Students venture into the Atlantic (by board and by foot) on Wilderness Kids' trip to Assateague Island National Seashore in June. Wilderness Kids is in the midst of its busiest summer yet, and it started with a 3-day, 2-night camping trip to Assateague Island National Seashore! 9 students and 3 staff members piled into “The Vanta Ray” (WKA’s trusted 15-passenger van) with all the necessary camping gear for a good time, and headed east until they arrived at the Atlantic Ocean. Students...

Left to right: Wilderness Kids students Alice and Helena, along with staff member Matt, enjoy a refreshing snack of salted watermelon on a hot afternoon in Prince William Forest. This past weekend, middle school students from Wilderness Kids embarked on the program's first camping trip of 2026. The group ventured out to nearby Prince William Forest, the largest protected natural space in the greater D.C. metropolitan area. With 15,000 acres of forest and streams filled with plenty of natural...

Students and staff pose in front of a large "flowstone", created gradually by mineral-rich water trickling down the walls in Silers Cave near Martinsburg, West Virginia. On Saturday, April 11th, a small group of high schoolers ventured out to West Virginia for a unique opportunity to explore a “wild cave”! These caves are different from many more popular, commercially visited caves in the area, because they have been preserved and undeveloped, with the intent to maintain their natural beauty,...