Wilderness Works

Wilderness Works offers Day Camp, City Camp, Summer Camp, Core Camp, and Field Camp. Activities include enrichment-based field trips to area venues, parks, and museums; swimming, hiking, canoeing, camping, zip-lines, cabin life, counselor and campfire fellowship; and overnight field trips and service projects focused particularly on the elderly and homeless.

Programs

• Day Camp — Children · During school season months; weekends · Provides enrichment-based field trips to area venues, parks, and museums; includes learning experiences, great meals, and fun with friends. Brief respite from social isolation.
• City Camp — Elementary school aged children · Multiple weekends across school season months; Friday overnight stay
• Summer Camp — Atlanta-area children, especially economically disadvantaged and homeless children · Multiple sessions of week-long summer camp · Includes swimming, hiking, canoeing, camping, zip-lines, cabin life, counselor and campfire fellowship, and spiritual uplift.
• Core Camp — Middle-school aged children · Monthly · Selective program requiring an invitation and outstanding behavior and attitude. Includes overnight field trips and service projects focused particularly on the elderly and homeless.
• Field Camp — Campers after years in Core Camp

At a glance

• Ages: 8–18 years old
• General schedule: Wilderness Works provides programs year-round and complements school calendars by providing a powerful alternative especially on weekends, school holidays, and during summer months.

About the provider

Wilderness Works has served the community since 1997. The program provides children time in safe and nurturing environments, largely in nature and the outdoors, and delivers cognitive, emotional, physical, and social developmental experiences to the children served. It serves primarily elementary aged children and gives highest priority to either homeless children or those facing significant economic disadvantage.

Children in Wilderness Works programming are quite eager to return to the next camp weekend or field trip. Program leaders identify campers that are ready for City Camp and spot potential campers for summer camp opportunities.

What families say

“I look forward to being reunited with my friends at City Camp!” — Christiana Gates

“I spent a week on Cumberland Island and saw the ocean for the first time and also 15 different species of animal life!” — Emmanuel Harrell

“I hiked over 50 miles from Tennessee to Cherokee on the Appalachian Trail!” — Cliff Chalmers

Last updated November 9, 2026.