With 4,500 acres to explore, Jack Creek Preserve is the ideal place to bring your class or group of all ages. Our Outdoor Education Center provides a unique venue to connect indoor learning with outdoor, hands-on learning. Bring your own program or work with us to enhance your program.

We host one winter camp for participants ages 14-17, focusing on backcountry safety and snow science. Lessons include:

  • Avalanche awareness

  • Wildlife winter adaptations & habitat use

  • Winter shelter building

  • Avalanche dog rescue demonstration

The winter camp is 3 day/2 nights. The registration fee includes all meals, instruction and activities, and facilities. Full and partial scholarships are available.

OUTDOOR SKILLS CAMPS

Winter and Summer

The Preserve hosts summer camps for youth ages 11-16 to learn a variety of outdoor skills. The goal of our camps is to introduce campers to outdoor educational activities that will instill an appreciation of our natural surroundings and their conservation. During one of the summer camps, campers have the opportunity to earn their Bowhunter Education Certification.

The cost of each camp varies and includes all meals, instruction and activities, campsite, and facilities. Full scholarships are available.

 

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING

The Preserve can work with your instructors to develop a program that would complement the school's curriculum during your visit to the Preserve. Programs can be adapted to different ages/groups and may include leave no trace, outdoor survival, water ecology, wildlife management, animal tracking, plant sampling and identification, birds, mammals, and tree identification, and more!   

CONSERVATION FIELD SCHOOLS

Conservation through Education

Our Conservation Field Schools provide teachers with professional development in wildlife conservation, habitat preservation, and with outdoor skills they can take back to the classroom. Field Schools are offered annually. Visit the Conservation Field Schools webpage for more information on previous Field Schools and to register for upcoming Field Schools.