Adventure Links Summer Camp
Hemlock Overlook Regional Park, 13220 Yates Ford Rd, Clifton, VA 20124
About
Adventure Links Summer Camp offers youth adventure camps that include adventure day camps, overnight camps, and traveling teen expeditions around the East Coast. Campers take part in outdoor challenges such as a high ropes course and a group kayak trip, along with other high adventure activities, environmental activities, and team building activities. The program also runs group team building and outdoor education experiences such as environmental education programs, team building programs, and an Adventure Team Challenge.
• Ages: 8–17 years old
Founded in 1997, Adventure Links Summer Camp has offered summer camp, team building, outdoor education, and youth adventure camps for many years. The leadership team includes Founder and CEO Anna Birch, Founders and Co-Owners Anna and Austin Birch, and their daughters Autumn and Audrey Birch. Its programs include a leadership development course and other experiential programs that use incrementally more challenging itineraries for returning participants. The stated mission of Adventure Links’ programs is to challenge the individual, develop teamwork, and empower participants to protect the environment, while aiming to create positive learning cultures and stay at the forefront of outdoor educational practices. The organization states that its staff is motivated to educate youth in the outdoors and to create experiences that support individual and team development through high adventure, environmental, and team building activities during group programs and summer camps.
Adventure Links’ summer camp previously at Hemlock Overlook Regional Park is accredited by the American Camp Association, which is described as the nationally recognized certifying body for summer camps, and the organization states that its site, policies, and procedures meet or exceed ACA recommendations for summer camps. The program describes itself as having a deep understanding of the positive social, emotional, and mental outcomes of time spent in the outdoors and notes that the inherent benefits of its outdoor programming have supported individual and team development over the years.
Parent testimonials report that first-time campers had great experiences and were eager to return, that campers found the activities interesting and different from what they would learn elsewhere, and that some children came home talking nonstop about the many different activities they did. Other parents share that their children described the camp as “exhausting, tiring, fun, exhilarating, and a stamina workout,” and one camper told a parent that the cost of the camp “was worth it.”
Last updated January 18, 2026.
• Ages: 8–17 years old
Founded in 1997, Adventure Links Summer Camp has offered summer camp, team building, outdoor education, and youth adventure camps for many years. The leadership team includes Founder and CEO Anna Birch, Founders and Co-Owners Anna and Austin Birch, and their daughters Autumn and Audrey Birch. Its programs include a leadership development course and other experiential programs that use incrementally more challenging itineraries for returning participants. The stated mission of Adventure Links’ programs is to challenge the individual, develop teamwork, and empower participants to protect the environment, while aiming to create positive learning cultures and stay at the forefront of outdoor educational practices. The organization states that its staff is motivated to educate youth in the outdoors and to create experiences that support individual and team development through high adventure, environmental, and team building activities during group programs and summer camps.
Adventure Links’ summer camp previously at Hemlock Overlook Regional Park is accredited by the American Camp Association, which is described as the nationally recognized certifying body for summer camps, and the organization states that its site, policies, and procedures meet or exceed ACA recommendations for summer camps. The program describes itself as having a deep understanding of the positive social, emotional, and mental outcomes of time spent in the outdoors and notes that the inherent benefits of its outdoor programming have supported individual and team development over the years.
Parent testimonials report that first-time campers had great experiences and were eager to return, that campers found the activities interesting and different from what they would learn elsewhere, and that some children came home talking nonstop about the many different activities they did. Other parents share that their children described the camp as “exhausting, tiring, fun, exhilarating, and a stamina workout,” and one camper told a parent that the cost of the camp “was worth it.”
Last updated January 18, 2026.
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