For 100 years, Girl Scout camp has been the leader in summer fun and adventure for girls at an affordable cost. We have 3-day to 12-day overnight camp sessions at five beautiful mountain properties and day camps all over the state. You don’t have to already be a Girl Scout – in fact, new campers get a discount! Transportation to some overnight camps available. Registration starts March 6. Visit girlscoutsofcolorado.org or call 1-877-404-5708.

Day camp

For 100 years, Girl Scout camp has been the leader in summer fun and adventure for girls. Going to Girl Scout camp can be a life-changing experience. It’s a place where girls stretch their limits and have fun in the great outdoors. There’s no better place for girls to grow as leaders than at Girl Scout camp. We have affordable day camp programs for all girls ages 6-17. You don’t have to already be a Girl Scout to join the fun. Special discounts are available for first-time campers, even those who participate in other Girl Scout activities. Each camp program is geared to the girls’ age and gives girls the unique Girl Scout Leadership Experience. You could become a digital photographer; make African tribal masks; learn the art of improv; explore the fantasy and Victorian style of steam punk; learn how to windsurf; or choose from many other themed sessions. Most camp sessions are five days per week from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Prices start at $105 and registration opens March 6. Day camps are made possible by dedicated volunteers and staff members throughout the state. If you are interested in volunteering this summer (and earning a free week at day camp for one daughter), call Kim Petau at 303-607-4647. For more, go to girlscoutsofcolorado.org.

Overnight camps

For 100 years, Girl Scout camp has been the leader in summer fun and adventure for girls at an affordable cost. We have overnight camps at even more beautiful mountain properties this year. You don’t have to already be a Girl Scout -- all new campers will receive a 10 percent discount for trying out Girl Scout camp! Going to Girl Scout camp can be a life-changing experience for girls. It’s a place where girls stretch their limits and have fun in the great outdoors. There’s no better place for girls to grow as leaders than at Girl Scout camp. Scale the rope course, fly on the zip-line, learn to ride a horse, discover the fun of science, go on a digital scavenger hunt and make friends with girls from near and far. Girls gain confidence at camp. Don’t be surprised if a girl arrives at Girl Scout camp unsure of herself and comes home with soaring confidence after she pushes her limits on the challenge course, plans a camp-wide celebration or reaches the top of a rock wall. Overnight sessions feature a wide range of facilities and activities: Lazy Acres, in the San Isabel National Forest; Meadow Mountain Ranch, in Rocky Mountain National Park; Magic Sky Ranch, northwest of Fort Collins near Red Feather Lakes; Sky High Ranch, near Woodland Park, west of Colorado Springs; and Tomahawk Ranch, one hour southwest of Denver. Transportation is available for certain sessions this summer for a $75 roundtrip fee. Sessions range from 3 days to 12 days and camp programs are available for girls ages 6 to 17. Prices start at $265. Registration opens March 6, and spots in our popular camps fill quickly. Visit girlscoutsofcolorado.org or call 1-877-404-5708.

"I had such an amazing time. I don't think my friends will quite believe me or grasp the immensity of my experience." Baldwin, Little Rock, Arkansas

Inspiring journeys for young adults in the American Southwest and Costa Rica. A mature and experienced staff (average age of 28) lead small groups of 12 students on a series of expeditions into the rugged and beautiful landscapes of the canyons, rivers, and mountains of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and the rain forests, beaches, and rural villages of Costa Rica. Deer Hill's 4:1 student to staff ratio provides personalized attention and instruction during two to four-week long programs which offer a variety of challenge and a progression of skill development. Activities include rafting, canoeing, kayaking, backpacking, rock climbing, mountain biking, Spanish language study and leadership initiatives. Essential to each group's experience is a service learning project (in most cases applicable to high school credit). Students work on cross-cultural projects with Navajo, Hopi and Zuni people in the Southwest U.S., and homestays in Costa Rica; or conservation projects with the U.S. Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management. Students have the opportunity to learn new life skills, live within another culture, and make deeper connections with their group, the Earth and themselves. Deer Hill is for young people wishing to expand their horizons through the physical and mental challenges of living in the wilderness, and making new friends in a non-competitive atmosphere of respect and fun. Deer Hill has been reviewed and is accredited by the Association for Experiential Education.

