The Wilderness Adventure

Welcome to the next great chapter of Live Oak Camp, The Wilderness Adventure.

These wilderness-based group trips allow returning campers to add to their summer camp experience by exploring the woods of North Carolina or Alabama in June 2021.

For many great kids across our country, big hurdles stand in the way of enjoying time in the great outdoors. The cost of technical gear alone limits access to camping, backpacking, and wilderness adventure travel. Organized multi-day trips offered by national providers typically cost $4,000 or more. This has a disproportionate impact on low-income families and young people of color.

On The Wilderness Adventure, our Live Oak team is committed to eliminating all barriers.  We are raising scholarship funds to make our summer adventure trips available to outstanding Live Oak campers, no matter their backgrounds. This way they can all feel the self-confidence that comes from summiting a peak, exploring a cave, or sleeping under a starry sky.

Our trip for 15-18 year-olds will explore Smokey Mountains National Park in North Carolina. It includes camping, orienteering, and whitewater rafting. 

Our two trips for 12-14 year-olds will explore the Sipsey National Wilderness Area in Alabama. It will involve hiking along rivers and exploring caves.

Interested in donating specific materials to The Wilderness Adventure?

$25 -  one headlamp. Help us see!!!

$50 -one water filter kit. Keep us hydrated in the mountains!!!

$100 - one backpacking stove. We are gonna be hungry!!!

$250 - one quarter of a scholarship. Get them into the woods!!!

$500 - one half of a scholarship. Keep them in the woods!!!

$1,000 - one camper scholarship. Give them the trip of a life time!!!

If you would prefer to give by check, please send to: 

Live Oak Camp 

1240 Moss Street 

New Orleans, LA 

70119