The chaparral community of the Santa Monica mountains is a wonderful backyard for the greater Los Angeles basin. Students may spend a few days following Malibu creek from it's headwaters in Malibu Creek State Park to the estuary at Malibu Lagoon. There are also opportunities for a 100' rapell and a day on a challange course.
Malibu Creek State ParkFlowing for over twenty five miles before spilling into the Ocean, Malibu Creek is the principal water course of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Camp Gilmore / Mount CragsThese sister camps are located adjacent to Malibu Creek State Park, giving you two options for lodge based exploration of the Santa Monica Mountain region.
Shalom InstituteShalom institute offers expansive facilities that include an Olympic-size swimming pool, two outdoor amphitheaters, conference center, retreat house, archery and sports fields, ropes course, climbing wall, two waterfalls, nature center, miles of hiking trails, and much more.
Camp BloomfieldCamp Bloomfield sits along a beautiful sycamore lined canyon creek and has beautiful teaching, recreation, and amphitheater areas.
Naturalists at Large is a leading outdoor and environmental education group in California. Since 1985, we have provided outdoor education programs for tens of thousands of students from over two hundred schools, offering custom client designed trips, flexible dates and locations, commitment to safety and comfort in the outdoors, the wonder of nature and the importance of outdoor and experiential education.