When it comes to unforgettable summers Bold Earth Teen Adventures has been leading the teen adventure travel industry since 1976. Our vision empowers high school students to feel alive, competent and part of a self-motivated team. Enjoy world class expeditions in rock climbing, white water rafting, backpacking, biking, sailing, kayaking, horse packing and service projects. Our hallmark is responsibility, commitment and inspirational leadership. Phone interview and references are required. Join us in Alaska, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Europe, Colorado, Thailand, Fiji, Bali, Australia, England, California, Washington state, Africa and beyond. More locations. More adventures. Trips of a lifetime.

Since 1973, Wilderness Ventures has been conducting exciting expeditions for beginners and experienced young adults, ages 11 through 20. Expeditions visit a variety of wilderness environments in the Western United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, Europe, Australia, Central & South America, and the South Pacific for extended periods. Students learn outdoor and group leadership skills as well as gain an appreciation for various wilderness environments. Activities include backpacking, whitewater rafting & kayaking, mountaineering, biking, sailing, SCUBA, canoeing, sea kayaking, and community service. Participants come from nearly every state and several countries. Enrollment is limited, and applicants must submit school references prior to admission. Previous wilderness experience is not necessary.

Join Adventure Treks for two, three and four week Adventures for young adults ages 12 - 18 in the amazing scenery of the North American. How many teenagers get to Climb Mount Saint Helens, sea kayak with seals, rock climb famous cliffs, or raft big northwestern whitewater? Join students from all over the country and the world. Discover fun, friendships, adventure, community and growth. Program features a 1:4 instructor to student ratio. contact us today for a brochure and DVD.

“I tell parents they won’t believe their good fortune to have stumbled upon such a wholesome organization, with fabulous instructors, who use fun and adventure to tap into a facet of your child’s character, endurance, or personality that had never before found expression.”
F.D. Fields, parent from Pittsburg, PA

We believe every child deserves camp. Camp teaches kids valuable social skills, independence, and bonds people together like few other experiences. We bring in the added element of outdoor education, combining science, adventure, and fun to create life-changing experiences for every child we serve. Join us this summer and take home memories that will last a lifetime!


DISCOVERY CAMP - Ages 7 to 13

Science, adventure, and fun collide in a traditional camp setting as campers experience hands-on education and build lifelong connections with friends throughout a week filled with challenging adventure, team-building activities, and time-honored songs by the campfire. Each session incorporates lessons and activities focused around educational themes such as comparative ecology, astronomy, local history and wildlife biology.

BACK FOR 2012! Choose Your Own Adventure
During registration, Discovery Campers can now choose one of three adventure options for their chosen session(s). Options now vary by session theme.

NEW FOR 2012! Discovery Camp DELUXE: 12 Day Camp! Ages 7 to 13

In response to demand for longer programs, KSS is proud to present the biggest, funnest, most amazingly magical camp program yet: Discovery Camp DELUXE. This session packs TWELVE days chock-full of science, adventure and fun. That means multiple field days studying mountain life zones; multiple nights under the stars; multiple Adventure Days featuring rafting, horseback riding, sailing, or other exciting escapades. We’ll have enough time to enjoy literally ALL campers’ favorite games, evening programs and songs. It will be incredible, unbelievable, legendary … truly deluxe!

Some highlights include:

• Discovery Day – These are day hikes packed full of hands on education and a lot of fun. Campers explore and learn about the great mountain ecosystems of the Colorado Rockies.

