Youth Summer Camps
🌱5 to 8 year old camps are now available, along with those for 8 to 14 year olds!🌿
Port Townsend Junior Camps
for 5 to 8 year olds
Ages: 5-8
Tuition: $435
We will dig for roots, sauté shoots, gather delicious tea plants, make wild salads, make a simple berry basket, learn basic plant identification for edible, medicinal, poisonous and toxic plants, create wild berry treats and use stone tools to make wild pesto!
Dates: June 29-July 3, 2026
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Instructors: Chloe Lampert and assistant
Location: Natembea Farm and North Beach
JUNIOR HUNTER-GATHERER CAMP
June 29-July 3
Ages 5-8
A five-day wilderness experience focused on foraging, cooking, and outdoor skills.
Ages: 5-8
Tuition: $435
Learn the ancient ability of moving through the forest undetected. Learn how scouts used the knowledge of their surroundings to keep their people safe and healthy through games of stealth, camouflage, fire making techniques (burn ban dependent), and animal tracking. Set up a primitive camp and learn to survive and thrive in the wild.
Other activities include foraging for edible and medicinal plants, shelter building, and bushcraft. Every day will be a new adventure among secret forests and magical mountain creeks.
Dates: July 6-10
Time: 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Instructors: Chloe Lampert and assistant
Location: Jefferson County forests
Note: This camp and the older camp during the same week will be held at different locations.
JUNIOR SCOUT CAMP
July 6-10
Ages 5-8
A hands-on wilderness camp focused on stealth, tracking, fire skills, foraging, and survival.
Ages: 5-8
Tuition: $435
Join us for a week-long outdoor scavenger hunt to practice wilderness skills on the move! Students will become familiar with contour maps, compasses, aidless navigation, storylines, sundials, wildlife tracking, and celestial bearings. Each day will be spent finding clues and riddles that will culminate in an end of the week feast.
Dates: August 3-7
Time: 9:00am to 3:00pm
Instructors: Chloe Lampert and assistant
Location: Port Townsend and outlying area
JUNIOR ADVENTURE CAMP
Session 1: July 13-17
Session 2: August 3-7
Ages 5-8
An imaginative week-long wilderness scavenger hunt that blends navigation skills, storytelling, and outdoor exploration.
Ages 5-8
Tuition: $435
This camp offers a safe space to hone our wilderness skills. Age- and ability-appropriate curriculum allows students to be introduced to the basics of setting up a camp and being comfortable outside in the elements.
Campers that are ready will be mentored in our knife handling curriculum and, depending on abilities, they may pass our "knife certification" criteria. Other skills involve fundamentals of rope making, edible and medicinal plants, simple weaving or basketry, shelter building, fire making and more.
Dates: July 20-24
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Instructors: Chloe Lampert and assistant
Location: Various locations in Port Townsend
JUNIOR INTRO TO WILDERNESS SKILLS
July 20-24
Ages 5-8
Participants build confidence and wilderness skills through fire making, shelter building, rope work, foraging, and weaving, with optional knife certification for those ready.
Ages: 5-8
Tuition: $435
Creating clay projects, looking for crawdads, building rafts, harvesting riparian plants, tracking otters…what more could a kid ask for? Each day will be filled with exploring the aqueous world through projects, games, and adventure.
Dates: July 27-31
Time: 9:00am-3:00pm
Location: Irondale Beach
Instructors: Chloe Lampert and assistant
JUNIOR RIVERS AND TIDES
July 27-31
Ages 5-8
Discover the aquatic world through clay creations, crawdad hunts, raft building, plant foraging, and otter tracking.
Port Townsend Youth Camps
for 8 to 14 year olds
Ages 8-14
Tuition: $435 (includes camp t-shirt)
We will dig for roots, sauté shoots, gather delicious tea plants, make wild salads, create hunting tools, practice survival traps, dig for shellfish, forage for edible invertebrates, learn wildlife tracking techniques and create wild berry treats - all in just 5 days!
Dates:
Time: 9:00am to 3:00pm
Instructors: Ramzy Berbawy and assistant
Location: Cappy’s Trails and North Beach
HUNTER-GATHERER AND OUTDOOR COOKING CAMP
June 29-July 3
Ages 8-14
Five days of wild food, outdoor cooking, and hands-on nature skills.
Ages 8-14
Tuition: $435
Learn the ancient ability of moving through the forest undetected. Learn how scouts used the knowledge of their surroundings to keep their people safe and healthy through games of stealth, camouflage, fire making techniques (burn ban dependent), and animal tracking. Set up a primitive camp and learn to survive and thrive in the wild. Other activities include foraging for edible and medicinal plants, shelter building, and bushcraft. Every day will be a new adventure among secret forests and magical mountain creeks.
Dates: July 27-31
Time: 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Instructors: Ramzy Berbawy and assistant
Location: Cappy’s and Tamanowas Rock
SCOUT CAMP
Session 1: July 6-10
Session 2: July 27-31
Ages 8-14
Move unseen through the forest while learning tracking, shelter building, foraging, and wild skills.
