A week of art, adventure, and play on the north Oregon coast!

Give your child a week outdoors, making art in collaboration with the natural setting around us. Kids will spend their days at Alder Creek Farm (owned by the Lower Nehalem Community Trust). They’ll be roaming the forest and doing hands-on art projects. Mornings are for art classes, and afternoons are for play and outdoor exploring. On Friday, there's a beach day at Nehalem Bay State Park to close out the week.

Kids are dropped off in the morning at NCRD, where they circle up as a group and walk together to the farm, about 45 minutes through the countryside with camp staff leading the way. Then they’ll have an art class led by Hoffman Center guest teaching artists. Projects change through the week and might include things like nature journaling, cyanotype prints made with sunlight, drawing foraged plants, etc.

Afternoons shift outdoors with the Lower Nehalem Community Trust: habitat exploration along Alder Creek, scavenger hunts, water-quality testing, field games in the meadow, and visits from local wildlife and ecology experts. At the end of the afternoon, the group walks back to NCRD for afternoon pickup.

Drop-off and pickup at NCRD in Nehalem. Drop-off is at 8:30 AM, and pickup is at 3:45 PM.

North Coast Explorers Camp is a collaboration of the Hoffman Center for the Arts, the Lower Nehalem Community Trust, and NCRD.

20 campers per session. This camp is now full.