Summer Camps
NEW CAMPS FOR ALL AGES! Do your kids love wild animals? How about long summer days in the great outdoors, exploring open spaces and learning some science just for fun? This year the Ogden Nature Center is offering week-long day camps (with an overnighter under the stars), single day adventures, and a family campout for all ages. We have a variety of camps designed for ages 2-13 with openings for teenage camp assistants. Read more to learn about the exciting new mix of camps our nature-savvy team of environmental educators has planned for 2010!
Week-Long Nature Camps
Creepy Crawly Critters
Ages 7-9
July 12-16
8:30 am
to 3:30 pm
Mon. - Wed.
(after hours care available until 5 pm)
Thursday, July 15 is an overnight campout beginning at 6 pm and ending Friday morning at 8 am.
$150 members, includes t-shirt
$185 non-members, includes t-shirt
Would you like an up-close and personal encounter with the creepy crawly critters that are moving around the Nature Center? Join us for a week-long adventure discovering and investigating the flying, crawling, and slithering creatures that call Ogden Nature Center home. Dig through pond muck and search fields high and low for snakes, lizards, insects and more. Play games and enjoy activities that help us understand and appreciate the creepy crawly critters all around us.
Wild Things
Ages 7-9
June 21-25
8:30 am to 3:30 pm Mon. - Wed.
(after hours care available until 5 pm)
Thursday, June 24 is an overnight campout beginning at 6 pm and ending Friday morning at 8 am.
$150 members, includes t-shirt
$185 non-members, includes t-shirt
From forests to fields, the Ogden Nature Center is teeming with life. Journey through the ecosystems that make up this 152-acre nature preserve and take a peak at their inhabitants. Observe pond life under microscopes, catch insects in the field, travel off the beaten path in search of native species and secret spots. You'll also have the chance to meet some of our resident birds and reptiles up close. Explore and learn in a week-long camp designed to help you understand the importance of habitat.
Ages 9-12
July 26-30
8:30 am to 3:30 pm Mon. - Wed.
(after hours care available until 5 pm)
Thursday, July 29 is an overnight campout beginning at 6 pm and ending Friday
morning at 8 am
$150 members, includes t-shirt
$185 non-members, includes t-shirt
Come to the Ogden Nature Center this summer for a week-long version of our most popular school program "Living Close to the Land." Spend the week learning about Utah's first people and explore ways in which they depended on each other and nature as they sought food, built shelters, created tools and celebrated their lives. Play games, sleep in a tipi and design your own flute as you re-discover Utah's rich and inspiring history.
Nature Runs Wild
Ages 10-12
August 9-13
8:30 am to 3:30 pm Mon. - Wed.
(after hours care available until 5 pm)
Thursday, August 12 is an overnight campout beginning at 6 pm and ending Friday morning at 8 am
$150 members, includes t-shirt
$185 non-members, includes t-shirt
Take an ed-venture exploring the extreme power of nature and what the present can learn from the past. Look at the geological forces that helped create our local surroundings and recognize the potentially destructive power of these same forces in the forms of animals, earthquakes, floods, fires, tornadoes, disease, pollution and mutation. Learn safety and facts while debunking myths about the furry, slithering and flying friends in the great
outdoors. Determine if there is such a thing as preparedness and learn how nature adapts and changes as nature runs wild.
X-treme Eco-Expedition
Ages 11-13
June 14-18
8:30 am to 3:30 pm Mon. - Wed.
(after hours care available until 5 pm)
Thursday, June 17 is an overnight program beginning at 6 pm and ending Friday
morning at 8 am
$150 members - includes camp t-shirt
$185 non-members – includes camp t-shirt
Do you think you know what it takes to survive in the wild? Challenge yourself in the ultimate nature adventure. Learn how to read nature and prepare yourself for survival using basic first aid, map reading, fire starting and shelter building skills. Conquer the compass and GPS, then put your skills to the test in an all-out end of camp treasure hunt. Who will win in this wild adventure?
Single Day Adventures
Mud Puppies
Ages 2-3
(guardians must accompany)
Choose a date:
Tuesday, July 6
or Wednesday, July 21
9 am – 11 am
$10 parent/child pair -members
$12 parent/child pair -non-members
$5 for a camp t-shirt with registration
Get your hands dirty with some good old-fashion mud fun. Find out why soil is so important as we dig holes, find worms, make animal tracks and hear stories about animals in burrows. Dress for the mess!
Nature's Pallete
Ages 2-3
(guardians must accompany)
Choose a date:
Thursday, July 8 or Wednesday, August 4
9 am – 11 am
$10 parent/child pair -members
$12 parent/child pair -non-members
$5 for a camp t-shirt with registration
Dress in your not-so-best and join the Ogden Nature Center staff in a messy art exploration day. Play with paint, dirt, leaves, sticks and more as you use nature's pallete to create works of art.
Fun For Fledglings
Ages 4-6
June 28-July 2
Pick one day or come for the whole week.