Ages: 8-14
Tuition: $435
Join us for a week-long outdoor scavenger hunt to practice wilderness skills on the move! Students will become familiar with contour maps, compasses, aidless navigation, storylines, sundials, wildlife tracking, and celestial bearings. Each day will be spent finding clues and riddles that will culminate in an end of the week feast.
Dates: July 13-17
Time: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Location: Cappy’s Trails and North Beach
Instructors: Ramzy Berbawy and assistant
ADVENTURE CAMP
July 13-17
Ages 8-14
A week of outdoor exploration where navigation, tracking, and survival skills are learned through clues, riddles, and immersive challenges.
Ages 8-14
Tuition: $435
Ready, aim, fire! This camp is designed to defy gravity. Participants will make and shoot bows, throwing sticks, atl-atls, slings, and blow darts. Each day will be filled with a projectile project and nature awareness games. This is a great camp for students to learn how to safely utilize ancient tools with confidence and respect. Tuition includes material fee for completed projects to continue participant’s skill refinement at home.
Dates: July 20-24
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Instructors: Ramzy Berbawy and assistant
Location: Cappy’s Trails and North Beach, Port Townsend
PROJECTILE CAMP
Session 1: July 20-24
Session 2: August 3-7
Ages 8-14
An action-packed camp where kids build and safely use ancient projectile tools, play nature awareness games, and grow confidence through hands-on fun.
Age: 8-14
Tuition: $435
This outdoor camp is for our 8-14 year old nature detectives. Imagine being able to read the forest like a newspaper and uncover the clues to see what wild animals are doing when no one is around to witness.
Through games and activities campers will be exposed to our wildlife tracking curriculum that culminates with a hands-on citizen science project. We will make plaster casts to take home, set camera traps to test our tracking skills and even partner with Panthera to track cougars in a local mountain lion project! This program will include track identification, aging, trailing and several wildlife scavenger hunts.
Dates: August 10-14
Time: 9:00am-3:00pm
Instructors: Ramzy Berbawy and assistant
Location: wild Jefferson County forests
TRACKING THE WILD
August 10-14
Ages 8-14
Learn to read the forest and uncover animal mysteries through tracking, casts, camera traps, and scavenger hunts.
Sequim Youth Camps
for 8 to 14 year olds
Ages 8-14
Tuition: $435 (includes camp t-shirt)
We will dig for roots, sauté shoots, gather delicious tea plants, make wild salads, create hunting tools, practice survival traps, dig for shellfish, forage for edible invertebrates, learn wildlife tracking techniques and create wild berry treats - all in just 5 days!
Dates:
Time: 9:00am to 3:00pm
Instructors: Joshua Sylvester and assistant
Location: Dungeness Trails Parking off River Rd.
HUNTER-GATHERER AND OUTDOOR COOKING CAMP
June 22-26
Ages 8-14
Five days of wild food, outdoor cooking, and hands-on nature skills.
Ages 8-14
Tuition: $435
Ready, aim, fire! This camp is designed to defy gravity. Participants will make and shoot bows, throwing sticks, atl-atls, slings, and blow darts. Each day will be filled with a projectile project and nature awareness games. This is a great camp for students to learn how to safely utilize ancient tools with confidence and respect. Tuition includes material fee for completed projects to continue participant’s skill refinement at home.
Dates: June 29-July 4
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Instructors: Joshua Sylvester and assistant
Location: Dungeness Trails Parking off River Rd.
PROJECTILE CAMP
June 29-July 4
Ages 8-14
An action-packed camp where kids build and safely use ancient projectile tools, play nature awareness games, and grow confidence through hands-on fun.
Ages 8-14
Tuition: $435
This camp offers a safe space to hone our wilderness skills. Age- and ability-appropriate curriculum allows students to be introduced to the basics of setting up a camp and being comfortable outside in the elements. Campers that are ready will be mentored in our knife handling curriculum and, depending on abilities, they may pass our "knife certification" criteria. Other skills involve fundamentals of rope making, edible and medicinal plants, simple weaving or basketry, shelter building, fire making and more.
Dates: July 6-10
Time: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Instructors: Joshua Sylvester and assistant
Location: Dungeness Trails Parking off River Rd.
WILDERNESS SKILLS CAMP
July 6-10
Ages 8-14
A skill-rich week of outdoor adventure that balances excitement, safety, and confidence-building in nature.
Ages 8-14
Tuition: $435
Learn the ancient ability of moving through the forest undetected. Learn how scouts used the knowledge of their surroundings to keep their people safe and healthy through games of stealth, camouflage, fire making techniques (burn ban dependent), and animal tracking. Set up a primitive camp and learn to survive and thrive in the wild. Other activities include foraging for edible and medicinal plants, shelter building, and bushcraft. Every day will be a new adventure among secret forests and magical mountain creeks.
Dates: July 13-17
Time: 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Instructors: Joshua Sylvester and assistant
Location: Dungeness Trails Parking off River Rd.
SCOUT CAMP
July 13-17
Ages 8-14
Move unseen through the forest while learning tracking, shelter building, foraging, and wild skills.