The Timbers offers exciting trip programs to girls in middle school and older. Girls explore arts, canoeing, sailing, backpacking, and cycling. Progression is the key to this program, meaning that girls build on skills each summer they return, taking longer and more challenging trips. Campers register for a variety of trips throughout Northern Michigan and beyond; we have programs for beginners through advanced participants. Destinations include The Manitou Islands, Isle Royale, Mackinac Island, the Boundary Waters, and much more!

Campers live and work in small groups with highly trained staff members. Girl Scouts and non-Girl Scouts welcome!!

Offering 8 weeks of day camp June through early August. Theme for grades 1-4 is "Knights in Shining Armor". Grades 5-8 participate in "Army of the One" Adventure Camp. Also offering 1/2 day KinderKamp for students entering Kindergarten.

Trips are non-competitive and are offered to anyone regardless of trip or outdoor experience.
Participant involvement is vital to Crystalaire Adventures. Trips participants help plan and prepare for trips, help organize in daily activities and assist with daily chores including preparing meals, washing dishes, fetching water and making fires.
One of the most important aspects of Crystalaire Adventures is that they are focused on group interaction, making friends, having fun, being safe and enjoying beautiful natural surroundings. Through hiking, canoeing, backpacking, caving or kayaking our goal is to help campers foster a sense of belonging to the natural world and a feeling of wonder for the environment to which we belong. We aim to lead trips that are not about conquering mountains or pushing personal limits, but that help us discover what it feels like to sleep under the stars, come across a moose on a woodland trail, taste pancakes made over an open fire and sit around a campfire telling stories with friends.

The Michigan Technological University Summer Youth Program will introduce you to careers and allow you to develop new skills through laboratory, classroom, and field experiences. The program includes more than seventy one-week explorations, scheduled over multiple weeks. You may attend only one exploration per week, but can register for multiple weeks. Last summer, almost 900 students attended SYP from all over the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Columbia, Monaco and Spain.

We offer 4 different types of programs:
* Summer Camps: Explorations for current 6th - 8th graders
* Career and Adventure Explorations: current 9th - 11th graders
* Competitive Scholarship Programs: current 9th - 11th graders
* Courses for College Credit: current 10th - 11th graders

An exploration is an intensive week-long look at a particular field or area of interest and is offered in six different categories designed to introduce you to a world of opportunities. Explorations allow you to learn to use a computer, rappel, or perform diagnostic chemical tests. In other explorations you could fly a plan, backpack through a scenic wilderness area, or cast molten metal. Each exploration is led by a Michigan Tech faculty member, graduate student, or other specialist in that particular field. You will spend approximately thirty-two hours investigating your area of interest through classroom activities, hands-on laboratory exercises, field trips, and discussions with your instructors and other students.

Enrollment is open until each class reaches seating capacity. Classes are limited to 20 students or less.