Campers Graduating Grades 7-9
Program Costs
- Adventurer Dungeons and Dragons $660
- Adventurer Earth Skills $665
- Adventurer Island $670
- Adventurer Hike Beginner $675
- Adventurer Hike Intermediate $675
- Adventurer Canoe $680
- Adventurer Horse $750
The Adventurer programs focus on leadership development, and campers can take on exciting challenges and engage the natural world. Campers will participate in a well-rounded program, including a climbing wall, archery, zipline, high ropes course, and our giant swing! The Adventurer program focuses on developing confidence, teamwork and leadership skills. Campers in this program stay in canvas wall tents at our forest campsite for the week. All groups have access to full bathroom facilities in our washhouse.
Adventurer programs contain inclusive options for camp groups. Read More…
- All Males (4 campers in a tent x 2)
- All Females (4 campers in a tent x 2)
- Co-Ed (4 male & 4 female spots and each gender sleeps in separate areas/tents).
- All Gender (8 campers of any/all genders in any combination share an accommodation that includes a change room).
A wide game is played with the whole camp each day:
- Smugglers and Spies
- Survival
- Stones
Adventurer Program Options
Adventurer Dungeons and Dragons
The Adventurer programs focus on leadership development and allow campers to take on exciting challenges and engage the natural world. Read More…
In addition to participating in many favourite camp activities, this program features the experience of playing the popular game Dungeons & Dragons! D&D is a cooperative, strategy-based role-playing game set in a fantasy world. For a part of each day, campers will take on the role of a group of heroes made up of warriors, wizards, rogues, elves and all other manners of fantasy characters. This program is ideal for both new and experienced D&D players. Campers can expect equal time adventuring in D&D and playing outdoors doing camp activities such as our high ropes course.
Activity List:
- Dungeon & Dragons
- Sit Spots
- Climbing wall
- High Ropes and Zipline
- Giant Swing
- Drum Stalk
- Archery
Adventurer Earth Skills
Campers will acquire fire building, shelter building, outdoor cooking and safe knife use skills. Read More…
Learning bushcraft and how to live in harmony with nature will be skills you will use your whole life. Adventurer Earth Skills campers will get to test their new skills on various carving projects and enjoy cooking tasty bannock. Campers will spend one night in their own shelter that they make themselves.
Activity list:
- Earth Skills
- Sit Spots
- Climbing wall
- High Ropes and Zipline
- Giant Swing
- Drum Stalk
- Archery
Adventurer Island
The campers receive canoe training and skills that they can use for the rest of their lives! Read More…
Enjoy paddling a voyageur canoe (big canoe) on an overnight trip to our island. Have dinner over the campfire on the island and stay the night in tents. Check out the beautiful sunsets and enjoy a connection to nature. Adventure Island campers stay in our wall tents the rest of the week.
Activity List:
- Tandem Canoeing
- Island Overnight Voyageur Canoe Trip
- Archery
- Giant Swing
- High Ropes and Zipline
- Sit Spots
- Group Challenge
- Drum Stalk
- Team All Aboard
- Climbing wall
Adventurer Hike Beginner
Go hiking in the mountains at William Switzer Provincial Park and experience all the wonders of the natural world. Read More…
Enjoy a light, 3 hour hike down the Joachin Valley Trail, with lovely views of the mountains and foothills. This hike does not feature any elevation gain and is very fun for beginner hikers. At the end of a great day, there is a big cookout on the shore of Kelley’s Bathtub before they head back to camp tired and inspired. Challenge yourself and meet new friends!
Activity List:
- Switzer Hiking trip
- Giant Swing
- Climbing wall
- Team All Aboard
- Sit Spots
- Group Challenge
- High Ropes and Zipline
- Archery
- Drum Stalk
Adventurer Hike Intermediate
Take the path less travelled at William Switzer Provincial Park and experience all the wonders of the natural world. Read More…
Hike up to Athabasca Lookout, the best view in the region. Challenge yourself and meet new friends by taking on a engaging trail with moderate elevation gain! The intermediate hike is a great step up from our beginner hike program.
Activity List:
- Switzer Hiking trip
- Giant Swing
- Climbing wall
- Team All Aboard
- Sit Spots
- Group Challenge
- High Ropes and Zipline
- Archery
- Drum Stalk
Adventurer Canoe
Do you love water and spending time developing new skills? Read More…
You will get tandem canoe training on our lake before heading off to the mountains for a voyageur (12-person) canoe on Jarvis Lake in William Switzer Prov. Park. The scenery on this mountain lake is amazing. Enjoy a packed lunch out on the shire and a big supper back at base camp before heading back to camp for the night. A great trip for beginner and experienced paddlers.
Activity List:
- Tandem Canoe
- Switzer Canoe trip
- Giant Swing
- Climbing wall
- Team All Aboard
- Sit Spots
- High Ropes and Zipline
- Archery
- Drum Stalk
Adventurer Horse
This camp features a day trip to the Rockies near Brule for an amazing trail ride.
Saddle up with trained professional trail guides to learn the basics of riding. Enjoy a 3 hour horseback adventure in the rockies featuring stunning views and and many memories made.
Activity List:
- Go to a Horse Stable in the near the mountains for a day
- Archery
- Giant Swing
- High Ropes and Zipline
- Sit Spots
- Group Challenge
- Drum Stalk
- Team All Aboard
- Climbing wall
Accommodation
Lodges
All of our lodges have power, heat and access to full bathroom facilities. Lodges are a shared dormitory set up with bunk beds and a separate counsellor room.
Canvas Wall Tents
Our canvas wall tents are set up throughout our forest with close access to bathroom facilities. Each tent features 2 bunkbeds, hooks for hanging gear, and light sources. Counsellors are in a separate wall tent within the canvas wall tent village circle.
Rosie’s Roost
Rosie’s Roost is our rustic cabin just up the main Forest path. It has bunkbeds, cubbies, carpets, and space to chat with friends downstairs, and counsellor beds in the loft.
Wayfinders
Campers Graduating Grade 9
The Wayfinders Summer Leadership Week is open to all campers enrolled in Grade 9. When a camper enrolls in their final year as an Adventurer, they are welcome to apply for our Wayfinders program that summer. This program is the last week of the summer, August 18th-22rd, 2025. The Wayfinders Leadership Week is an immersive mentoring program that will help campers prepare to take that step from camper to staff member.
We will be taking applicants early February. All Wayfinder applicants can be added to the week 8 camp session for no fee ($0) when they register for their last year of Adventurers. Within a couple of weeks of registering, our leadership team will email all Wayfinders with more information on how to apply for the position. Each application will be processed and we will let each camper know if they have a spot in the following weeks. We can take 20 campers total for the Wayfinder program. If you have any questions please email us at [email protected]
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This program will introduce participants to the core values of being a member of the Camp Warwa staff team and the foundational leadership principles we employ. They will get to be mentored by an experienced counsellor and shadow and support a group of campers. They will get to help lead camp activities such as wide games and campfires, as well as see the behind-the-scenes operations of camp. Leadership Week campers will get time around the campfire hearing stories from staff and alumni, as well as participate in rites of passage such as the Blindfold Drum Stalk.
At the end of the program, Wayfinder campers will get to choose a Camp Name and be invited to apply to be a Junior Counselor for next summer.
Participants will stay the week in a lodge and get experience living and working as a team. A lot of this week is spent getting to know their peers and building connections with the camp leadership community.
There is no charge for the Wayfinders program, although campers must currently be in grade 9 and have previously attended Camp Warwa as a camper. Ideally, all participants in this program will come out for their last week of being an Adventurer in Sessions 1-7, then attend this program in Session 8.