9 am to 12 noon
• Monday, June 28 -- Rockin' Reptiles & Awesome Amphibians
• Tuesday, June 29 -- Bird Brains
• Wednesday, June 30 -- Nature's Brilliant Builders
• Thursday- July 1 -- Insects Inside Out
• Friday- July 2 -- Teeth, Talons and Tails $15/day or $65/week – members $18/day or $80/week – non-members
T-shirt included with week-long registration fee. T-shirts will cost an additional $5 for single day participants.
From snake scales to fox tails, campers will learn all about the animals and insects that
call the Ogden Nature Center home. Campers are sure to have a blast learning and visiting with the scaly, slippery and feathery friends that live at the Ogden Nature Center.
Nature's Invaders
Ages 7-9
Friday, August 6
8:30 am to 3:30 pm
(after hours care available until 5 pm)
$25 members
$30 non-members
$5 for a camp t-shirt with registration
Are there aliens at the Ogden Nature Center? Become a nature preserve species expert as you learn to identify what does and doesn't belong. Travel off the beaten path in search of all sorts of plants and animals that call the Nature Center home. Play games and participate in activities that help us understand why nature needs balance.
Eco-Art
Let nature be your nurturer and muse as you create art in an outdoor setting with a natural theme. Be inspired by your environment. Enjoy and replicate the natural world through drawing, painting, sculpture and installations. Each camp will have activities that are age
appropriate.
Ages 4-6
Tuesday, July 20
Choose a time:
9 am to 12 noon or 1 pm to 4 pm
$15 members
$18 non-members
$5 for a camp t-shirt with registration
Ages 7-9
Friday, July 9
8:30 am to 3:30 pm
(after hours care available until 5 pm)
$25 members
$30 non-members
$5 for a camp t-shirt with registration
Ages 10-13
Thursday, August 5
8:30 am to 3:30 pm
(after hours care available until 5 pm)
$25 members
$30 non-members
$5 for a camp t-shirt with registration
Over Night Family Camp
Songs, Skits, Stars, and S'mores
Friday, August 27 - Saturday, August 28
All ages welcome!
6 pm Friday to 9 am Saturday
$45 /family of 4 –members
$50/family of 4 –non-members
$5 each additional family member
Full payment is required at registration.
Camp under the stars with your family at the Ogden Nature Center's Dumke Picnic Grove. Take a guided hike through the Center and learn about the nocturnal creatures that inhabit the preserve at night. Songs, skits and s'mores will cap off the evening before you slumber under the stars. We will facilitate entertainment, drinks, s'mores and breakfast. Bring your own tent, sleeping bags, mess kit and a picnic dinner. Registration is required—space is limited to eight families.
Registration Details
Summer Camp Policies & Information
Reservations and Payments
- A $50 non-refundable deposit is required for all week-longcamps upon reservation. (not including Fledglings).
- A $10 non-refundable deposit is required for all single daycamps upon reservation.
- Full payment is required for all preschool and Fledglingcamps upon registration.
- Full camp payment is required by May 3, 2010.
- Requests for withdrawal two or more weeks prior to thescheduled program date will be honored except for the initial deposit, which will bewithheld for administrative fees.
- Withdrawals requested within two weeks of the scheduled programwill only be honored if the slot can be filled from a waiting list.
Extended Day Service
- After-camp service will be available from 3:30 pm to 5:00pm for all full day camps for an additional cost of $8 a day or $20 for three days. Sibling and Multi-camp Discounts
- A 20% discount will be given to families with two or morechildren enrolled in week-long camps or when one child is enrolled in two ormore week-long camps.
- A 10% discount will be given to families with two or morechildren enrolled in a day camp or when one child is enrolled in two or moreday camps.
Sorry, we will not be able to offer double discounts.
*** Please note: these discounts are IN ADDITION to Nature Center member discounts.
Photographs/video
The Ogden Nature Center reserves the right to use anyphotos/video of campers to promote our programs unless otherwise notified inwriting by parents.
Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships are available for thoseneeding assistance. For moreinformation please contact Stefanie Miller at 801-621-7595 or at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Registration
To register for camps, please call 801-621-7595
Camp sizes are limited to ensure a qualityexperience.Call in your reservation and paywith VISA or Mastercard, or come in person topay with cash or check. We cannotaccept reservations through the mail or without payment. We reserve the right to changeinstructors or cancel classes due to circumstances beyond our control, includingillness, inclementweather or low attendance. Ifclasses are canceled by the Nature Center, full refunds will be issued.
Camp Assistants
Do you enjoy being outdoors? Do you like working withchildren? Would you like to donate some of your time this summer? If so, the Ogden Nature Center is theplace for YOU! Come join our campassistant program and make some spectacular summer memories while givingservice to your community.
- Must be at least 12 years old to assist with the fledglingscamp and 14 years old for all other camps.
Volunteers will receive:
- On-the-job training as a camp assistant (great on collegeand job applications and resumes)
- A certificate of completion
- A letter of recommendation (if desired)
