Washington Outdoor School
Washington Outdoor School (various outdoor sites in Upper County and Ellensburg, including Cooper River Estate, Roslyn Urban Forest, Paul Rogers Wildlife Park, McElroy Park, and CERSD Forest Border), Roslyn, WA 98941
About
Washington Outdoor School offers outdoor play where children can play in the creek, build forts, and play hide and seek. Activities also include using tools, field games, climbing up and down steep grades, climbing pine and fruit trees, and building willow tree forts. Children also explore aspen groves, run on trails and in fields, lay in the sun, play and slide in the snow, play in shallow water, race boats made of bark, use an outdoor playground with logs for balance beams and rocks to jump off of, make snowmen, and climb fruit trees.
• Ages: 3–17 years old
Washington Outdoor School’s mission is to cultivate a child's sense of wonder and foster a sense of stewardship through immersion in the natural world. The program includes interacting with nature to encourage a sense of place, programs year-round in all types of weather, equal access to outdoor adventures, and a focus on stewardship of the natural world. The Director is Sibyl Maer-Fillo. The program relies on community partnerships and donors to support its programs.
Teacher Ruth describes one site as an “outdoor paradise” with a creek, cattails, willows, a grass maze, and many birds, deer, insects, garter snakes, and diverse invertebrate water species. Teacher Carlie describes another area as “nature's sanctuary” with tall pine and cedar trees, fungus, moss, nurse trees, large puddles, and space to build forts, play hide and seek, use tools, and play field games. Teacher Shannon notes that the Roslyn Urban Forest terrain has steep grades that children climb up and down. Teacher Raychel calls Paul Rogers Wildlife Park “a gem in every season,” with pine trees for climbing, willow trees for forts, aspen groves, trails for running, ponds with frogs and snails in some seasons, many bird species, wildflowers, butterflies, open grassy meadows for laying in the sun, winter snow for playing and sliding, and cattails. Teacher Carlie describes McElroy Park as a place with a creek, pond, algae, cattails, frogs, sometimes ducks, cracking willow trees to climb, shallow water alcoves to play in, worms, bark boats raced on rushing water, an outdoor playground with logs and rocks, a field for running and making snowmen, and fruit trees to climb.
Last updated June 13, 2026.
• Ages: 3–17 years old
Washington Outdoor School’s mission is to cultivate a child's sense of wonder and foster a sense of stewardship through immersion in the natural world. The program includes interacting with nature to encourage a sense of place, programs year-round in all types of weather, equal access to outdoor adventures, and a focus on stewardship of the natural world. The Director is Sibyl Maer-Fillo. The program relies on community partnerships and donors to support its programs.
Teacher Ruth describes one site as an “outdoor paradise” with a creek, cattails, willows, a grass maze, and many birds, deer, insects, garter snakes, and diverse invertebrate water species. Teacher Carlie describes another area as “nature's sanctuary” with tall pine and cedar trees, fungus, moss, nurse trees, large puddles, and space to build forts, play hide and seek, use tools, and play field games. Teacher Shannon notes that the Roslyn Urban Forest terrain has steep grades that children climb up and down. Teacher Raychel calls Paul Rogers Wildlife Park “a gem in every season,” with pine trees for climbing, willow trees for forts, aspen groves, trails for running, ponds with frogs and snails in some seasons, many bird species, wildflowers, butterflies, open grassy meadows for laying in the sun, winter snow for playing and sliding, and cattails. Teacher Carlie describes McElroy Park as a place with a creek, pond, algae, cattails, frogs, sometimes ducks, cracking willow trees to climb, shallow water alcoves to play in, worms, bark boats raced on rushing water, an outdoor playground with logs and rocks, a field for running and making snowmen, and fruit trees to climb.
Last updated June 13, 2026.
Is this your business? There is no cost, but you will be asked to sign up or log in.