The great outdoors
await you.
Experience the adventure of a lifetime.
Through exposure to multiple geographic settings, wilderness experiences, and opportunities for community service, participants learn valuable skills that will serve them for years to come. Participants travel in co-ed cohorts of 13 youth supported by one male and one female trip lead. Opportunities for backpacking, hiking, rock climbing, canoeing, rafting, biking and fishing are included in many trips, all while building lifelong memories with new best friends.
Check out our 2024 & 2025 experiences below
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FINANCIAL NOTE: All trips include a nominal registration fee. While we will bill families for the remaining balance of a trip, we only ask that families pay what they can. Families therefore are not required to pay anything beyond the registration fee if they are financially unable. We do this to offset the high costs of sending youth on these types of adventures. Money raised during the off season goes toward covering the cost of each trip.
Monthly Family Meetings
Wednesday Night Family Meetings
Virtually from 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Be sure to join one of our Wednesday Night Family Info Sessions. We’ll send the link following your interest form submission.
Session discussions include programming updates, trip details, and answers to any questions you have.
1-Day Rock Climbing & Hiking
Activities: Rock climbing, hiking, canoeing, team-building, camp-fire cookouts and more!
Location: Mineral Wells State Park, TX
Date/Time: By appointment (through group registration of 6 or more)
Age Cohorts: 12+
Costs: $35 registration fee
What’s Included: Gear, food, water, transportation, licensed guides, and a heck of a good time!
Getting familiar with paddle strokes before heading down the river.
Early Explorers Adventure, AR
Overview: For youth new to the outdoors. Campers stay in the bunkhouse while spending their days out on a series of different adventures - canoeing, swimming, fishing, horseback riding, arts-&-crafts, ziplining and more!
Location: Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas
Dates: October 14-17 (Fall Break 2024); June 16-20, 2025; or October 13-17 (Fall Break 2025)
Age Cohorts: 12-14 (rising 7th-9th graders. Open to mature 11-yr olds.)
Costs: $75 registration fee for individual campers
What’s Included: Everything but clothing and toiletries
Expeditionists Adventure, AR
Overview: For youth with either some outdoor experience or more of an adventurous side. Campers are out on trail for 3-4 of their 5-night trip. This trip includes more time paddling the river, fishing, camping out under the stars, and enjoying food cooked over an open fire.
Location: Ouachita National Forest & Buffalo National River, AR
Dates: March 10-15 (Spring Break 2025); & October 15-19 (Fall Break 2025); or by group registration of 6 or more
Age Cohorts: 13-16 (Rising 8th-10th graders)
Costs: $75 registration fee for individual campers
What’s Included: Everything but clothing and toiletries
The awe-inspiring views of Valles Caldera National Preserve do NOT disappoint.
Expeditionists Adventure, NM
Overview: For youth with some outdoor experience or just a seriously adventurous side and a willingness to carry 40lb packs. Campers will backpack in Pecos National Forest, just outside of Santa Fe. Additionally, they’ll spend time in Santa Fe, NM, check out the American Indian Pueblos of Bandelier National Monument, and raft the Rio Grande River between Taos and Santa Fe.
Location: Santa Fe, NM area
Dates: June 23-July 2, 2025
Age Cohorts: 14-17
Costs: $150 registration fee for individual campers
What’s Included: Everything but clothing and toiletries
A bit of the flats before heading up the mountain.
CO Adventure for Global Leaders
Overview: BFor Juniors and Seniors with an adventurous side and a willingness to push themselves hard over the course of 5-6 days on the Colorado Trail. This trip includes high alpine backpacking, rafting sections of the Arkansas River and day trips to Salida, Buena Vista and/or Great Sand Dunes National Park.
Location: Sections of the CO trail outside of Durango, CO; as well as Cortez/ Four-Corners area, and Great Sand Dunes National Pk.
Dates: July 14 - 25, 2025
Age Cohorts: 16-18
Costs: $175
What’s Included: Everything but clothing and toiletries.
Learner Outcomes
Camping Skills
Campers will learn important skills such as trip planning, map reading / compass use, gear maintenance, first aid basics, leave-no-trace etiquette, basics of rock climbing, rafting and basic survival skills.
Character Development
Campers will set and monitor individual goals focused on self-awareness & self-management skills, as well as collaboration focused on breaking down barriers of difference as a way to build empathy and understanding of others. We use circle-up time at the beginning and end of each day to reflect on the celebrations and challenges of the day as well as in the moment reflective practices focused on supporting mental awareness of self.
Cultural Experience
During the initial leg of the journey east, campers will participate in a trip to the Lorraine Motel and the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN. The guided experience will provide context to the history of the movement, and the continued injustices that people of color have faced throughout America’s history - including the modern era. On the return leg of the journey, campers will visit the Equal Justice Initiative.
The community service element of the trip is currently TBD.
Interested in our financial model?
Roam Wild is founded on the notion that all youth, regardless of financial means, should be able to participate in the joys of summer camp. Therefore, we work hard during our off-season to ensure we raise enough money to cover any costs for families - you pay what you can beyond a small registration fee.