Give your child the gift of our Summer Day Camps in Puyallup/Tacoma, running Mon-Fri 9:00-4:00 with drop off between 8:30-9:15, and pick-up between 3:30-4:30. Campers are grouped with others closest to their age within our hallmark 6-1 student-teacher ratio that’s so critical for safe and profound outdoor experiences. We were voted Best Wild Nature Day Camp in the last Golden Teddy Awards run by parentmap.com surveying the Puget Sound Region.
It’s our passion to teach students practical life skills in the outdoors, and to reveal profound secrets of nature still hidden in plain sight all around our homes and in the wilderness. Now more than ever, young people need real connections to nature, as well as skills for resiliency and healthy living in the future. Providing these educational opportunities has been our mission since 1996, and we look forward to your children joining us for even more exciting, safe adventures this year.
2027 Puyallup Camp Schedule
June 28 – July 2, 2027 at Clark’s Creek Park & Blue Skye Farm: • Blue Skye Farm & Forest Camp with no prerequisite for ages 8-15 who have real interest, focus and diligence to work on the farm and in the forest. (Taste of the Wilderness Overnight Sampler Camp also runs at Lake Sammamish this week for ages 9-16 with no prerequisite.)
July 5-9, 2027: Out-of-this-World Wilderness Camp near Mt. Rainier runs this week for ages 11-16 who have attended at least one of our overnight camps in the past, or two of our day camps or family workshops prior to this week; runs simultaneously with the Advanced Wilderness Education & Survival Training for ages 12-17 who have attended the Out-of-this-World Wilderness camp before, or two other overnight camps with us in the past.
July 12-16 , 2027 at Clark’s Creek Park & Blue Skye Farm: • Wildcrafting & Herbology for ages 7-14 who are able to focus on the study of plants, running at the same time as • Advanced Animal Tracking, Bugging & Birding for ages 8-15 who have attended our Wildlife Search & Rescue day camp in past years, or the family wildlife tracking workshop earlier this spring, or two other day camps or family workshop themes, or any of our overnight camps before.
July 19-23 , 2027 at Clark’s Creek Park & Blue Skye Farm: • Wildlife Search & Rescue: Bugs, Birds, Bobcats, Bears & Beyond for ages 7-14 with no prerequisite, runs at the same time as • Advanced Herbal Cooking & Medicinal Craft for ages 8-15 who have attended our Wildcrafting & Herbology day camp before this week, or the family ethnobotany workshop earlier this spring, or two other day camps or family workshop themes, or any of our overnight camps before.
July 26-30, 2027 at Clark’s Creek Park & Blue Skye Farm: • Wilderness Survival Craft for ages 7-14 with no prerequisite, and this theme is great for all hands-on learners ready to get dirty. • Advanced Wilderness Survival for runs simultaneously for ages 8-15 who attended a prior wilderness survival camp or family workshop with us, or two other prior camp weeks.
Aug 2-6, 2027 Overnight Ancient Artisans Camp for ages 11-17 runs at Lake Sammamish with prerequisite of three prior day camps or one overnight). Aug 9-13, 2027 World of Plants & World of Animals overnight camps for ages 9-16 run simultaneously with prerequisite of one overnight, or a day camp of the same theme. Aug 16-20, 2027 Overnight Scout & Advanced Zombie Apocalypse run at Lake Sammamish with previous overnight camp(s) required.
August 23-27 , 2027 at Clark’s Creek Park & Blue Skye Farm: • Advanced Wilderness Survival for ages 7-15 and • Advanced Farm & Forest for ages 8-15 run simultaneously with prerequisite of our Wilderness Survival Craft or Blue Skye Farm & Forest, or a combination of 2 other day camps. (August 23-27, 2027 Epic Subsistence Fishing Trip runs simultaneously for ages 10-16 with prerequisite of at least one prior overnight or day camp with us and no exceptions.)
Voted Best Wild Nature Day Camp in the last Golden Teddy Awards run by parentmap.com surveying the Puget Sound Region.
Daily Camp Schedule, Pick-Up & Drop-Off Directions
Puyallup Day Camps meet at Clark’s Creek Park – South Shelter, 1710 12th Ave SW, Puyallup WA 98371 located one mile west of the Puyallup Fairgrounds, with walking field trips to the Wolf Camp home office of Blue Skye Farm at 1026 14th St SW. For all weeks in Puyallup, the best arrival time is 8:45-9:00 am, and the best departure time is 3:45-4:00 pm…
8:30-9:00 Check-Ins & Morning Care (no early check-ins available)
9:00-9:15 Songs, Stories, Stretches & Late Check-Ins
9:15-11:45 Morning Lessons with snack break at 10:30
11:45-1:15 Lunch, Games & Archery
1:15-3:45 Afternoon Lessons with snack break at 2:30
3:45-4:00 Best Pick-Up Time
4:00-4:30 Aftercare & Late Pick-Ups
Camp Leaders
Camp Directors Kim & Chris Chisholm split their time between Puyallup & Lake Sammamish teaching groups and directing staff instructors at our hallmark 6-1 average student-teacher ratio that’s critical for safe and profound outdoor experiences. Read our FAQ’s for more details and check out camp testimonials dating all the way back to 1997.
