Glacier Peak Institute Youth Outdoor Programs
Glacier Peak Institute Summer Adventure Camp (multiple sites: Moran State Park, Deception Pass State Park, North Cascades National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Pearrygin State Park, Baker Lake), 1405 Emens Avenue North, Darrington, WA 98241
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Glacier Peak Institute Youth Outdoor Programs include activities such as biking, hiking, rafting, canoeing, backpacking, swimming, fishing, exploring the beach, building campfires, and practicing Leave No Trace principles. Specific trips and outings include a Bike Ride to Wellman Basin, a Bike and Hike to Brown's Creek, Rafting and Floating the Sauk River, Crabbing at Port Susan, Canoe and Camp at Baker Lake, Three Day Backpacking to Round Lake, Canoeing at Burnaby Slough, and canoe water polo.
• Schedule: Includes options such as a Three Day Backpacking to Round Lake session
Glacier Peak Institute helps young people discover their potential through place-based, hands-on outdoor learning and skill-building experiences. Its youth outdoor programs feature outdoor adventures, hands-on projects, and cultural exchanges, along with immersive outdoor after-school and summer programs. STEM lesson plans are developed with teachers from the Darrington School District, and youth learn about infrastructure and science through hands-on projects that contribute to ecological and economic regeneration of their community. Programs focus on empowering rural youth, and students are encouraged to think creatively, work collaboratively, live sustainably, take ownership of environmental projects, and impact their community.
Glacier Peak Institute was formed as a direct response to the deadly SR 530 Mudslide that devastated the Darrington community on March 22, 2014. Glacier Peak Institute is a certified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Its logo design incorporates youth artwork from Darrington School District students and includes Glacier Peak in the background, people caring for and playing on the landscape, snow, rain, and shine to show service in all weather, and a forest shown as both young and new.
Glacier Peak Institute works with community groups to get young people exploring local forests, including Darrington 4-H, Concrete Boys & Girls Club, Concrete Farm to School, The Concrete Prevention Posse, and the Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Youth Program. Glacier Peak Institute partners with local tribes, universities, nonprofits, and environmental groups, and it lives on the lands of the Sauk-Suiattle, Stillaguamish, Tulalip, Swinomish, Upper Skagit, and more tribal nations. For questions, families are directed to contact Julie Stone at [email protected].
Last updated June 12, 2026.
• Schedule: Includes options such as a Three Day Backpacking to Round Lake session
Glacier Peak Institute helps young people discover their potential through place-based, hands-on outdoor learning and skill-building experiences. Its youth outdoor programs feature outdoor adventures, hands-on projects, and cultural exchanges, along with immersive outdoor after-school and summer programs. STEM lesson plans are developed with teachers from the Darrington School District, and youth learn about infrastructure and science through hands-on projects that contribute to ecological and economic regeneration of their community. Programs focus on empowering rural youth, and students are encouraged to think creatively, work collaboratively, live sustainably, take ownership of environmental projects, and impact their community.
Glacier Peak Institute was formed as a direct response to the deadly SR 530 Mudslide that devastated the Darrington community on March 22, 2014. Glacier Peak Institute is a certified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Its logo design incorporates youth artwork from Darrington School District students and includes Glacier Peak in the background, people caring for and playing on the landscape, snow, rain, and shine to show service in all weather, and a forest shown as both young and new.
Glacier Peak Institute works with community groups to get young people exploring local forests, including Darrington 4-H, Concrete Boys & Girls Club, Concrete Farm to School, The Concrete Prevention Posse, and the Kulshan Creek Neighborhood Youth Program. Glacier Peak Institute partners with local tribes, universities, nonprofits, and environmental groups, and it lives on the lands of the Sauk-Suiattle, Stillaguamish, Tulalip, Swinomish, Upper Skagit, and more tribal nations. For questions, families are directed to contact Julie Stone at [email protected].
Last updated June 12, 2026.
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