Women’s Wilderness Youth Outdoor Education Programs
1206 Euclid Ave, Boulder, CO 80302
About
Women’s Wilderness Youth Outdoor Education Programs offers courses, workshops, and activities that include hiking, backpacking, and rock climbing. The program includes summer opportunities for youth, such as a 9 day backpacking trip for high school girls.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: Includes a 9 day backpacking trip for high school girls
• Price: A $2,500 donation could cover two full scholarships for a 9 day backpacking trip for high school girls. A $500 donation could cover annual maintenance on one of the program’s three passenger vans. A $50 donation could cover the cost of s’more supplies for 25 girls.
Women’s Wilderness Youth Outdoor Education Programs is part of Women’s Wilderness, a nonprofit organization founded in 1998 in Boulder, Colorado. Its mission is to create power in the outdoors, and it collaborates continuously in partnership and community. Women’s Wilderness is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and is also a licensed child care provider in the State of Colorado.
The organization is committed to creating space for girls, women, and non-binary people of all ages and backgrounds to find their place, their voice, and their power in the outdoors. It is one of the first and still one of the only gender-informed organizations providing direct outdoor experiences in the world, and it takes a gender-expansive and intersectional approach to leading people in the outdoors. Courses are intentionally designed to be fun, empowering and challenging outdoor experiences, and they prioritize creating safe environments where participants can grow stronger technically, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Courses feature shared leadership, collaboration, emotional support, and making conscious choices that honor participants and their lived experience.
All backcountry instructors are Wilderness First Responder certified and trained in creating safe experiences for girls, women, and LGBTQ+ folks, and the organization strives to ensure people with shared identities are leading courses, such as women leading girls, LGBTQ+ people leading queer courses, and BIPOC people leading BIPOC programs. The program offers affinity spaces such as TRAILBLAZERS for BIPOC and OUTDOORG.I.R.L.S. for girls who identify as immigrant, refugee, asylee, or newcomer, and it commits to anti-oppressive and anti-racist practices. Programs are conducted on land that was once stewarded and inhabited by indigenous people of the Ute, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Goshute, Shoshone, Apache, Pueblo, and Zuni tribes.
Among participants, 93% reported feeling more confident and capable of accomplishing difficult things, 88% reported feeling better able to understand their needs and work towards getting their needs met, 92% reported feeling stronger and proud of their physical abilities, and 89% reported believing it is important to care for the planet.
Last updated May 1, 2026.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
• Schedule: Includes a 9 day backpacking trip for high school girls
• Price: A $2,500 donation could cover two full scholarships for a 9 day backpacking trip for high school girls. A $500 donation could cover annual maintenance on one of the program’s three passenger vans. A $50 donation could cover the cost of s’more supplies for 25 girls.
Women’s Wilderness Youth Outdoor Education Programs is part of Women’s Wilderness, a nonprofit organization founded in 1998 in Boulder, Colorado. Its mission is to create power in the outdoors, and it collaborates continuously in partnership and community. Women’s Wilderness is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and is also a licensed child care provider in the State of Colorado.
The organization is committed to creating space for girls, women, and non-binary people of all ages and backgrounds to find their place, their voice, and their power in the outdoors. It is one of the first and still one of the only gender-informed organizations providing direct outdoor experiences in the world, and it takes a gender-expansive and intersectional approach to leading people in the outdoors. Courses are intentionally designed to be fun, empowering and challenging outdoor experiences, and they prioritize creating safe environments where participants can grow stronger technically, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Courses feature shared leadership, collaboration, emotional support, and making conscious choices that honor participants and their lived experience.
All backcountry instructors are Wilderness First Responder certified and trained in creating safe experiences for girls, women, and LGBTQ+ folks, and the organization strives to ensure people with shared identities are leading courses, such as women leading girls, LGBTQ+ people leading queer courses, and BIPOC people leading BIPOC programs. The program offers affinity spaces such as TRAILBLAZERS for BIPOC and OUTDOORG.I.R.L.S. for girls who identify as immigrant, refugee, asylee, or newcomer, and it commits to anti-oppressive and anti-racist practices. Programs are conducted on land that was once stewarded and inhabited by indigenous people of the Ute, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Goshute, Shoshone, Apache, Pueblo, and Zuni tribes.
Among participants, 93% reported feeling more confident and capable of accomplishing difficult things, 88% reported feeling better able to understand their needs and work towards getting their needs met, 92% reported feeling stronger and proud of their physical abilities, and 89% reported believing it is important to care for the planet.
Last updated May 1, 2026.
Is this your business? There is no cost, but you will be asked to sign up or log in.