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 Our unique Boys and Girls Camps offer a totally natural living experience and exceptional education. All campers and instructors live in tipis and rustic shelters. Campers learn to make what they need for wilderness comfort. We are here to provide Basic Living and Environmental Education experiences which help boys and girls become balanced people.
All of our Summer Boys and Girls Camps activities promote positive growth through fun and exciting learning opportunities. We also provide quiet time for reflection where youth can gain a dee per understanding of themselves and their relationships with others. Turtle Island Preserve offers an excellent outdoor classroom where hands on activities breathe life into Native American and Colonial history, as well as the natural sciences. We believe learning should be fun.
Our Summer Camps provide youth with a strong experiential foundation and motivation for cultural and scientific studies. Summer camp is "our gift to the world". Over 15 professional educators-not just college students as is standard in summer camps, but a clan of extraordinary, unique individuals are chosen for their excellence in their field. These professionals come together to create a phenomenal community with a staff to student ratio of better than 1:2.
Turtle Island Boys and Girls Camp offers a totally unique living experience and exceptional education. All campers and instructors live in tipis or Adirondack style shelters. Each camper will be under the guidance of professional staff who have the integrity, personality and outdoor living skills necessary to make a lasting, positive impression on every camper's life. Living close to nature brings understanding, appreciation and love for our environment. We explore our essential needs and learn to fulfill them together.
Turtle Island Preserve lies in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, only eight miles east of Boone, North Carolina. Majestic forest, clear streams and diverse flora and fauna make the 1,000 acre preserve an ideal site for inspirational learning. This beautiful Preserve, coupled with the camps quality leadership, profoundly enriches each campers life.
Camp Staff
Our staff includes instructors and counselors that are a clan of extraordinary, unique individuals. We are a diverse group of quality experiential educators, environmental enthusiasts, and ancient skills instructors. Our staff will challenge campers to extend their physical, emotional, and intellectual capabilities in a nuturing and natural environment. Click here to read more about the staff.
 A Camper's Day
A day may include a playful hike to a waterfall or beautiful vistas, creating unique crafts of function and beauty, gathering wood for kitchen and campfire programs, playing games of interaction and laughter, and quiet time to take notice of our natural surroundings. Our day may end around a campfire sharing stories, songs and dancing.
Program Activities
- Hiking
- Horse drawn carriage rides
- Morning Watch ceremony
- Traditional woodworking
- Goat milking
- Blacksmithing
- Spinning, weaving, felting
- Bark craft
- Solo vigil
- Cooking on a fire
- Edible plants
- Tracking
- Trapping
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Natural dying
- Storytelling
- Blowgun making
- Bow and arrow making
- Spoon and spatula carving
- Burning out a bowl
- Stone working
- Tanning skins
- Making containers
- Responsibility awareness
- Tipi pitching
- Journal writing
- One match and no match fires
- Basket weaving
- Communication exercises
- Pottery
- Gardening
- Preserving food
- Campfire programs
- Group initiatives
- Swimming hole dips
- Night walking
- Bird study
- Natural material gathering
- Gourd crafts
- Making music
- Making musical instruments
- Harnessing a horse
- Leather work
- First aid and safety
- Heightened consciousness games
- Building primitive shelters
- Medicinal plants
- Sled rides
- Visiting elders
- Reptile study
- Gathering safe water
- Log house construction
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