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Wilderness Works offers Day Camp, City Camp, Summer Camp, Core Camps, and Field Camp, along with activities such as zipping on the zip line at Camp Glisson and a Georgia Tech Climbing Tour. Participants have hiked over 50 miles from Tennessee to Cherokee on the Appalachian Trail, spent a week on Cumberland Island seeing the ocean for the first time and observing 15 different species of animal life, and learned how to ride a bicycle at City Camp.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
Wilderness Works has kept outdoor adventure experiences available for at-risk Atlanta children since 1997 and continues providing year-round enrichment, experiential education, and character development for Atlanta children, especially at-risk and economically disadvantaged children. Its mission states that Wilderness Works provides disadvantaged children a safe and enriching alternative with friends and experiences that last a lifetime. The organization gives highest priority to homeless children or those facing significant economic disadvantage and equips youth with multiple years of program continuity through a series of graduated programs allowing children to develop between the years of eight and eighteen. Wilderness Works states that continuity is the watchword so that a child can “grow up” in Wilderness Works and that it complements school calendars by operating especially on weekends, school holidays, and during summer months. The program describes itself as an indispensable community resource that channels children, especially at-risk or economically disadvantaged children, toward a bright and productive future and notes that it delivers cognitive, emotional, physical, and social developmental experiences in safe and nurturing environments largely in nature and the outdoors. Wilderness Works identifies six core values that guide its mission: Experiential Education, Character Development, Cultural Enrichment, Health & Nutrition, Community, and Ecological Awareness. Wilderness Works is a federally registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, and in 2018 documentary filmmaker Michiel Thomas followed the program into the high mountains of Colorado, chronicling the experience of three boys from tough life circumstances and how the transformational power of nature impacted their lives. Testimonials from participants describe looking forward to being reunited with friends at City Camp, overcoming a fear of heights with the Wilderness Works Girls Core Group at the Georgia Tech Climbing Tour, learning to ride a bicycle at City Camp and riding every weekend, hiking over 50 miles on the Appalachian Trail, spending a week on Cumberland Island and seeing the ocean for the first time, and enjoying the zip line at Camp Glisson as a favorite summer experience.
Last updated April 24, 2026.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
Wilderness Works has kept outdoor adventure experiences available for at-risk Atlanta children since 1997 and continues providing year-round enrichment, experiential education, and character development for Atlanta children, especially at-risk and economically disadvantaged children. Its mission states that Wilderness Works provides disadvantaged children a safe and enriching alternative with friends and experiences that last a lifetime. The organization gives highest priority to homeless children or those facing significant economic disadvantage and equips youth with multiple years of program continuity through a series of graduated programs allowing children to develop between the years of eight and eighteen. Wilderness Works states that continuity is the watchword so that a child can “grow up” in Wilderness Works and that it complements school calendars by operating especially on weekends, school holidays, and during summer months. The program describes itself as an indispensable community resource that channels children, especially at-risk or economically disadvantaged children, toward a bright and productive future and notes that it delivers cognitive, emotional, physical, and social developmental experiences in safe and nurturing environments largely in nature and the outdoors. Wilderness Works identifies six core values that guide its mission: Experiential Education, Character Development, Cultural Enrichment, Health & Nutrition, Community, and Ecological Awareness. Wilderness Works is a federally registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, and in 2018 documentary filmmaker Michiel Thomas followed the program into the high mountains of Colorado, chronicling the experience of three boys from tough life circumstances and how the transformational power of nature impacted their lives. Testimonials from participants describe looking forward to being reunited with friends at City Camp, overcoming a fear of heights with the Wilderness Works Girls Core Group at the Georgia Tech Climbing Tour, learning to ride a bicycle at City Camp and riding every weekend, hiking over 50 miles on the Appalachian Trail, spending a week on Cumberland Island and seeing the ocean for the first time, and enjoying the zip line at Camp Glisson as a favorite summer experience.
Last updated April 24, 2026.
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