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Where everywhere is an adventure
Day Camps,
After-School Programs, and More!
See the wide range of options below, built to help fit any explorer's schedule and interests
Day Camps
Each day is a new WILD ride filled with fun, discovery, and learning in HAWKs Camps. Single-session and week-long adventures offered June-August, during school breaks, and on special weekends.
After School Adventures
Each day is a new WILD ride filled with fun, discovery, and learning in HAWKs Camps. Single-session and week-long adventures offered June-August, during school breaks, and on special weekends.
Out-In-The-Field Trips
Each day is a new WILD ride filled with fun, discovery, and learning in HAWKs Camps. Single-session and week-long adventures offered June-August, during school breaks, and on special weekends.
Red Tail Treks
Each day is a new WILD ride filled with fun, discovery, and learning in HAWKs Camps. Single-session and week-long adventures offered June-August, during school breaks, and on special weekends.
Birthday Parties
Each day is a new WILD ride filled with fun, discovery, and learning in HAWKs Camps. Single-session and week-long adventures offered June-August, during school breaks, and on special weekends.
On a HAWKs Adventure, Your Explorer Will…
Create A Deeper Connection To The Outdoors
Above all, HAWKs is designed as a refreshing, simple program. Meant to help kids develop a better sense of themselves, and of the world, through first-hand experience. By moving through and discovering nature for themselves, our explorers grow to understand the outdoors from the inside, out.
Make Arts & Crafts
Creativity comes with the territory at HAWKs. On all of our treks and trails, our experienced educators help turn learning into doing. Explorers might make their own leaf imprint fossils, build butterfly nectar feeders, create native seed bombs, knot together sticky bracelets from found materials, or create a nature journal of their findings.
Connect With Bug and Animal Species
HAWKs programming helps take the “creepy” out of “creepy-crawlies,” by helping explorers naturally get comfortable and have fun with the ecosystem surrounding us. They’ll spend time getting up-close and personal with friendly praying mantes, learning about the role of pollinators, and gaining a more thorough understanding of everything from predators to prey out in the wild.
Make New Friends and Develop Teamwork Skills
Every trail and trek helps our explorers build cooperation and teamwork. But beyond that: HAWKs adventures help our explorers discover their voices. From communicating closely with their guides, to meeting and making lifelong friends: kids will take back with them much more than the dirt and dust on their shoes.
Learn Trail Safety and Leave No Trace Principles
Before anyone steps foot onto a trail, HAWKs explorers spend time learning a deep respect for our green spaces. They’ll understand how to safely navigate terrain, and follow “Leave No Trace” principles like planning ahead, and minimizing our impact on our natural surroundings.
Meet Our Educators!
Skillfull Educators
Our experienced educators are equipped and trained with the skills to help your explorer learn, grow, and explore through the great outdoors. Our Educators are certified in CPR and Wilderness Medicine.
Trained Naturalists
At HAWKs our educators are a passionate, dedicated team featuring botanists, environmental scientists, ecologists, wildlife experts, biologists, environmentalists, bug experts, native plant experts and early childhood educators!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Still have questions? Contact us
HAWKs uses green spaces in your selected region. The week prior to camp, educators email locations for the day or week.
If you have selected Venture Van transportation, pick up and drop off will be at the designated park. HAWKs will transport explorers to the day’s location.
No day out in nature will be exactly alike and will evolve depending on the environment, the weather, our explorers' level of hiking experience and energy that day. Check out some of our activities here (link to where the activities are on the site)
Our educators are experienced in adjusting hikes to fit a group's abilities. In general, 5-7-year-olds should expect to hike about a mile daily with 8-12-year-olds average 3-4 miles. Snack and water breaks, lunch, games, activities and exploration break up the day’s hike. Our Red Tail Treks are longer, more intensive hikes - expect distances of up to 10 miles with varying degrees of elevation. Red Tail Treks are for explorers 11+.
Our educators carry water to ensure explorers stay hydrated. Each group will have 2 10-liter water bladders to refill explorers’ water bottles throughout the day. Explorers take frequent water breaks. For younger explorers, our camp "drinking games" make staying hydrated more fun.
During July, August and September, we rotate locations under a canopy of majestic native trees that cool the temperature between 10-15 degrees, or otherwise sheltered or indoor locations. Locations are often near a body of water where explorers can cool themselves.
Please note that ALL of our water location will be shallow, no more than ankle/shin height. Swimming is not allowed.
Exploring in the rain is an incredible opportunity to see firsthand its necessity, how rain travels, and its impact on the environment around us. Plus educators can discuss the long-term effects of the rain cycle, changing rain patterns, and climate change.
We also choose locations with rain cover (e.g., covered picnic area, bridge cover, thick tree canopies) so that explorers' backpacks stay dry and explorers can take breaks from the rain. We also rent out space at nature centers or other facilities.
Explorers have a great day when they have the right gear – muddy buddies, rain suits, rain jackets and weather-proof hiking boots are required.
That said, HAWKs closely monitors the forecast and adjusts accordingly. Safety is our priority.
