Site Overview

Round Meadow has cabin dormitories. The camp will house approximately one hundred eighty people during a program. Participants stay in heated cabins with access to adjacent bathrooms Meals are in the cafeteria, except for lunches eaten while on the trail.

Hiking, initiative games, group challenges, high and low challenge courses, outpost camps (optional), group art, astronomy, earth science, life science, and age appropriate environmental science activities. Group and individual challenges, cooperative challenges, increased identification with the natural environments and basic natural history of the area are included. Introduction to environmental science concepts, minimum impact wilderness travel, outdoor skills, camping techniques, and a shared common experience are included.

Educational Overview

• Plant communities – botany, ecology, plant identification
• Adapta­tions of plants and animals
• Geology – landforms
• The stars – cosmology, constellations, & mythology
• Environmen­tal resource management
• Outdoor skills – tents, maps, compass, Dutch oven cooking, knots….
• Snow forest ecology