Outdoor Education


At Walcamp, located 70 miles east of Chicago in Kingston, IL, students have a unique opportunity to learn from nature. With acres of woods, ponds and streams surrounded by farmland, Walcamp is the ideal living laboratory where children can explore and learn. Off-site properties such as an emu farm and an historic graveyard add diversity to the learning adventure for Outdoor Education students.

Walcamp offers schools a self-contained experiential environmental education program, including overnight accomodations and meal plans. We offer a flexible curriculum of educational and recreational units, including weather, orienteering, ecosystems, plant and animal study, astronomy, creative writing, fire-building, outdoor cooking and wilderness survival, and canoeing, archery, nature hikes and team challenges and sports.

Outdoor education allows for additional developmental opportunities, from spritual growth through Bible study and devotions, to community building through mealtime and campfires, to the sense of independence many children gain with their first overnight experience away from home.

Outdoor education programs are structured in a variety of ways, from a week-long program for a classroom of 6th graders, to a series of daytime programs for home-schooled children. Walcamp's staff can provide a fully coordinated outdoor education event, help in the planning, implementation and leadership of your program, or you can create and run a program entirely on your own - the choice is yours.

Schools provide adult leaders to supervise all non-programmed times at camp, transport students for off-site learning, and sleep in the cabins with the students.

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