Teen EcoAdventure Camp
General registration for summer 2025 will open in spring 2025.
This 10-day outdoor adventure camp explores the changing environment and how this connects to a most basic and delicious part of our lives–food! Activities include backcountry camping, hiking in forests, beaches, and alpine, berry or kelp harvest and preserving, learning about salmon fishing, tidepooling, local edible plant uses, and having fun in the kitchen making a range of homemade foods. Participants will also kayak or snorkel, weather dependent. Throughout all this, participants will learn about how changes to different ecosystems affect the food we eat and how our food choices affect the communities around us.
Ages: 13-15
Coastal Studies offers full and half scholarships for youth to participate in our camps. Apply now!
Price
To increase accessibility to our programs, Coastal Studies offers a sliding-scale payment option for our overnight camps. Please choose the option to pay the full cost of the program if you are able, and select the low-cost option if that is the right financial fit for your family. For questions about the tier system, contact our Program Director.
Full cost: $1500
Low-cost: $1000
The cost of the program includes participants’ water taxis, food, and lodging.
Some travel funding for youth from Kachemak Bay/Lower Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound, the Kodiak Archipelago, and Alaska Peninsula is available. Please contact Katie Gavenus or 907-235-1974 for more information.
Duration
July 11th-20th, 2025
This is a 10-day program.
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This camp will likely include a “Gear Check” meeting the night before, or the morning of camp.
Teen EcoAdventure Camp begins and ends in Homer, but includes time spent in Kachemak Bay State Park, Seldovia and the Kasitsna Bay Research Lab. No prior camping experience is necessary.
A few weeks from the camp's start date, you'll receive an introductory email from the program leader detailing packing lists and boat times. At minimum, your teen will need to bring a sleeping bag, rain gear, good walking shoes, a water bottle, a day pack, and ideally a backpacking pack. Please consult our staff before buying new gear.
If you chose to just pay the deposit when you booked, you can stop by the office, contact our bookkeeper, or mail a check to pay the balance due. This must be done before the first day of camp. If not paid by then, the credit card on file will be charged the remaining balance.
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Cancellations made 30 days or more prior to your registered session's start will receive a full refund minus a $25 processing fee.
Cancellations made 15-29 days prior to the start date will receive a 50% refund minus a $50 processing fee.
Cancellations made 14 days or fewer prior to the start date do not receive a refund.
Sudden Camp Cancellation Policy: If you need to cancel due to an emergency or the participant cannot stay for the full camp after the camp has already started, please contact us and we can discuss options around a partial refund. Examples include but are not limited to: family medical emergency, participant experiences an illness and needs to go home, camp cannot meet pre-disclosed participants behavioral health needs. This Sudden Camp Cancellation Policy does not apply when there is a violation to our Behavior Policy, section “Right to Revoke Access.”
If you cancel your reservation, that spot will be offered to someone on our waitlist. We do not accept recommendations as to who should fill your cancellation.