• Overnight Backpacking Trip and Night Hike - Campers load their packs and head out into the wilds of the Rockies for an evening under the stars. After dinner at the campsite campers take a night hike with KSS staff to learn about the dark lives of nocturnal animals. Early in the morning each group prepares for the ultimate adventure the highly awaited…

• CHALLENGE HIKE!! - Here staff and campers set out on an all-day excursion to a nearby alpine lake, majestic peak or high altitude destination. Campers are rewarded with amazing views and a wonderful sense of accomplishment after achieving their goals.

• Whitewater Rafting - Each camper has the option to go on a rafting trip with other campers their age. Campers will ride water up to Class 3+ depending on age.


INTRO TO DISCOVERY CAMP - Ages 5 to 10

Specially designed for children new to the overnight camp experience, Intro to Discovery Camp is a shorter, scaled-down version of a traditional week-long Discovery Camp session. This allows children to build confidence and independence while developing an appreciation of the natural world through science education, exploration, and the traditional fun of summer camp. This summer, we’re offering both three- and four-night introductory options. These sessions do not feature offsite adventure days or wilderness camping (but, weather permitting, there will be an outdoor on-site camping experience!)

DAY CAMP - Ages 5 to 12

Our popular Day Camp provides hours of non-stop science, adventure and fun each summer weekday.
Each week, this completely original program features a different science-based theme that speaks to the minds and imaginations of young campers. At KSS, your child can transform into a pirate, superhero, astronaut, or botanist— complete with costumes, hands-on activities, and outdoor adventures. We incorporate creative activities, teambuilding, and investigative learning into each day.

COUNSELOR ASSISTANT PROGRAM (C.A.P.) – Ages 14 to 17

The CAP program offers teens the opportunity to serve as role models, develop as leaders, and make a difference in the lives of others. ‘CAPs’ take part in all aspects of the Discovery Camp program: Activity implementation, organizing campers, and participating in special leadership programs tailored just for them. This is a very popular program and we take great pride in our CAPs. Several of our counselors began their camp journeys as CAPs!


KEYSTONE MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES (KMA) - Ages 14 to 17

These longer, expedition-based sessions offer teens nonstop action and outdoor adventure. Exploration, hands-on education, and leadership development come together for a once-in-a-lifetime Rocky Mountain experience. Sessions range from two ten-day trips to an extended thirteen-day adventure. Participants will explore high-altitude Colorado by land, water, rope and rock. Team-building activities and low-impact wilderness travel principles are incorporated as we backpack through mountain landscapes, camp along the edge of wild rivers, and safely scale dramatic rock faces, learning about alpine weather and fire ecology as we go. Trip highlights include a professionally-guided whitewater rafting trip, soaking in hot springs, and an attempt at summiting one of Colorado’s mighty peaks.

So choose your adventure and experience the best Colorado has to offer with Keystone Science School!

Colvig Silver Camps is a family owned, coed, residential summer camp for campers ages 7-17 located in southwestern Colorado. Our philosophy is environmentally oriented and non-competitive, and our choice-based format is designed to develop self-esteem, leadership skills, responsibility, and teamwork. We believe that the challenges of outdoor education, fun, and adventure provide some of the best opportunities to achieve this goal.

The Poulter family is proud of the exciting life adventures we have provided to young people for more than 36 years. Campers join us from all 50 states and other countries as well. Outdoor leadership skills, teambuilding, challenging mountain adventures and other excursions are available to young people with a sense for adventure. No previous experience is necessary for any of our programs. Our dedicated staff help campers meet and overcome challenges. Our small size and 3:1 camper:staff ratio enables each camper to feel a real sense of belonging.

You CAN... enjoy the Rockies in the summer! Challenge Aspen offers year-round programs, including a variety of summer camps for children, teens and adults. (Adult programs are also offered through our C.A.M.O. division.) Rocky Mountain summers are spectacular, and when the snow and ice begin to melt, Challenge Aspen pulls out the summer gear to offer everything from award-winning gold medal rivers for fly fishing and rafting to horseback riding, hiking and climbing.

