The vision is to create a free wilderness adventure learning  experience for youth, a place for outdoor skills education and learning about our relationship with Nature that is an unknown experience for many young people today.  The natural world as a learning place is part of our American heritage, and is becoming more difficult to experience for today's city, television and computer game bound youth.  Alum Cove Wilderness Center is their place to get connected.

Alum Cove is a place to learn everything from wilderness survival skills to camping, hiking, backpacking, plant and animal habitat, land navigation and compass course skills, sustainable forestry practices, wild crafting for food and medicine, ecology and environmental awareness.  It is also a place for fun things like archery, outdoor photography or whatever interests you.

The Center is available to school groups, youth church groups, clubs, Scout troops, Cub packs and other groups or organizations who need a wilderness facility to provide experiential learning to boys and girls.  If you are a teacher, instructor or leader of a youth group, Alum Cove Wilderness Center is available to you and your group.

The Plan

Where do city kids have an opportunity to learn about the great out of doors, Nature, self-reliance and self-sufficiency, how food is grown, animals raised, how the natural world works and how humans and Nature live in cooperation rather than conflict?

The values and knowledge of living close to the land and close to Nature are vanishing with the current generation and will most certainly be lost to the next.  We would like to help change that.

We plan to build a central lodge with a kitchen, a classroom, and hands-on learning facilities.  There will be camp sites for tents, an archery range, a rifle range.

There are many miles of good logging trails in Alum Cove.  These will be excellent for hiking.  As we logged, with forethought, we pushed piles of brush for the wildlife to escape to and live in, left wildlife trees, and water-barred the skid roads to prevent erosion.  The main roads on the property will be maintained for emergency vehicles only.  No other motorized vehicles will be allowed.  Click here to view photos of the Alum Cove Wilderness Center property.

Alum Cove Wilderness Center is rich with wildlife.  We have deer, turkey, squirrel, raccoon, rabbit, fox, coyote and dozens of species of songbirds.

Please contact us to learn more about how we can work together with young people of all ages.
 

It's the time, not the money you spend with your kids
that will return you the greatest dividends. Don't wait, because your true treasure will be your memories.
Gregg Marble

"Our greatest natural resource: Our Youth"

"The two most power-filled words:
I can"