Get a hands-on experience with care, maintenance and handling of CNC's living collections. Daily swimming at Taughannock Falls. Enrollment is limited to 14 youth per session. Take the challenge with these intensive outdoor experiences and hands-on wilderness survival skills training. These programs are based at Cayuga Nature Center and the Nature Center's Hammond Hill site in Dryden.
Transportation is offered to both sites during most programs for an additional fee.
Basic Explorer Program is a pre-requisite for any Advanced Explorer Program. We require that a camper retake Basic Explorer as a skills refresher if more than one summer has passed before going into an Advanced Explorer Program. Other pre-requisites are described in detail in the program description. This summer we are offering young men an opportunity to work with some of our experienced male staff in order to observe and learn about the way men can impact the environment and the world they live in through positive methods of communication and interaction with others and the earth. We believe this program will offer challenges to young men's which will result in a greater self-confidence while helping them become more sensitive to the environment and world around them.