Our many wilderness adventure summer camp programs offer a variety of skills and experiences for students age 6 to 18 years who come and stay with us for one or two-weeks camps during June, July, or August. While each program is centered around a special activity, such as rock-climbing, canoeing, caving, biking, timber framing, or wild crafts, all programs share a core curriculum that includes living with simplified personal needs and belongings, putting the needs of the group before those of the individual, and eating locally grown food that is prepared from basic ingredients each day and cooked over an open fire. Students live, work, and adventure together in small groups with several teachers for each group.

Our spring and fall semester programs combine the academic rigor of a traditional school with the physical, social, and spiritual growth of life on a wilderness expedition. The New Hampshire-Vermont semester takes students on a 600-mile long trip by ski and canoe, from our base camp in southern New Hampshire, across the state of Vermont to the Canadian border and back again. During this semester the romance of a ski track and the song of a paddle, combined with the stroke of your pen, provides an incredibly unique educational experience that often changes the course of students lives. The New Hampshire-Ecuador semester is an immersion into the cultural, economic and social lives of two contrasting parts of the world: New England in the Northern Hemisphere and the Republic of Ecuador in the Southern Hemisphere. Through social interaction with the different cultures, paddling Amazonian rivers, trekking in the jungle and exploring snow capped volcanoes students develop a sense of place and purpose as an individual within the world. Read the latest news from the current semester program here.

Our customized school group programs offer day and week programs for both public and private schools. Some schools come to our base camp in Marlow for day visits throughout the academic year, while others join us once each season to spend a week on an outdoor wilderness expedition that is customized to meet the needs of each group of students while challenging them physically and emotionally to learn to work together in powerful new ways.

Our base camp village and farm are nestled in the high country between the watersheds of the Ashuelot and Cold Rivers. We are blessed with 75 acres of forests, fields, cliffs, streams and ponds all adjacent to a large wilderness area. Here time has stopped its fast pace. Gathering water from a spring, cooking on an open fire, and reading by lantern light are some examples of the immersion students will undergo while with us. Our energy comes from the sun. Footpaths lead to many magical places in the forest. While on the trail, students live in tents, in shelters they have created, or sometimes under a starry sky! Vegetables from our garden, eggs from our chickens, bread from our neighborhood bakery and wild-harvested foods, when in season, supplement our diet. Students are involved in the preparation and clean up of all meals and are responsible for helping with all aspects of camp and farm life, including care of the horse, sheep, chickens and cows.

As you will see, Kroka is many things to many people: a nature camp, a farm camp, an environmental education center, a sustainable living community, a nature crafts school, a wilderness high school, a whitewater paddling and rock-climbing center, a home away from home! Where will you fit in?