Wildwood Outdoor Education Center Company Information

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Profile:

Wildwood Outdoor Education Center provides outdoor education, team building, and individual skill development to children and adults from the Kansas City metro area. Wildwood is unique, in almost every aspect of being an outdoor education center and a residential camp setting. Wildwood uses current best practices in: outdoor education, adventure education and residential camps.

More than 5,500 children and 500 adults experience Wildwood each year. Wildwood programs include:

Outdoor School - outdoor education programming during the school year

Adventure Challenge & Corporate Challenge - mental and physical challenges for adults and kids that focus on team building and problem solving

Summer Learning - outdoor education targeting urban children

Summer Adventure - residential camp & outdoor education

Wildwood offers the opportunity to build esteem, develop essential life and interpersonal skills and maintain/increase academic knowledge in a safe environment—and have fun doing it!

At Wildwood, outdoor education, experiential education and adventure education is serious business. Our outstanding programs are one of a kind in the region and utilized by schools, businesses and families throughout the region. We attribute much of our success to our dedicated, professional staff. Full-time directors live at Wildwood year round. This commitment to the Wildwood Experience ensures the highest quality programming and facilities.



Our instructors receive extensive training in outdoor education, group facilitation, safety and first aid. Certified teachers and college students in the field of education, recreation, social welfare and other youth related fields, join the staff during the operating months of programming.



For more information about one of the Wildwood programs contact the Wildwood office at 913-757-4500.