Nature Camps for Kids Near Marin County

WildCare Wildlife Camp offers nature-based camps where children take part in week-long sessions focused on wildlife and the natural world. The program runs invigorating, week-long nature-based camps for children in Summer, Winter and Spring. • Ages:...

Hummingbirds’ Collaborative School Summer Camps include outdoor water play, hikes in nature, craft-making, cooking together, movement games, songs, daily storytelling, puppet shows, and picnic lunches. The camps take place at Hummingbirds’...

Camp SHINE offers hands-on time with farm animals, including collecting eggs, feeding the animals, grooming mini ponies, and caring for chickens, horses, and a bunny. Campers take part in horseback riding, trail riding, group horse lessons, floor...

John Muir Mountain Day Camp includes exploring nature trails, painting, baking sourdough bread, journaling as John Muir did, and discovering local plants and animals. At a typical weekly session, campers enjoy daily activities with National Park...

Oak Heart Forest Program includes time for children to explore trails, build forts, climb trees, and engage in extended periods of free play. The program also offers creating potions, using natural dyes and pigments, wet felting, painting, sewing,...

American Canyon Parks Foundation Environmental Education and Community Nature Programs offers activities such as Wetlands Trail Clean Up Day, Slow Stroll at Wetlands, themed hikes, Naturalist Walks, and Wetlands Coffee Mornings. The program also...

REAP Climate Center Youth Programs include hands-on activities such as watering, planting, trimming, sorting seeds, spreading wood chips, habitat restoration, tree planting, turning compost, and general beautification and maintenance. Participants...

American Canyon Parks Foundation Environmental Education & Outdoor Programs includes activities such as Wetlands Trail Clean Up Day, Slow Stroll at Wetlands, Discovery Days, Naturalist Walks, StoryWalk, and Watershed Explorers. The program also...

Marin Treks offers half day natural science camps, scout programs, after school programs, preschool programs, classroom programs, and class field trips. The program also provides live reptiles programs for schools, preschools, scout groups, and...

All About Owls Educational Programs offers educational presentations that include information on owl natural history and behavior. The program provides presentations with live owls and offers rodent control presentations. It also covers nest boxes...

Petaluma Ranch Camp includes activities such as swimming, hiking to nearby parklands, practicing wilderness skills, and spending time with farm animals. Campers may learn how to track animals, identify plants, learn about domesticated animals, and...

WildCare Wildlife Camp includes live animal visits from rescued wildlife ambassadors, animal-themed games, nature crafts, and nature excursions. Some sessions include off-site excursions to Phoenix Lake, McInnis Park, Blackie’s Pasture, and McNears...

Berkeley Forest School offers outdoor-based programming that takes place under the redwoods and includes a preschool family campout at Point Reyes. The program focuses on children and their families spending time together in natural settings. •...

Green Stuff Summer Camp is an award-winning, active hands-on science day camp where campers learn about plant adaptations and habitat diversity, collect seeds in the Crops of the World Garden, grow their own plants, and examine plants under...

Marin GreenPlay Camp offers science-based, place-based experiences in nature that include developmentally appropriate play, extreme sports, restorative stewardship, and other hands-on outdoor activities. Campers take part in native plant restoration...

Urban Adamah Youth & Families Camps and Programs offers youth camps that include play, planting, singing, farm chores and responsibilities, and project-based nature and art activities. Campers take part in gardening, feeding chickens, collecting...

Neptune Nature School offers a completely outdoor preschool, TK, and kindergarten program where children spend their day in exploration, play, negotiation, art, and social-emotional development. Daily activities include a morning meeting, music and...

Art & Nature Camp includes a daily morning circle, music, storytelling, movement, snack time, lunch, a short nature walk, an art activity, hands-on crafts, and nature exploration. The program is for a small group, with a limit of 10 children and 3...

Call of the Wild Camps - Outdoor Nature Camps offers outdoor day camps where children hike easy to moderate trails, explore nature, and use nature as a living classroom. Campers take part in activities such as rock scrambling, tree climbing, nature...

KIDS for the BAY Summer Camp includes activities such as exploring meadows and redwood groves, hiking along creeks, and discovering insects in ponds. Campers watch river otters swimming, birds feeding, and turtles sunbathing in lakes, and they visit...