We have created summer camps both for the music, art and dance enthusiast and the outdoor adventurer in your family. Weeklong kids' camps provide the perfect setting, a knowledgeable staff and a safe, natural community where children are free to create memories of their own to share with their families at the end of a beautiful Colorado day.

All Challenge Aspen summer camps are Day camps.

OWA is a serious program for motivated beginners and experienced participants looking for advanced instruction in a variety of adventure sports. Professional, experienced guides offer top instruction while keeping things fun and interesting. Accredited by the American Mountain Guides Association and The Association for Experiential Education.

The Leading Edge is an introduction to backpacking and leadership for extraordinary 16-19 year olds. Many summer programs use the word leadership to describe what they do. The Leading Edge is the rare program that truly combines best-of-class wilderness education with professional leadership training. Nowhere else will you find such an advanced leadership curriculum for young adults, delivered by such an experienced and expert staff. And nowhere else will you find as much beauty, adventure and fun in the Colorado mountains!

Looking for a way to get your kids outside and active this summer while you are at work? Don't want them to stop learning just because it's summer? Then Adventures Outside is for you!

Join South Platte River Environmental Education at the South Platte River for a summer full of adventures! We will be learning about the environment along the South Platte by turning into Special Agents, traveling through time, going on safaris and even learning the ways of the Art Ninja!

Rites of Passage is an old phrase. Our ancestors, the Native Americans, the Africans and many of the worlds cultures know its value.

Over time, many of us have lost the wisdom of the Rites of Passage. Now is the time to bring it back. Our ancestors knew how to live with the Earth. In todays world, we are forced into technology, materialism, subdivisions, cell phones, computers and on and on. It gets harder and harder to connect with Nature and our own natural cycles.

The Rite of Passage is a time to honor the individual that is in "change". There are 6 phases involved: Acknowledgment, Separation, Discovery, Silence, Initiation and Celebration.

We travel into the wilderness and we find ourselves, our true selves.

We will learn the Medicine Wheel and how it affects our lives. We will connect with the 4 Elements of Air-Water-Fire-Earth. We will learn how to make fire from our bare hands. We will think about our lives. We will spend time alone. We will discover who we are. We will learn to honor ourselves. We will begin to live.

During the silence phase, we will adventure into a time of quiet. The native people call it the Vision Quest. It is the most powerful experience that we know of. It is the climax of the Rite of Passage Journey. Once complete with the Vision Quest, the person will have transformed themselves into something new. This new person is one who they, themselves has designed.

Very powerful.

The Sweat Lodge is an ancient initiation, where hot rocks are brought into a small confined area. Within the lodge, we sing, silence and focus on our lives. It is a purification ceremony. It is cleansing.

Upon return, the person is greeted by some of his family members and life-long mentors. They meet "for the first time" ... again.

This journey is not for the light at heart. It is ceremony and ritual and it will change our lives... should we give it a chance.

Are you ready?

We invite you to join us.

Surrounded by more than 5 million acres of the White River National Forest, our summer camp is nestled at the confluence of the Colorado River and Sweetwater Creek just 50 miles northwest of Vail, Colorado. This location is superb for an exciting outdoor adventure camp. With our summer camp on the Colorado River we are able to provide daily rafting trips. Plus, the White River National Forest provides a majestic setting for many fun-filled days of horseback riding, mountain climbing and backpacking. In fact, our summer camp has access to most of the scenic wonders and adventures available throughout Western Colorado and Utah.



Our Colorado adventure camp programs have non-stop activities. Campers choose morning and afternoon activities including horseback riding, white water river rafting, kayaking, mountain biking, rappelling, trap shooting, fishing, archery, climbing wall, ropes course and hiking.



