Join our fun, skill-building programs guided by skilled instructors who are specially trained to teach pre-teens, teens and young adult groups during overnight camps. We ran our first overnight summer camps in the spring and summer of 1998, and we now offer a host of camps for kids, adults and family.
Our hallmark 6-1 average student-teacher ratio ensures profound outdoor experiences that will become some of the best memories in life. It’s our passion to reveal the secrets of nature still hidden in plain sight all around our homes and in the wilderness. And it’s our mission to teach campers practical life skills in the outdoors. Now more than ever, young people need real connections to nature, as well as skills of resiliency and healthy living as they face everything the future holds.
Voted Best Wild Nature Day Camp in the last Golden Teddy Awards run by parentmap.com surveying the Puget Sound Region.
June 29 – July 3, 2026 Wilderness Skills Sampler Overnight Camp for ages 9-16 has no prerequisite, and runs simultaneously with the Advanced FLOW Overnight Camp for ages 10-17 with prerequisite of any prior camp with us. Cost for the Wilderness Skills Sampler overnight camp is $1,175; cost for the Advanced FLOW overnight camp is $1,075 for returning day campers experiencing their first overnight camp with us, or $975 for overnight campers returning from previous years. Tuitions include all applicable taxes and fees. Both of these overnight camp themes run from Monday 9am – Friday 4pm.
July 6-10, 2026: Archers, Artists & Artisans at Lake Sammamish for ages 11-16 from Monday 9am – Friday 4pm, with prerequisite of at least one of our overnight camps in the past, or two of our day camps or family workshops prior to this week. Cost is $1,475 if this is your first-ever overnight camp with us, or $1,375 if it’s your second overnight camp with us, $1,275 if it’s your third, or $1,175 if it’s your fourth or more, including any applicable taxes and fees.
July 19-24, 2026: Out-of-this-World Wilderness Camp near Mt. Rainier from Sunday 4pm – Friday 4 pm (with optional return transportation arriving in Puyallup at 7pm) for ages 11-16, with prerequisite of at least one of our overnight camps in the past, or two of our day camps or family workshops prior to this week. Cost is $1,175 if this is your first overnight camp with us, or $1,075 if it’s your second overnight camp with us, and $975 if it’s your third or more, including any applicable taxes and fees. 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.
August 3-7, 2026 Tracking Bugs, Birds, Bobcats, Bears & Beyond at Lake Sammamish for ages 10-15 from Monday 9am – Friday 4pm, with prerequisite completion of our Wildlife Search & Rescue day camp or family wildlife workshop or any overnight camp prior to this week. Cost is $1,175 if this is your first overnight camp with us, or $1,075 if it’s your second overnight camp with us, and $975 if it’s your third or more, including any applicable taxes and fees.
August 10-14, 2026 Wild Chefs & Herbal Medics at Lake Sammamish for ages 10-15 from Monday 9am – Friday 4pm, with prerequisite completion of our Wild Cooking & Herbology day camp or family ethnobotany workshop or any overnight camp prior to this week. Cost is $1,175 if this is your first overnight camp with us, or $1,075 if it’s your second overnight camp with us, and $975 if it’s your third or more, including any applicable taxes and fees.
August 17-21, 2026 Secrets of the Ancient Scout at Lake Sammamish for ages 11-16 from Monday 9am – Friday 4pm, with prerequisite of two prior weeks with us including successful completion of at least one overnight camp with no exceptions. Cost is $1,175 if this is your second-ever overnight camp with us, $1,075 if it’s your third, or $975 if it’s your fourth or more, including any applicable taxes and fees. Runs simultaneously with the Advanced Zombie Apocalypse Survival Test for ages 12-17 with prerequisite of • Secrets of the Ancient Scout in prior years, and the • Out-of-this-World Wilderness Camp this year or in prior years.
August 24-28, 2026: Epic GeoTrip – Subsistence Fishing from Lake Sammamish & Snoqualmie Pass, to the Yakima Canyon & Chinook Pass, to the Salish Sea & Pacific Coast from Monday 9am to Friday 4pm for ages 10-16 with prerequisite of at least one overnight camp with us prior to this week. Cost is $1,975 if this is your second-ever overnight camp with us, or $1,875 if it’s your third, $1,775 if it’s your fourth, and $1,675 if it’s your fifth or more, including taxes and fees.
August 30, 2026 begins the Epic GeoTrek – Honorable Hunting, Photography & Field Science for ages 12-17 starting Sunday and campers can stay as many days as they like through Friday, Sept 4th or until their school year begins, with prerequisites of the • Out-of-this-World Wilderness Camp as well as a • wildlife tracking camp and an • advanced artisans camp with us. Cost is $275 per day with a minimum stay of 3 days at camp, including taxes and fees.
Camp Leaders
Kim or Chris Chisholm will be on site all week directing staff instructors at our hallmark 6-1 average student-teacher ratio that’s so 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.
Tuition
See above for tuitions ranging from $975 – $1,975 depending on the week and how many overnight camps you’ve attended. Discounts are available for additional family members and referring new camp families who successfully register. If needed to attend a camp week of your choice, click here to apply for financial aid from the Max Davis Scholarship Fund. All expenses are included for camps starting Mondays at Lake Sammamish, whereas for camps starting Sundays near Mount Rainier, you will need to purchase camping food, cook stoves, and other backcountry gear as part of your camper’s wilderness skills training.
Registration Process
STEP 1 – Reserve your spots in camp by $200 deposits per overnight camp week 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 or • CashApp to $wolfschool but again, try to add your contact information, camper name, program theme and dates, or follow up via email;
• Or use Credit Card or Apple Pay by clicking here and follow up with an email;
• Or call us between 9am-9pm at 425-248-0253 ex 1 with a credit card to register over the phone;
• Or use PayPal system appearing below….
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. In case you’re having trouble downloading or making a copy of our Google Doc , please email us for a Word or PDF version of the registration form, and again, complete within one week to maintain your reservation. If your camper has attended Wolf Camp in the past, a new registration form is not needed.
STEP 3 – Pay balance during your summer camp weeks. We’ll email you an invoice this spring with camp prep info and balance payment options. 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, but you are also welcome to pay your balance in advance if you prefer.
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.
Camp Preparation: Agreements, Packing List, Health Protocols and FAQ’s
Recommended Packing List for Overnight Camps at Lake Sammamish (or click on your camp week for specialized packing lists when taking place at or traveling to other locations)
Agreements for Participation in Overnight Camps
Homesickness Protocol & Prevention
Other FAQ’s – Frequently Asked Questions (Most Asked Question: What are bathroom and sleeping arrangements like? Bathrooms are primitive, and we train campers in wilderness hygiene and private outdoor bathing methods as part of their learning experience. We provide camping tents, and campers may have (or bring) their own, or share one with others, depending on pandemic protocols. We recommend you bring your own pillow, sleeping bag and foam pad, although we have extras if needed. Click on packing list above for more details.)
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.