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Green River Preserve
Cedar Mountain, North Carolina
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828-698-8828
301 Green River Road
Cedar Mountain, North Carolina 28718
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CAMPER AGES: 6 - 18
TYPE OF CAMP: Overnight/Sleepaway. Residential
CAMPER GENDER(S): Coed Campers.
BRIEF CAMP DESCRIPTION: The signature of Green River Preserve's program is the mentor hike. Led by mentor naturalists, campers explore forest, streams, and hidden valleys of the Preserve. Filled with adventure, discovery, and a heightened appreciation of the natural world, campers learn to use all of their senses as they play under waterfalls, crawl into caves, explore archaeological sites, track wildlife, and taste edible plants.
CAMP INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES OFFERED:
Theater, Music/Band, Fine Arts/Crafts, Soccer, Swimming, Waterfront/Aquatics, Team Sports, Science, Academics, Adventure, Travel, Wilderness/Nature, and more. Green River Preserve Is A Coed Summer Camp Connecting Children With Nature.
Mountain Biking
Archery
Whitewater Canoeing
Rock Climbing
Hiking
Backpacking
Camping
Farm To Table Program
CAMP LOCATION: Located on a 3,400 acre private wildlife preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina and adjacent to DuPont State Forest, this extraordinary natural setting has inspired sustainability leadership since 1988. Please visit our website for videos and photos of Green River Preserve.
CAMP FACILITIES: Green River Preserve base camp is comprised of the main lodge which houses our dining hall, theater and music rooms, pottery studio, artifacts collection, and camp store.
Additional facilities include: the Health Hut, Craft Corner, Cordwood cottage Painting studio, exterior and interior climbing walls and postman's walk, Pioneer Cabin (crafts and cooking), mountain biking shop, woodworking facility, archery range, BB skeet range, yoga gazebo, creative writing gazebo, canoe docking, swimming lake, and spring fed fishing pond. Our farm to table program is supplied by our camp organic farm.
Campers live in cabin groups of up to six, with their respective counselors. Each cabin is a duplex joined by a central bathroom. Campers sleep on bunkbeds.
CAMP PROGRAM INFO: A wide variety of activities such as nature, hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, kayaking, canoeing, outdoor skills, environmental science, fly fishing, music, guitar, art, theater, pottery, woodworking, archery, and BB skeet foster life time learning skills.
Unique to our activities is our partnership with the Flat Rock Playhouse, the state theater of North Carolina, for our residential theater camp; an artist-in-residency program with nationally acclaimed artists; access to DuPont State Recreational Forest for mountain biking; and a partnership with Trout Unlimited for a their 'Summer on the Fly' summer camp fly fishing program.
Green River Preserve's program and activities offer quality, intentional, experiential learning opportunities that spark diversity of thought and creativity.
The signature of Green River Preserve's program is the mentor hike. Led by mentor naturalists, campers explore forest, streams, and hidden valleys of the Preserve. Filled with adventure, discovery, and a heightened appreciation of the natural world, campers learn to use all of their senses as they play under waterfalls, crawl into caves, explore archaeological sites, track wildlife, and taste edible plants.
Green River Preserve's high school expedition trips are adventures and community building programs designed to develop outdoor skills, teamwork, and leadership opportunities. GRP offers four different expedition trips: Blue Ridge, a two week backpacking and whitewater canoe trip in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina Mountains; Outer Banks, a two week backpacking and sea kayaking rip on the Outer Banks of North Carolina; Trail Blazers, a three week leadership service trip including a backpacking and canoe trip; and Western Expeditions, a three week backpacking and white water rafting trip in the San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado.
The hallmark of Green River Preserve is to teach young people to be better stewards of the land. Since 1988, sustainability has been woven into the very fabric of Green River Preserve. Our farm to table program is just one of our many efforts in sustainability leadership. Our partnership with Leave no Trace provides campers with guidelines for low impact camping. A conservation easement with Carolina Mountain Land Trust safeguards the future of the Preserve's land for generations of campers. Green River Preserve is a GREEN AMERICA APPROVED business.
CAMP LEADERSHIP CIT/LIT PROGRAMS: Trail Builders Expedition
YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMS: S.E.E. - School of Environmental Education - residential programs for school groups.
OTHER CAMP INFO: Missy and Sandy Schenck are the Executive Directors of Green River Preserve. Each camp season, staff are interviewed by the directors and carefully selected with regard to maturity, sensitivity, intellectual achievement, and integrity as role models. Our staff is trained to ensure all campers get the rich and rewarding experience they should expect from Green River Preserve. Our camper to staff ratio is 3 to 1.
CAMP SESSION DATES & FEES:
Green River Preserve is a safe and comfortable place, both physically and emotionally. Purposefully small, our enrollment is limited to 104 campers per session. Green River Preserve offers 1,2, and 3 week summer camp sessions for campers in the rising 2nd through 9th grades and high school expedition programs for rising 9th graders through college freshmen.
Summer camp tuition fees range from $2,250 - $3,500 and high school expedition fees range from $2,700-$3,900.
The 2014 summer camp season opens on June 8th and ends on August 8th.
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