Outdoor Education & Immersion Programs

Custom overnight outdoor education & immersion programs aimed at inspiring and educating students through rich experiences in the outdoors.

Teambuilding | Leadership | Adventure | Creativity | & more

Looking to deepen your students’ outdoor education experiences? Let us use our knowledge to transform the world around us into your students’ classroom.

About The Experience

Join us this upcoming Fall or Spring for an immersive outdoor education experience where the classroom and the outdoors are inseparable. Fully customizable, multi-day itineraries tailored to your group’s preferences and your students’ needs, We use your criteria and our selection of sites to create a personalized program that will create space for connection with the natural world and fellow students as well as growth that will last beyond our program. Due to the natural variance in groups, as well as the vast array of options at our disposal, no two school programs that we design are exactly alike.

Our guides are experts in the unique natural and cultural history of Central Oregon. We are experienced in teaching to all levels of expertise, all age groups, and all backgrounds. Our program together will seldom be stationary – at Wanderlust Tours we believe that getting out and experiencing the landscape is the best way to learn! Under our guidance and instruction, your group may hike through the mighty High Cascades, explore the hidden wonders of a darkness-filled lava tube buried deep beneath our feet, or paddle across crystalline lake waters with 3000 year old Douglas Firs poking out from their depths. Our evenings together will be filled with team-building activities, games, and story-telling between filling our bellies with hot-cooked meals and roasting s’mores over an open fire. The nights will have us learning the constellations and the ancient stories from which they originate.

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Weather: Tours run rain or shine. With that said, if conditions at our snowshoe location are less than enjoyable, we will pivot our adventure to an immersive hiking tour where your kids will learn all about Central Oregon’s incredible geology and volcanic history!

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations prior to one week before the tour date are eligible for a full refund. Cancellations within a week are eligible for separate future credits from Shredder and Wanderlust Tours.

Sample Itineraries

Outdoor Adventure:

My notes:

• Spring and Fall - Shoulder season, kids in school

• Paddling, Hiking, Clear Lake, Maybe caving if / when we get it back, GPS?,  Smith?

• 2 night, 3 day as a min ideally (but fully customizable) Max 5 days, 4 nights

• Day programming (non overnight) is an option to0 for local schools

• Coulddd do tent camping but its shoulder season so weather is a bigger factor

• Marketing different avenues to diff schools - arts based, team building, catholic/ jesuit schools (Cairos style/ retreat style)

• Price range to give people ideas but nothing too specific. 

• 3 day 2 night at Suttle w/ 26 total (chaperons included) would be about $350 per night per person

• More educational leaning on the tours, weaving concepts together, overall theme for the weekend, lessons in between activities, interactive lessons, team building, nature-connecting, leadership, building compassion, community building

• Re-brand/ market away from outdoor schools, we’re not an outdoor school.