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Crystalaire Adventures

MULTI-DAY  WILDERNESS TRIPS & ADVENTURE PROGRAM FOR TEENS & KIDS

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Explore the outdoors this summer with Crystalaire. We are not your ordinary summer camp – our program focuses on creating an inclusive leadership & team building experience that empowers campers to learn and explore. Our programs includes camping, hiking, biking, sailing,  kayaking and other outdoor activities in the Midwest’s most beautiful locations

Crystalaire Adventures

Where You Create your Own Experience!

Multi-day wilderness adventures in the Midwest’s most beautiful locations. Explore your identity, build community and gain valuable “life skills through outdoor skills!”

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What parents and participants say

[My son] has actually jumped on the bike repair and supply volunteer work for local charities. His sister is doing a school project to help raise funds for supplies to repair the bikes and get helmets, locks, and lights for recipients. This all started because of your [program] last year.

-Parent, Build Your Own Bike

"My daughter talks a lot about the fellowships between participants and being able to share with the trip leaders. She also loved the fact that the leaders gave them the opportunities to lead. What I loved most was the fact that they brought the campers to their level - as peers."
- Parent, Cojourn

“I think we’re different from other programs because we minimize the barriers between guides and participants. We tread the line of partners and leaders, and that’s where the magic happens.”

- Cal, guide 2018-19

Our Blog

On Identity Based Leadership

On Identity Based Leadership

November 9, 2016 2520

If you’ve been on a Crystalaire trip you know we talk about a lot of boxes. We draw them in the sand, lay them out in rocks and twigs, or draw them on small portable whiteboards. And then, often, we break them. It’s part of what we call “identity-based dynamics,” and it’s our own twist

Home Visits

Home Visits

January 30, 2018 1549

Spring 2018 Home Visits This spring, we are working with Crystalaire Families to host “home visits” all over the midwest. This has proven, by far, to be our most effective means of reaching new families. For those who haven’t hosted or been to a home visit in the past, here’s how it typically goes: We

Creativity over Conformity

Creativity over Conformity

October 22, 2016 1763

Almost three months ago to the day I woke up, brushed my teeth, and put my clothes on backwards. It was Reverse Day, a camp-wide, camper-created theme day. We started our day with Evening Program, ate a delicious breakfast of waffles around 6:00 p.m., and ended it all with Morning Program as the sun was

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Meet Our Staff

Charlie Burnett
Charlie Burnett
Director
Tanner Ruegg
Tanner Ruegg
Guide
Derik Ng
Derik Ng
Guide
Carol Gross
Carol Gross
Guide
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Our Partners

Our sister programs, Camp Lookout and Camp Carvela, operate under the same philosophical umbrella as Crystalaire. What we do in the wilderness, they do in a residential setting. Many trip participants start with a camp session but continue their experience through Crystalaire Adventures. Both camps also offer add-on adventures, meaning campers can participate in a session at Camp Lookout or Carvela, then participate in a two-night Crystalaire Adventure.

For more information or to view the camps’ complete summer schedule visit Camp Carvela here and Camp Lookout here.

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