student ratio and personalized treatment plans ensure emotional growth and increased awareness of self and others. Unique in that the Youth Program uses llamas in the therapeutic process, a child has the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in developing responsibility and care-giving skills. Twenty-eight day courses begin every week.

• Talisman Summer Camps

  Talisman summer programs offer camps for children ages 8 to 17 with LD, ADD and ADHD. Our unique summer camps offer much more than the typical summer adventure. We specialize in creating camps that offer not only adventure, but learning experiences, for children and teenagers with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism. From our Base Camp program where teens take part in hiking trips, swimming, rock climbing, and boating to our SIGHT program that allows children with Asperger's and high-functioning autism to enjoy the outdoors while building social skills, Talisman provides parents with unique alternatives to ordinary summer camps that cannot focus on their child's special needs.

• Adirondacks Adventures

  Adirondacks Adventures is a multi-skill adventure for campers ages 13-17 with ADHD, Aspergers Syndrome, or similar learning disorders. While exploring the Saranac Lake region of the ancient and beautiful Adirondack Mountains, participants will develop self confidence, self regulation, communication skills, and a sense of community. Over the course of the 3-week expedition, participants realize personal growth as they achieve together each of the challenges before them.

• Adventures Cross-Country

  Adventures Cross-Country offers adventure programs in a wide variety of outdoor settings. Students participate in multi-activity wilderness adventures in National Parks and Forests throughout North America, Central America and Australia and Europe.

• Beaver Camp

  The mission of Beaver Camp and Adirondack Mennonite Camping Association is to provide facilities and programs, infused by God's love, in which individuals of every age are invited to establish and grow in their relationships with Jesus Christ and others.

• Blue Ridge Adventure Camps

  Blue Ridge Adventure Camps provide safe outdoor experiences in which boys can learn about themselves and others, expand personal comfort zones with individual and group challenges, and have a blast doing it.

• Boys Ranch Alaska

  With open hearts and open minds and just a little bit of courage, Boys Ranch Alaska brings together your young men so they can see and know that they are not alone in the problems that they are facing. Being able to have the opportunity to help others will in turn help themselves.

• Broadreach Summer Adventures for Teenagers

  Broadreach offers experiential summer adventures for teenagers ages 13-18, including scuba, sailing, marine biology, academic and wilderness programs that span the globe.

• Camp Arowhon

  Camp Arowhon's mission is to give every camper a safe place, physically and emotionally; for children to learn activity skills and return home more confident; a camping experience rich with caring, learning and respect.

• Camp Augusta

  Camp Augusta's mission is to provide children a safe, fun-filled experience that will serve as a catalyst for personal growth and an appreciation of the outdoors. Their nurturing atmosphere is achieved by limiting our total number of campers per session, increased supervision, and a dedicated and caring staff.

• Camp Birch Trails

  Camp Birch Trails provides girls with opportunities to develop independence, confidence and leadership skills, to nurture positive values such as caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. Girls build lifelong skills at camp, while making new friends and special memories.

• Camp Birchwood

  The all-female environment at Birchwood provides growing girls with what they need more than ever these daysa safe, secure, accepting place where they can truly be themselves. Campers are able to cast aside societys expectations, popularity contests, and competitive stresses for a simple life filled with fun, giggles, games, playful moments, and fantastic friendships.

• Camp Hawthorne

  Camp Hawthorne's goals are to help campers grow into healthy, tolerant, and self-confident individuals, capable of living and working with others in a community setting while creating lasting relationships with their peers.

• Camp Lakeland

  Camp Lakeland strives to achieve an outstanding camping experience through challenging and fulfilling programs that encourage social growth and skill development. We allow each camper the opportunity to discover his or her own potential and build self esteem within a supportive Jewish Environment.

• Camp Lincoln and Camp Lake Hubert

  Camp Lincoln for Boys and Camp Lake Hubert for Girls offer two four week sessions at each camp for campers to experience a tradition of camping excellence.

• Camp Mowglis

  Mowglis provides a wholesome summer learning experience through which boys develop confidence, independence, personal resources, and a sense of responsibility towards others and the environment.

• Camp Nominingue

  Since 1925, Camp Nominingue has become widely known as a place where the spirit of real camping still exists and a place to cultivate friendships, self confidence and a sense of achievement; a place to learn new skills and take part in a wide variety of activities and outdoor games.

• Camp Temagami

  Camp Temagami offers a complete summer camp experience with focus on the art of traditional canoe travel that gives campers the opportunity to gain an understanding of the importance of a balanced lifestyle and an appreciation for the Canadian wilderness.

• Camp Voyageur

  Whether playing sports or fishing deep in the bush, Camp Voyageur fills summers with adventure, fun and friends set in a pristine wilderness.

