Summer Camps
Now more than ever, young people need real connections to nature, as well as practical skills of resiliency for healthy living in the future. Providing these profound educational experiences has been our mission since 1996 as we deliver safe, exciting outdoor adventures year upon year.
Our summer nature and wilderness camps are lead by skilled instructors who specialize in teaching kids and adults alike. Whatever your outdoor interest, we work hard to ensure that you and your family will love the Wolf Camp experience. It’s our passion to teach students the real, practical life skills our ancestors always knew, and to reveal profound secrets of nature still hidden in plain sight all around our homes and in the wilderness.
Check out our KIDS NATURE DAY CAMPS in the Seattle-Tacoma area including Puyallup & Lake Sammamish locations. Kids ages 7-14 can experience exciting educational camps including the • Wilderness Skills Sampler • Wilderness Survival Craft • Wildlife Search & Rescue • Wild Cooking & Herbology and advanced themes for returning campers including Advanced Artisans, Advanced Ethnobotany, Advanced Animal Tracking, and Advanced Wilderness Survival.
Ages 9-16 can graduate into our OVERNIGHT YOUTH CAMPS at Lake Sammamish & Mt Rainier with themes like the introductory • Bite of the Wilderness Camp, the advanced • Out-of-this-World Wilderness Camp, and specialized themes like • Wild Chefs & Herbal Medics, • Archers, Artists & Artisans • Tracking Bugs, Birds, Bobcats, Bears & Beyond, • Secrets of the Ancient Scout and the Advanced Zombie Apocalypse Experience, plus the • Epic Fishing GeoTrip.
Spring Workshops for Adults & Family
Wolf Camp specializes in real-life survival skills and the practical application of plant knowledge, as well as true understanding of wildlife from backyard to wilderness. We have been teaching adult and family workshops since 1996, and you can still learn from the source with Wolf Camp directors Kim & Chris Chisholm in the following select opportunities, annually each spring:
- Sat, February 27, 2027 Wilderness Survival Training & Fire by Friction from 9:30-5:30 in Puyallup WA
- Sat, March 20, 2027 Wildlife Safety & Awareness: Animal Tracking & Bird Language from 9:30-5:30 in Orting WA with carpooling available from Puyallup.
- Sat, April 10, 2027 Wild Edible Plant Processing & Herbal Medicine Making from 9:30-5:30 in Puyallup WA
- Sat, May 1, 2027 Map, Compass & Natural Navigation Training from 9:30-5:30 in near Mt. Rainier with complimentary transportation from Puyallup.
April 22, 2027 Earth Day Activities in the neighborhood of the Wolf Camp home office of Blue Skye Farm, 1026 14th St SW, Puyallup WA- May 22, 2027 Seaweeds & Shellfish of the Salish Sea on Whidbey Island returns with carpooling form Puyallup, Renton, Bellevue, Seattle, Shoreline and the Mukilteo Ferry.
- June 12, 2027: Subsistence Fishing at the Salish Sea in Tacoma WA is back with our lead fishing instructor Charlie Borrowman
Apprenticeships & Internships
Train with directors Kim & Chris Chisholm as part of the Wolf Camp Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship which is an environmental education training program unique to the field since 1999, or the Blue Skye Farm Natural Science Education Internship certified by the Washington State Farm Internship Program since 2016. Teens returning from previous years can also begin their journey to becoming professional outdoor educators in the IIT Youth Mentoring Program which was founded in 2003.
- Wolf Camp Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship
- Blue Skye Farm Natural Science Education Internship
- Teen Alumni IIT Youth Mentoring Program