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Programs
Wildwood Outdoor Education Center
provides outdoor education, team building, and individual skill
development to children and adults from the Kansas City metro
area. Wildwood is unique, in almost every aspect of being an
outdoor education center and a residential camp setting.
Wildwood uses current best practices in: outdoor education,
adventure education and residential camps.
More than 5,500 children and 500
adults experience Wildwood each year. Wildwood programs
include:
Wildwood offers the opportunity to
build esteem, develop essential life and interpersonal skills
and maintain/increase academic knowledge in a safe
environment—and have fun doing it!
At Wildwood,
outdoor education, experiential education and adventure
education is serious business. Our outstanding programs are one
of a kind in the region and utilized by schools, businesses and
families throughout the region. We attribute much of our
success to our dedicated, professional staff. Full-time
directors live at Wildwood year round. This commitment to the
Wildwood Experience ensures the highest quality
programming and facilities.
Our
instructors receive extensive training in outdoor education,
group facilitation, safety and first aid. Certified teachers
and college students in the field of education, recreation,
social welfare and other youth related fields, join the staff
during the operating months of programming.
For more
information about one of the Wildwood programs contact the
Wildwood office at 913-757-4500.
User Group Manual
The
User Group
Manual (link is PDF
format) is designed to provide you with
information and practices to keep you safe and the
facility a safe place for your group to enjoy.
Plan your visit to Wildwood!
Here is a
“suggested” list of things to bring.
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Outdoor School
The Outdoor School Program was started in 1963
by Marjorie Powell Allen and Bob Allen. They
dreamed of developing a program that uses the
outdoors as a
teacher . . . |
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Corporate Challenge
Wildwood’s Corporate Challenge Program has
provided team building experiences for adults
from the Greater Kansas City area and companies
from the USA . . . |
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Adventure Challenge
Wildwood has been a leader in team building and
ropes course programming for twenty-five years.
Wildwood offers over 30 challenges located
throughout twenty
acres . . . |
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Summer Learning
For 25 years Wildwood has offered children from
the greater Kansas City metropolitan area an
opportunity to participate in this 5 day
residential program . . . |
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Summer Adventure
The Summer Adventure Program is Wildwood’s
traditional summer camp program for girls and
boys ages 8 to 14. The residential program
is a week long program . . . |
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Women of Wildwood
The WOW Program is a 5 day residential program
for girls only. Give your daughter an
opportunity to experience the outdoors with
other girls and have a weeks worth of
fun . . . |
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Leadership Camp - CANCELLED - |
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Wildwood Retreat Experience
A retreat
is a deliberate withdrawal from the stresses and
distractions of daily life designed to empower
groups and/or individuals. It gives the group
or individual an opportunity to get away from
the noises, pressures and hectic pace of one’s
daily life. |
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Testimonials
Read what Wildwood's former staff and customers have
to say about their experiences at Wildwood. |
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Camper Email, Photos, and
News Using
Bunk 1
Want to maintain contact with a camper?
Register with Bunk 1 and they will provide you
with email, photos, and news.
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