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Sly Park Environmental Education Center offers students the chance to hike through lush forests, conduct hands-on experiments in bubbling streams, and gaze at the star-filled night sky. Activities also include a Photo Tour slide show, students identifying native plants, and challenging themselves on an indoor climbing wall.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Visiting students reside at Sly Park for three, four, or five days.
Since 1970, Sly Park Environmental Education Center has operated as an outdoor education center and has been at the forefront of outdoor education for over 50 years. Credentialed teachers offer lessons and hands-on experiences that use experiential and place-based learning. The program uses a Science 5E Instructional model with live instruction, hyper-docs, videos, digital resources, and short self-guided activities between lessons called Home Investigations. Sly Park Environmental Education Center states that its mission is to cultivate environmental literacy through experiential and place-based learning and to support the academic, social, and emotional growth of participants in ways that enrich understanding of California's Next Generation Science Standards and Environmental Principles & Concepts.
Sly Park Environmental Education Center is an accredited California Resident Outdoor Learning Center, and its programs are certified by the California Outdoor School Association. The program aligns with California Next Generation Science Standards and California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts. It was founded through a partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and the Sacramento County Office of Education and is a permittee of the Eldorado National Forest. The center states that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. The Sly Park Director is Jeremy Meyers.
Last updated July 5, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Visiting students reside at Sly Park for three, four, or five days.
Since 1970, Sly Park Environmental Education Center has operated as an outdoor education center and has been at the forefront of outdoor education for over 50 years. Credentialed teachers offer lessons and hands-on experiences that use experiential and place-based learning. The program uses a Science 5E Instructional model with live instruction, hyper-docs, videos, digital resources, and short self-guided activities between lessons called Home Investigations. Sly Park Environmental Education Center states that its mission is to cultivate environmental literacy through experiential and place-based learning and to support the academic, social, and emotional growth of participants in ways that enrich understanding of California's Next Generation Science Standards and Environmental Principles & Concepts.
Sly Park Environmental Education Center is an accredited California Resident Outdoor Learning Center, and its programs are certified by the California Outdoor School Association. The program aligns with California Next Generation Science Standards and California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts. It was founded through a partnership between the U.S. Forest Service and the Sacramento County Office of Education and is a permittee of the Eldorado National Forest. The center states that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. The Sly Park Director is Jeremy Meyers.
Last updated July 5, 2026.
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