• Colvig Silver Camps

  Colvig Silver Camps' mission is to facilitate the development of caring, thoughtful, and responsible human beings. Their philosophy is environmentally oriented and non-competitive, and our choice based format is designed to develop self-esteem, leadership skills, responsibility, and teamwork.

• Green River Preserve

  The Green River Preserve summer camp was founded with a mission and program designed specifically to meet the needs of bright young naturalists. All aspects of the camp are thoughtfully and deliberately adjusted to accomplish this objective.

• Gunflint Wilderness Camp

  Gunflint experiences make memories of a lifetime and build friendships that surpass the test of time. Every situation at Gunflint, whether amusing or challenging, is an opportunity for campers to improve themselves as individuals, and to improve themselves as a group.

• Howling Wolf Adventures

  Howling Wolf Adventures, specializes in teen adventure camps, where campers participate in exciting wilderness activities, learn first aid skills in a wilderness setting and develop leadership skills.

• Langskib and Excalibur for Boys

  Langskib and Excalibur programs believe in teaching young men how to be with the land, the water and the sky, how to be with one another, and ultimately how to be with themselves.

• Moondance Adventures

  Moondance is a wilderness-based adventure program that offers young people a variety of carefully designed, safe and supportive outdoor expeditions. Their programs provide an unforgettable journey into the backcountry of some of the world's most beautiful and pristine wilderness areas.

• Nawa Academy

  At Nawa Academy growth is facilitated through blending fun, challenge and excitement with learning. Students are often amazed by how much they have accomplished and grown through their experience.

• Northwaters Wilderness Programs

  Northwaters authentic wilderness adventures have earned us international recognition for their experiential programming and for the development of outstanding young leaders.

• Paddlefoot

  Paddlefoot's canoe trips expand on one of the best elements of traditional summer camp. In a small group setting, young people face fewer peer pressures. Trippers are encouraged to contribute individual abilities to our traveling community on trip.

• Roaring Brook Camp

  For more than forty years, Roaring Brook Camp has been devoted to teaching outdoor skills and adventure sports, Vermont crafts and conducting expeditions in Northern New England by backpack and canoe.

• Sailwood Adventures

  Sailwood Adventures is located within the dramatic surroundings of Sadie Cove, an enchanting, natural gem with vibrant green slopes that leap from the high tide line, daring adventurers into magical alpine regions. Beaches also make delightful places to explore and relax, while soaking up the natural beauty.

• Sidwell Summer

  Each Sidwell Summer program strives to instill feelings of self-worth and confidence in every camper and to encourage cooperation and consideration of others by celebrating diversity and believing in the unique worth of each individual.

• Summer Youth Adventures

  Summer Youth Adventures offers participants a wonderful opportunity to experience the wilderness like never before, make lifelong friends, and have a summer they'll never forget.

• Swift Nature Camp

  Swift Nature Camp strives to preserve and teach environmental awareness. The camp offers a fun program with a nature focus.

• TASC Canadian Wilderness Fishing Camps

  TASC conducts Canadian Wilderness Fishing Camps between Sudbury and Timmins, Ontario, 27 miles north of the small village of Gogama. The region is internationally known for its fishing and scenery.

• The Leading Edge at the High Mountain Institute

  The Leading Edge at the High Mountain Institute is an introduction to leadership for extraordinary high school students.

• The Orme Summer Ranch Camp

  A summer at Orme is a life changing experience. Beyond a summer of fun, Orme offers friendships and growth that last a lifetime!

• Wanapitei

  Wanapitei's camp programs focus on the development of individuals in a team setting. Children and teens are challenged in a supportive environment both at camp and on trip.

• Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing

  Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing lays a foundation for individuals to grow in character through fun and exciting adventure activities in an all-outdoor environment.

• Wildwood

  Wildwood is a multidimensional summer program where friendships are formed and respect for the environment is forged. Campers arrive curious about nature and leave committed to the preservation of our natural resources.

• Williwaw Adventures

  Williwaw has been creating unique adventures for young adults since 1999. Their expeditions are designed to provide a safe and meaningful wilderness experience that balance challenging adventure and exploration with fun. They spend time developing outdoor skills, but also focus on the group experience and personal growth as students develop confidence, self-reliance and a sense of personal responsibility.

• Windsor Mountain International Summer Camp

  Windsor Mountain International Summer Camp is a caring, creative community and the first international summer camp affiliated with the United Nations, with programs and activities help campers explore aspects of being a responsible citizen of the world.

• Wolf Ridge

  Wolf Ridge offers a variety of programs for kids ages 9 to 18 including overnight camps, day camp, arts programs, leadership training, and wilderness trips.