Camp RiverRidge is our exciting environmental summer program developed for children from second through twelfth grade. Children enrolled in our program are taught environmental concepts in exciting, collaborative, and interactive ways.
In addition to our comprehensive environmental program, kids can bank on exciting activities like arts and crafts, games like volleyball and frisbee golf, daily hikes, playing in the Shenandoah River and Spout Run, and scavenger hunts. Children enrolled in our program also get to meet Peggy Coontz of the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center and safely interact with the multitude of wild animals that are being rehabilitated for their eventual release back into the wild. Kids may get to meet Taterbug, a ground hog, Stanley the opossum, or Barron the Screech Owl.
Our activities are designed to build upon a child's natural curiosity, to develop teamwork skills, to provide exercise, to build and reinforce knowledge, and to develop physical and mental awareness. We introduce our campers to a multitude of scientific equipment and procedures. Our campers will learn how to use equipment like a microscope, binoculars, a GPS unit, a topographic map, a geologic map, a compass, a hand lens, a sling psychrometer, a clinometer and many other devices. Our campers will be lead on wilderness walks where they will learn to identify many of the species that inhabit the land trust and the youth camp. They will hear from guest speakers like members of the Audubon Society and local scientists. They will be taught the scientific method and perform environmental observations of their own.
We have divided the summer into four programs by grade level. Each program is one week long, focuses on grade appropriate environmental topics, and takes place between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm Monday through Friday.
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