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Explorer Camp Golden includes outdoor activities such as hiking, kayaking, canoeing, and biking. Each day also includes creative activities like yoga, art, and music. Campers are strongly encouraged to bring their own bike for biking day, with training wheels removed before camp.
• Ages: 5–6 years old
• Schedule: One-week sessions, Monday–Friday
• Price: One Week Price $740; Early Drop Off - Starting at 8 AM $35; After Care - Pick up 3-5:30PM $105; Avid4 Merch - Delivery at Camp Prices Vary (Tax Incl.)
Explorer Camp Golden runs as a one-week Explorer summer camp for 5- and 6-year-olds entering Kindergarten or 1st grade and has a camper to staff ratio of 5:1. The camp schedule runs Monday through Friday with camp hours from 9 AM to 3 PM and extended care available from 8 AM to 5:30 PM. Parents and campers meet staff at a consistent location daily, campers are transported to recreation areas for the day’s adventure sport, and groups return to the same facility for afternoon pick up.
Explorer Camp Golden is part of Avid4 Adventure, whose mission states that kids build confidence, make new friends, and master essential skills in activities like paddling, biking, rock climbing, and hiking. The program is backed by the Avid4 Adventure Guarantee, which promises an authentic outdoor adventure, well-trained professional staff, and increased confidence for campers, along with a customer experience for parents that exceeds expectations, with a future camp at no cost if these promises are not met. Avid4 Adventure states that its programs evolve as campers grow from age 3 to 17, offering new experiences and challenges from Pre-K through their first summer job, and that campers leave programs filled with confidence, enriched with new skills, and launched into a lifetime of outdoor adventure.
Instructors at Explorer Camp Golden are described as insatiable outdoors experts who love adventuring and working with kids, are all 18 and older, and have safety and skills training. Avid4 Adventure reports that it recruits, hires, and trains high-class outdoor educators, will be hiring approximately 500 educators across all camps, considers its educators essential workers, and is committed to paying them a fair wage. The organization states that it hires committed, experienced instructors, uses professional-caliber equipment for activities like mountain biking, kayaking, and climbing, and transports campers to local recreation areas they can return to on their own.
Avid4 Adventure describes its approach to safety as recognizing that no outdoor adventure is totally risk-free while working hard to keep kids safe. Every activity starts with a discussion about the risks involved, how to prevent them, and how to respond if something goes wrong, and the organization states that it does not “pack them up in bubble wrap” but instead gives kids knowledge and confidence to take calculated, well-communicated risks. It states that, fortified with this judgment, campers become more thoughtful, responsible risk takers and problem solvers in the outdoors and in other parts of their lives.
Avid4 Adventure is a Certified B Corp, is accredited by the American Camp Association, and has been named among Colorado Parent’s Top 5 Sports Camps. It operates under a Special Use authorization from the National Forest Service and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The leadership team includes Founder David Secunda, who is described as the former president of the Outdoor Industry Association and a 25-year veteran of the outdoor education industry.
Parent testimonials describe Avid4 Adventure as a favorite camp where a child who had never tried the activities learned to enjoy stand up paddle boarding, kayaking, and biking, including learning to ride a bike without training wheels during camp, as shared by Emily Medress in September 2023. Another parent, Molly Marienthal, stated in September 2023 that her child wanted her to join to see what she had learned each day and described the staff as mature, responsible, and excited to share their passion, calling it a well-run program where kids learn new outdoor skills. A third parent, Suzanne Dayton, reported in September 2023 that her kids had “the best time,” were active every day, still talked about camp more than a month later, and were eager to return, noting that they were learning how to enjoy what Colorado has to offer.
Last updated April 18, 2026.
• Ages: 5–6 years old
• Schedule: One-week sessions, Monday–Friday
• Price: One Week Price $740; Early Drop Off - Starting at 8 AM $35; After Care - Pick up 3-5:30PM $105; Avid4 Merch - Delivery at Camp Prices Vary (Tax Incl.)
Explorer Camp Golden runs as a one-week Explorer summer camp for 5- and 6-year-olds entering Kindergarten or 1st grade and has a camper to staff ratio of 5:1. The camp schedule runs Monday through Friday with camp hours from 9 AM to 3 PM and extended care available from 8 AM to 5:30 PM. Parents and campers meet staff at a consistent location daily, campers are transported to recreation areas for the day’s adventure sport, and groups return to the same facility for afternoon pick up.
Explorer Camp Golden is part of Avid4 Adventure, whose mission states that kids build confidence, make new friends, and master essential skills in activities like paddling, biking, rock climbing, and hiking. The program is backed by the Avid4 Adventure Guarantee, which promises an authentic outdoor adventure, well-trained professional staff, and increased confidence for campers, along with a customer experience for parents that exceeds expectations, with a future camp at no cost if these promises are not met. Avid4 Adventure states that its programs evolve as campers grow from age 3 to 17, offering new experiences and challenges from Pre-K through their first summer job, and that campers leave programs filled with confidence, enriched with new skills, and launched into a lifetime of outdoor adventure.
Instructors at Explorer Camp Golden are described as insatiable outdoors experts who love adventuring and working with kids, are all 18 and older, and have safety and skills training. Avid4 Adventure reports that it recruits, hires, and trains high-class outdoor educators, will be hiring approximately 500 educators across all camps, considers its educators essential workers, and is committed to paying them a fair wage. The organization states that it hires committed, experienced instructors, uses professional-caliber equipment for activities like mountain biking, kayaking, and climbing, and transports campers to local recreation areas they can return to on their own.
Avid4 Adventure describes its approach to safety as recognizing that no outdoor adventure is totally risk-free while working hard to keep kids safe. Every activity starts with a discussion about the risks involved, how to prevent them, and how to respond if something goes wrong, and the organization states that it does not “pack them up in bubble wrap” but instead gives kids knowledge and confidence to take calculated, well-communicated risks. It states that, fortified with this judgment, campers become more thoughtful, responsible risk takers and problem solvers in the outdoors and in other parts of their lives.
Avid4 Adventure is a Certified B Corp, is accredited by the American Camp Association, and has been named among Colorado Parent’s Top 5 Sports Camps. It operates under a Special Use authorization from the National Forest Service and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The leadership team includes Founder David Secunda, who is described as the former president of the Outdoor Industry Association and a 25-year veteran of the outdoor education industry.
Parent testimonials describe Avid4 Adventure as a favorite camp where a child who had never tried the activities learned to enjoy stand up paddle boarding, kayaking, and biking, including learning to ride a bike without training wheels during camp, as shared by Emily Medress in September 2023. Another parent, Molly Marienthal, stated in September 2023 that her child wanted her to join to see what she had learned each day and described the staff as mature, responsible, and excited to share their passion, calling it a well-run program where kids learn new outdoor skills. A third parent, Suzanne Dayton, reported in September 2023 that her kids had “the best time,” were active every day, still talked about camp more than a month later, and were eager to return, noting that they were learning how to enjoy what Colorado has to offer.
Last updated April 18, 2026.
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