The summer camp experience kicks into high gear. Each camper goes on a number of overnight trips and all-day trips. The first trip each session is a three-day cabin camp-out. This trip is not co-ed. Another trip is a 4 or 5-day extended trip. Each camper makes an individual choice according to his or her interests. The extended trips choices include of caving, mountain climbing, horseback riding and white water rafting

Since 1998, the Girls’ Wilderness Program has been providing girls with high quality outdoor adventure, and the inspiration to lead bigger, bolder lives. Our courses are fun, creative, adventurous, and designed specifically for girls. That means lots of laughter, strong and real friendships, challenge at just the right level, and the kind of experience that draws your full self forward.

Why just girls, and why the outdoors?
Girls are different! Our ‘girl-positive’ program recognizes girls’ unique strengths and needs, and balance physical challenge with the development of the healthy relationships that are crucial for girls’ confidence and self-esteem. On GWP courses, girls to learn to speak up for their values and beliefs, to honor their bodies, and to take the appropriate risks that lead to success. On an all-girl expedition, girls are more likely to take leadership, to fully own their experience, and to discover themselves as strong, playful, and capable. And, as a result, to have more fun!

What kind of girl comes to the Girls’ Wilderness Program?
All kinds! Our courses are designed for any girl who wants to give it a try- outdoorsy or not, artistic or not, quiet or bubbly, confident or uncertain. Good health, basic fitness, and the willingness to give it 100% are important, but no previous backpacking experience is necessary, except for the Leadership Course.

2011 Girls’ Wilderness Program Schedule includes:

ADVENTURE CAMP for girls age 12-13 (or entering 7th and 8th grades). Six-day wilderness sampler courses for middle school girls include rock climbing, a three-night backpacking trip, art projects, and an optional peak climb. Dates: June 16- 21, July 7- 12, July 21- 26, August 7-12.

ADVENTURE DAYS for girls age 9-11 (or entering 5th and 6th grades). Five consecutive one-day adventures offer a great introduction to hiking, rock climbing, expressive arts and the wilderness. Last night includes an overnight Dates: June 20-24, July 11-15, August 1-5.

LATINA GIRLS ADVNETURE DAYS for girls age 13-16 (or entering 8th-11th grades). Five consecutive one-day adventures that focus on outdoor experiences with other Latina girls including rock climbing, art projects, and includes an overnight on the last day. Latina women will serve as mentors and leaders. Dates: July 20-24.

WILDERNESS EXPEDITIONS for girls age 14-17 (or entering 9th-12th grades). Eight-day backpacking courses include a wide range of outdoor skills, an introduction to rock climbing and the chance to climb a peak. Dates: July 6-13, community service day July 14; July 29-August 5, community service day August 6.

WILD THINGS for girls age 13-16 (or entering 8th-11th grades). Six-day backpacking trip focusing on self-expression through a variety of creative activities, including art projects, rock-climbing, yoga and outdoor skills, focusing on making friends and having a blast. July 17-22.

ROCK CLIMBING CAMP for girls age 14-17 (or entering 9th-12th grades). Four-day rock climbing, camping and outdoor skills course at Vedauwoo, a renowned climbing site in southern Wyoming. Dates July 26-29.

LEADERSHIP COURSE for girls age 15-18 (or entering 10th-12th grades). This twelve-day expedition provides a more advanced backcountry experience with a focus on sharpening leadership skills. Includes rock climbing and an extended backpacking trip. Dates: July 31-August 11, Community Service Day August 12.

DAUGHTER-PARENT ADVENTURES for girls ages 8+. Girls choose from 3 different day-long activities to share with a parent or adult mentor. Learn outdoor skills for adventures together while exploring and sharing stories with other girl-mentor pairs. Dates: Rock Climbing June 26, Fly Fishing August 13.

More info including prices found on website. Tuition includes all gear, clothing and food. Generous full and partial scholarships are available. Mature female staff with safety focus and extensive experience working with teen girls. Courses begin in Boulder, and take place in Colorado and Southern Wyoming. AEE accredited.