Day Camp Tuition in Puyallup/Tacoma
We run our hometown Puyallup Day Camps on a sliding scale from $595-$195 including all applicable taxes and fees. If using the sliding-scale, please include answers to our financial aid questions so we can request reimbursement from the Conservation College Max Davis Scholarship Fund. Please note, we may only be able to offer one camp week at a reduced rate due depending on enrollment. If your camper has physical disabilities that make other camps inaccessible, please call to discuss the accommodations we have available and register over the phone at literally any contribution level.
You will need to pack a healthy lunch, water and substantial snacks every day. Tuition includes t-shirt at your first camp with us, then in subsequent camps a choice of orienteering compass, recommended field guide, firesteel and other outdoor essentials depending on number of camps attended, age and availability.
Registration Options
STEP 1 – Reserve your spots in camp by making $100 deposit per camper per week (or $50 if using sliding-scale reduced tuition) via one of the following methods:
• Zelle using our email address with that extra “e” on skye plus try to add a note including camper name/age, camp start date/theme, plus your CONTACT INFORMATION (phone number is fine if system doesn’t allow sharing email) if we don’t already have your info since Zelle doesn’t automatically share that with us; or follow up right away with an email.
• Or use Venmo to @Chris-Chisholm-13 but again, try to add your contact information, camper name, program theme and dates, or follow up right away with that via email;
• Or use Credit Card or Apple Pay by clicking here and consider adding 3% if using this payment method;
• Or call us between 9am-9pm at 253-225-1547 with a credit card to register over the phone (if we are screening for spam, leave message to have us call you back, or just text us to call you regarding camp registration)
• Or use PayPal system appearing below after January 1st.
STEP 2 – If this is your camper’s first year with us, complete our once-in-a-lifetime Registration Form within one week of making your deposit, otherwise we will have to refund you and give your spot(s) to others. We’ll also email you Word/PDF versions of the registration form in case you’re having trouble downloading or making a copy of our Google Doc form which you can send or share back to our email address for review within one week to maintain your reservation. If your camper has attended Wolf Camp in the past, a new registration form is not needed, but we will may email a questionnaire for your camper to submit as application for this year.
STEP 3 – Pay balance before or during your summer camp weeks. We’ll email you an invoice this spring with camp prep info and balance payment options that can be done in advance or during your first camp week. All payments are non-refundable unless we refuse your registration. However, if you cancel (at any time for any reason is fine) we will save your payments as credit for you to use in future years, or you can choose to have us move the funds into our scholarship account if you prefer. The best practice is to make the minimum deposits to register, and then wait to pay the remaining balances during summer.
Refund Policy: Payments are not refundable unless we don’t accept your application. If you cancel for any reason, you may receive a full credit good through the following calendar year on appropriate and available programs listed on our schedule, although an additional deposit may be needed to secure your spot in the future program. If a program you sign up for is canceled and not rescheduled at a time you can attend, you may receive a full refund except in cases of natural (weather, geologic, wildfire, etc) disasters, grid failures, epidemics, government shutdowns, conflicts or curfews, or other unforeseen emergencies making it unsafe for staff and/or attendees to reach or use program locations, in which case all payments made will be held by us without expiration date for your future use in appropriate/available programs of your choice. Reasons include the expenditure of funds (property rentals, advertising, materials, admin staff time, etc.) long before programs take place, i.e. deposits make it feasible for Wolf Camp to schedule programs in the first place, but our mutually understood agreement is that Wolf Camp will run the program at the safest available time in the future. Finally, no refund, nor credit, is given if a participant is a no-show without prior notice, or asked to leave a program for inappropriateness as determined by our kids, youth and adult agreements for participation.
Day Camp Preparation: Agreements, Packing List, Health Protocols and FAQ’s
Day Camp Agreements for Participation
Hygiene protocols will remain the same as last year as long as there’s still little evidence of Covid/Cold/Flu transmission in the outdoors with room to spread out. To start each day, campers must pass our health screening. If there are reports of group participants who came in contact with an infection, we may provide n95 masks to wear when less than 3-6 feet from others. As before the pandemic, we require hand sanitizing when sharing tools and materials, before entering toilets, and we train campers with proper hand washing after campers exit toilet facilities with doors left open between uses to ensure ventilation.
Full vaccinations are strongly encouraged – we follow the scientific consensus – with tetanus shot (usually given as part of the normal Tdap vaccine series) considered the most important in the field of outdoor education. Otherwise, we know that due to our 100% outdoor setting, combined with health screenings, contact tracing, supervised hand washing, bathroom ventilation, mask use when exposure has been reported in a group, and individual/family style tenting at overnight camps, the risk of disease transmission has been negligible at Wolf Camp, so other vaccination records are not required.
Read our FAQ’s for more details and register asap to give yourself or a loved one the gift of camp! Or email us to be put on our our list for this program in the future. We always keep your information absolutely private, and will never share it.