Summer Camps
Get ready for adventure!
Enroll your kid into one (or more!) of our summer camps for an epic week in the wild, fueled by nature connection and survival skills! All campers will get to experience fire-making, wood splitting, plant ID, foraging, crafting, scouting, tracking, and storytelling, as well as the joys of being a kid in the summertime: sunshine, fresh air, climbing, splashing, running, and games. We have four age groups of campers: ages 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, and 13-17. We also offer a special Fire keeper Training camp for those aged 13-17 who want to be a class helper during our school year.
Please review our Summer Family Handbook before you register, for our complete set of policies and procedures.
Need a visual of all the camps offered this summer? Check out our Calendar page. Having issues signing up in MindBody? Check out our FAQ page.
Tree Frogs: Ages 4-6
About this camp
Our littlest explorers spend their week wandering the trails, forest and shoreline at Holliday Park in Indianapolis, while exercising key components of our year-round curriculum: nature connection, free play, social and emotional learning, resilience, self-empowerment and more. Practiced core routines are crafting, sit spot, scouting, free play, tracking, foraging, plant identification, storytelling, fire-starting and more.
Location: Holliday Park, 6363 Spring Mill Road, Indianapolis, IN.
Dates: June 12-16, June 19-23, July 17-21, July 24-28, July 31-August 4
Times: 9am – 3pm
Cost: $350/week
Please review our Summer Family Handbook before you register, for our complete set of policies and procedures.
All Tree Frogs sessions are full. Email academy@whitepinewilderness.org if you want to be placed on a waiting list.
Flying Squirrels: Ages 7-9
About this camp
With an extra focus on summer survival strategies specific to Indiana, we immerse ourselves in the arts of tracking, camouflage, navigation, wild edible plants, water purification, primitive hunting, and fire. Our days are filled with ancient stories, wandering, deep nature connection, comprehensive instruction, games, and fun.
New this year, Flying Squirrels campers will choose a Pathway from our popular Shikari Wilderness System to focus on during their week. Read more about it and choose your Pathway when you register.
Location: Rocky Ripple, 841 W. 53rd Street, Indianapolis, IN.
Dates: June 12-16, July 10-14
Times: 9am – 4pm
Cost: $400/week
Please review our Summer Family Handbook before you register, for our complete set of policies and procedures.
All Flying Squirrel sessions are full. Email academy@whitepinewilderness.org if you want to be placed on a waiting list.
Scouts: Ages 10-12
About this camp
Rooted in our Shikari Wilderness System, Scouts’ days are filled with ancient stories, wandering, deep nature connection, comprehensive instruction, games, and fun. Scouts are introduced to their chosen Pathway, then spend time deepening their knowledge and skillset among highly-trained instructors, while making new friends and having a blast in the sunshine and fresh air.
Scouts campers will choose a Pathway from our popular Shikari Wilderness System to focus on during their week. Read more about it and choose your Pathway when you register.
Location: Rocky Ripple, 841 W. 53rd Street, Indianapolis, IN.
Dates: June 19-23, July 17-21
Times: 9am – 4pm
Cost: $400/week
Please review our Summer Family Handbook before you register, for our complete set of policies and procedures.
All Scouts sessions are full. Email academy@whitepinewilderness.org if you want to be placed on a waiting list.
Teens: Ages 13-17
About this camp
Teens get unplugged and enjoy a wild week of the outdoors, nurturing individual growth, learning real-life skills, and making like-minded friends. Each day is full of comprehensive mentoring in primitive technology, wilderness survival and leadership development. Teens are ready to learn skills that will take them towards transformational rites-of-passage, and become part of our White Pine community.
Teens will choose a Pathway from our popular Shikari Wilderness System to focus on during their week. Read more about it and choose your Pathway when you register.
Location: Rocky Ripple, 841 W. 53rd Street, Indianapolis, IN.
Dates: June 26-30, July 24-28
Times: 9am – 4pm
Cost: $400/week
Please review our Summer Family Handbook before you register, for our complete set of policies and procedures.
Fire Keeper Training: Ages 13-17
About this training camp
Interested in being a Fire keeper? Our Fire keeper program is filled with passionate individuals who love the outdoors and enjoy learning! This is one of two trainings that are required throughout the year to be a Fire keeper. Fire keepers work alongside instructors during the school year as they train to be youth mentors. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: assisting in instruction, facilitating guilds, leading stories, and tending to the space. Fire keepers must complete training in order to enter and stay in the program. After you have been a Fire keeper for three years, you have the opportunity to be hired onto our White Pine staff as a paid mentor. This is an amazing leadership quest that isn’t available at any other nature/forest school in Indianapolis! Read more about our Fire keeper program here.
Location: Rocky Ripple, 841 W. 53rd Street, Indianapolis, IN.
Dates: June 5-9
Times: 9am – 4pm
Cost: $400/week
Please review our Summer Family Handbook before you register, for our complete set of policies and procedures.