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Summer Camps

Tualatin Hills Nature Center • Cooper Mountain Nature Park • Jenkins Estate • Camps • 503-629-6350

Camp Green • Ages 10-13 yrs Local Harvest
Get ready for some dirty fingernails this week as we learn about
Camp Green provides opportunities to delve into the natural planting, harvesting, and sustaining healthy soil and crops. We will
world in which we live. We'll do science-based activities and enjoy eating some of the delicious fruits and vegetables grown
explore how our daily lives intertwine with the environment. Some here in the Pacific Northwest.
camp themes will repeat over the summer; camps with the same Field Trips: Local farm and market.
theme will have the same content. Bring lunch, drinking water, two 7/15-7/19 M-F 8am-5pm 10-13 yrs NP17304
snacks, and a backpack daily. Tualatin Hills Nature Center ID/AP: $335 OD: $418.75
Camp meets and picks up daily at the Tualatin Hills Nature Center
but will travel off-site to a local THPRD park most days. Campers Rockin’ Out
must be dropped off by 8:45 am and will be back by 4:00 pm for Take a closer look at how earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic
pick-up. This camp also incorporates local field trips to regional activity have created our landscape here in the Pacific Northwest.
locations. Hunt for rocks and minerals to get a clear understanding of the
A $30 deposit option is available for this camp. See the Camp geologic history of Oregon and our planet.
Deposits and Balances box on page 81 for details. Field Trips: Rice Rock Museum; Willamette Mission State Park
7/22-7/26 M-F 8am-5pm 10-13 yrs NP17305
H2OMG! Tualatin Hills Nature Center ID/AP: $335 OD: $418.75
Dip into the science of water by visiting many local water features:
streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Trace the path of a water Eco-Art
droplet from the high reaches of Mt. Hood to the coast. Along Naturalists have utilized art to capture nature through
the way, learn about the water cycle, water chemistry, and the observation, illustration, and photography. At the same time,
creatures living in and around water. No camp on 6/19. nature has sparked artists' creativity for centuries through realism
Field Trips: Water Treatment Facility; Wildwood Recreation Site in Mt. and abstraction. This week, let's step into the role of artists and
Hood Wilderness naturalists and find whatever sparks your art!
6/17-6/21 M,T,Th,F 8am-5pm 10-13 yrs NP17300 Field Trips: Portland Art Museum; Columbia Gorge
Tualatin Hills Nature Center ID/AP: $268 OD: $335 7/29-8/2 M-F 8am-5pm 10-13 yrs NP17306
Tualatin Hills Nature Center ID/AP: $335 OD: $418.75
Eco-Art
Naturalists have utilized art to capture nature through H2OMG!
observation, illustration, and photography. At the same time, Dip into the science of water by visiting many local water features:
nature has sparked artists' creativity for centuries through realism streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Trace the path of a water
and abstraction. This week, let's step into the role of artists and droplet from the high reaches of Mt. Hood to the coast. Along
naturalists and find whatever sparks your art! the way, learn about the water cycle, water chemistry, and the
Field Trips: Portland Art Museum; Columbia River Gorge creatures living in and around water.
6/24-6/28 M-F 8am-5pm 10-13 yrs NP17301 Field Trips: Water Treatment Facility; Wildwood Recreation Site in the
Tualatin Hills Nature Center ID/AP: $335 OD: $418.75 Mt. Hood Wilderness
8/5-8/9 M-F 8am-5pm 10-13 yrs NP17307
Magical Oregon Tualatin Hills Nature Center ID/AP: $335 OD: $418.75
Magic is all around us! We will explore the magical and mythical
creatures thought to roam these parts and visit some of the most Brilliant Birds
extraordinary places in Oregon. No camp on 7/4 and 7/5. Birds are some of the most intelligent species on the planet. They
Field Trips: Silver Falls State Park can solve puzzles, use tools, navigate, and create complex music!
7/1-7/3 M-F 8am-5pm 10-13 yrs NP17302 This week, we’ll look for everything from tiny hummingbirds to
Tualatin Hills Nature Center ID/AP: $201 OD: $251.25 large birds of prey and learn about their clever behaviors.
Field Trips: Jackson Bottom Wetlands; Oxbow Regional Park
Brilliant Birds 8/12-8/16 M-F 8am-5pm 10-13 yrs NP17308
Birds are some of the most intelligent species on the planet. They Tualatin Hills Nature Center ID/AP: $335 OD: $418.75
can solve puzzles, use tools, navigate, and create complex music!
This week, we’ll look for everything from tiny hummingbirds to Magical Oregon
large birds of prey and learn about their clever behaviors. Magic is all around us! We will explore the magical and mythical
Field Trips: Jackson Bottom Wetlands; Oxbow Regional Park creatures thought to roam these parts and visit some of the most
7/8- 7/12 M-F 8am-5pm 10-13 yrs NP17303 extraordinary places in Oregon.
Tualatin Hills Nature Center ID/AP: $335 OD: $418.75 Field Trips: Tillamook State Forest; Silver Falls State Park
8/19-8/23 M-F 8am-5pm 10-13 yrs NP17309
Tualatin Hills Nature Center ID/AP: $335 OD: $418.75

Fees: ID/AP = User is in district or has paid an out-of-district assessment, OD = Out of district (no assessment paid)
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